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October 5, 2015
Pinterest Expands Its E-commerce Program
The social network has found that allowing customers to shop on Pinterest pages is a very, very profitable idea.
Pinterest is expanding its Buyable Pins platform in a big way. The e-commerce project, which gives customers the ability to buy items on Pinterest without leaving the site, just picked up tens of thousands of merchants in a single swoop. In a blog post, Pinterest announced that Buyable Pins can now be integrated into e-commerce platforms like Bigcommerce, IBM Commerce, and eBay-owned Magento. Pinterest is also debuting Buyable Pins for a slew of new merchants, like Bloomingdale's and DVF—all of which are supported by its launch partners, Demandware and Shopify.
Today in Tabs: The News From Dorking & Crawley
Spoopy! Creppy!
a.footnote {vertical-align: super; font-size: 0.8em; text-decoration: none;}It's October! And I wasn't going to start with spooky Halloween Tabs this early but… gestures vaguely at the moon. A NYC cleanup crew found a human skeleton inside a couch in Brooklyn, and True Detective Season Three immediately broke out. In Michigan, James Bristle (you know, the farmer?) discovered a nearly complete wooly mammoth skeleton that showed signs of human predation. This refrigerator is DEFINITELY NOT INFESTED WITH BATS. And a swarm of flying daddy longlegs are reportedly menacing the hilariously named English villages of Dorking and Leatherhead. Appropriately, the same article also appears in the even more aptonymic Crawley News.
American Apparel Files For Bankruptcy
After months of financial woes and legal disputes with former CEO Dov Charney, American Apparel has finally filed for Chapter 11 protection.
As recently foreshadowed by the falling sales recorded in its second-quarter earnings report, American Apparel has filed for bankruptcy. The embattled clothing brand has faced mounting financial and legal troubles over the past year, in part due to lawsuits brought against American Apparel by ousted CEO Dov Charney.
MasterCard: Retailers Can Use "Pay-By-Selfie" Starting 2016
Customers can snap a selfie to verify their identity while shopping online and in stores.
MasterCard is rolling out a "Pay By Selfie" feature that allows retailers to verify an online shopper's identity using a photo of their face. The new functionality will be available to stores and e-commerce services in the United States beginning in the middle of 2016, and in the rest of the world in 2017.
Twitter Officially Names Jack Dorsey As CEO
Along with cementing Dorsey's stint as CEO, Twitter promoted sales head Adam Bain to chief operating officer.
Twitter on Monday confirmed last week's rumors that it has named cofounder Jack Dorsey 
New Comedy Web Series Looks At Life In Israel Through Twisted American Eyes
Hamburger Hummus stars vets of Workaholics, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Office, and is created by an ad agency.
Over the last decade, Israel has experienced a technology boom. Government data shows that high-tech goods and services account for 12.5% of the country's GDP and half its industrial exports, and it leads the OECD in percentage of GDP spent on science and tech R&D. A new comedy web series aimed at millennials is hoping to illuminate this side of life in Israel through a ridiculous collection of American bloggers.
Tesla's Model X And The Mainstreaming Of The Electric Car
While Teslas are exclusive status symbols today, they're also making electric cars part of American life.
If you can say one thing about Tesla, it's that they're hypemasters. The auto company's headquarters in Fremont, California was home to the unveiling of their much-delayed Model X SUV last Tuesday. As CEO Elon Musk MC'ed the event, several SUVs made impossibly sharp turns onstage, showed off their Delorean-style doors, and even hauled an Airstream trailer onstage. Audience members were a mixture of techy auto geeks (team jackets from Google's self-driving car program were very much in attendance) and the Bay Area's upper crust. I spotted at least two very well-dressed attendees making snide remarks to the hired catering help.
Why Adobe's CreativeSync Is So Much More Than Just Dropbox For Designers
CreativeSync will allow Adobe to bind thousands of mobile apps together into one beautiful, cross-design suite, with Creative Cloud at its center.
There was a time when professionals did all of their work on a desktop PC running a marquee Adobe app: Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign, or Illustrator. But that time is coming to an end, and Adobe knows it. Mobile, and its massive, diverse app ecosystem, is putting a dent into Adobe's dominance. Designers who work on mobile devices today are more likely to do so using a couple dozen apps that do one thing well, than one mega-app that tries to do everything.
A Converted Warehouse Meets College In This Fancy Student Residence
Nicest dorms ever.
What if, instead of spending your freshman year in a cramped, 12-by-19-foot dorm room, you spent it sprawled out in a sunny bedroom full of salvaged furniture? That's exactly what the 200 study abroad students who attend the recently opened CIEE Global Institute in Berlin have to look forward to. The school's swank student residence complex was converted from an old factory for car radio buttons in the city's trendy Kreuzberg district.
Watch This Paralyzed Man Walk Using Own Legs, Connected By Wires Directly To His Brain
After a spinal cord injury, there's usually no hope to walk again. Now that's all changed.
Researchers at University of California, Irvine have successfully used a paraplegic man's own legs as thought-controlled prostheses. By bypassing damaged nerves with wires, the test subject—a 26-year-old-man—walked almost 12 feet on his own legs.
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