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"Several companies have successfully built cooperative marketing structures online. Companies such as OwnerIQ, for example, enable online retailers like Crutchfield to retarget people who visit the web sites of electronics manufacturers, offering the flatscreen TVs they were just studying - at a discount. When it comes to driving brick-and-mortar sales from online, though, Facebook appears to offer the best solution yet. CPG brands gladly pay for retail circulars to help sell their products, and there's reason to believe they could buy Facebook advertising to drive consumers into retail locations. one company with which we work, ShopLocal, puts a retailer's circular content into a database, including images and all the sale prices and details. In so doing it makes local data portable and extendable, so retailers can build online-only pages of the circular, or utilize QR codes to generate more content than exists in the print world."

Instagram images are not displaying on Twitter cards as of Sunday afternoon. Instead, users are being shown an empty white space where a photo should live. A link to the Instagram photo is still included.

"News agency Reuters reports that Staples in the U.S. agreed to install Amazon Lockers. Similar to BufferBox, Amazon's service sends customers an email with a pickup code they enter on a touchscreen to open the self-serve locker containing the package. Shoppers have three days from delivery to pick up the package."

"People. Listen. 3D printing is not just 2D printing with another dimension added on. Yes, the names are very similar, but their uses are not even remotely analogous. We may reasonably conclude, therefore, that 1) 3D printing will not recapitulate the history of 2D printing, 2) as soon as you make an argument along those lines you lose all credibility and look like an idiot."

The Doritos #BoldStage will be dependent on social media activity, and the more activity there is, the better the show will be. Three up-and-coming musical artists (Devin Miles, Seth Sentry, and Snow Tha Product) will compete to determine who will open for the headliners: LL COOL J, Public Enemy, Ice Cube, and Doug E. Fresh.

Demand Media, a digital content firm that owns eHow and Cracked.com, has announced its acquisition of Creativebug today, a website for instructional videos on various arts and crafts. Part of effort to expand within e-learning category

Simon Berry is piggybacking on Coca-Cola's distribution system to bring life-saving medicine to the places that need it most. You can buy a Coke pretty much anywhere on Earth. Thanks to a vast network of local suppliers, Coca-Cola has almost completely solved distribution, getting its product into every nook and cranny where commerce reaches.

It should come as little surprise to industry observers that Facebook plans to unveil both a rich, skinned version of its Android app at a press event tomorrow, along with the first hardware to run that experience out of the box. The phone, by HTC, is appropriately named "First"-appropriate because of its status as the première phone to undergo Facebookification and its similarity to the name of HTC's newest flagship, the one. More screenshots follow

On June 20, a source says Facebook will unveil that Instagram, its popular photo-sharing app, will begin to let people also take and share short videos. Call it the Vine effect.

Pretty negative review, but yay more affordable wearable tech?

"Facebook is making quick progress in growing its mobile advertising business, according to major ad platform Kenshoo. It sees 20% of all Facebook ad spend going to mobile. That's a big boost from October when Facebook said 14% of its ad revenue came from mobile. Meanwhile, 71% of Facebook ad spend targeted to mobile phones goes to Android, further proving Facebook has to focus more on Google's OS."

e-ink slap bracelet?! Still awaiting Pebble hands on.

LG gets on the wristband/activity tracker train

Buy a CD, get the digital version free. Is this potentially the start of a trend? Can I get an eBook if I buy the hard copy?

The social network is launching partner categories: some 500 "unique groups", with more to come, which are descriptors (one example: "buyers of children's cereals") that match up with relevant people among Facebook's 1 billion+ users. Facebook says that advertisers can "futher refine" the categories by using other targeting options it already offers.

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