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January 6, 2015
Coach Acquires Stuart Weitzman For $574 Million
In its first ever acquisition, the 73-year-old bag maker bought a luxury footwear brand.
Coach is ringing in the New Year by acquiring luxury footwear brand Stuart Weitzman for $574 million—the 73-year-old bag maker's first ever acquisition.
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A New Website Lets You Draw With Emoji
Make some #art.
A fun little site called emoji.ink has arrived, letting users to draw with any of the 722 currently available Unicode emoji. Drag the emoji around the screen and hundreds of stars, hearts, crying cats or alien heads will fall in your wake. You can even change the size of the emoji, which can lead to some pretty trippy results, perfect for the invite to your next net art opening (or even for making the art itself)! And there are already some fun results cropping up on Tumblr. Have fun; enjoy emoji responsibly.
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Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario Fights The Fights Worth Fighting
Patagonia tells customers not to buy its clothes and gives away earnings. Somehow, the result is profit and respect.
Before Patagonia, you spent 25 years in corporate finance, working in a variety of places, from private equity to tech. Yet at some point you felt like your personal values and your professional work were in conflict. Was there a particular moment when this misalignment came to a head?
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This Website Lets You Chat With Your Future Self
In the future, you will be possibly living in a treehouse. If you say so, to yourself.
Forget your plans for 2015. A wise person would plan farther out than a year. But what is it going to be like in 20 years? If only there was some way to ask.
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This Calendar Grows A Beard All Year Long
Don't grow a beard. Buy this calendar instead.
There are a few unwritten rules that wise people follow in their lives, of which "Never go with a hippie to a second location" may be the best known. "Never encourage a man with a beard" is another good one: What might start out innocently enough as a compliment to a friend's five o'clock shadow will almost invariably spiral out of control into a thick, smelly nest that has swallowed his entire face.
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R.I.P. Stained Glass?
Stained glass is no longer a mainstay of church architecture. Could glassy skyscrapers resurrect this dying art?
Stained glass is going out the window. The ornate, elegant stained-glass window designs that for centuries have been an integral part of religious architecture don't mesh with more modern worship spaces, which may include screen, slide shows, and video displays. As people's preferences in religious architecture change, the industry that supplied those colorful works of window art is on the decline, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Oculus Users Can Toggle Between VR And The Real World With A Single Gesture
Leap Motion's controller provides an intuitive new function.
Leap Motion's tiny, sleek sensor lets you use hand motions to control all types of devices and situations. One of these is virtual reality: the company designed a mount which lets the motion tracker attach easily to the front of an Oculus Rift headset, allowing for intuitive control of VR apps via gestures. Now, Leap Motion has released a demo for a new gesture called Quick Switch that will let users toggle between a VR space and a video feed of the real world—what you'd be looking at if you weren't wearing a headset—with a simple gesture. Waving a hand close to the controller, which is attached to the front of the headset, will trigger this toggle.
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Why Chat Rooms Are The Hot Social Media In 2015
The long-lost chat room is experiencing a renaissance, and social media companies new and old are hoping to capitalize on the trend.
Apps and services that allow users to real-time chat are experiencing a kind of renaissance, with the likes of Banter, Rooms, and HipChat muscling in on email and text messaging. The da Vinci of this particular revival is Slack—the just-over-one-year-old service has already nabbed a $1.12 billion valuation and hooked more than 250,000 users. Its allure? A central chat room for employees to share messages, photos, and company updates.
The act of chatting online with strangers—that phenomenon that first found its footing in the '90s, with clunky design and dial-up access—is fashionable beyond the workplace. In October, Facebook launched Rooms, a way for users to anonymously swap photos and comments about shared interests. "In Rooms you can be 'Wonder Woman'—or whatever name makes you feel most comfortable and proud," writes the Rooms development team in their inaugural blog post.
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January 5, 2015
A Top Hollywood Agent Is Using New Media To Promote Diversity. Here's How.
Charles King is setting up a new distribution company with links to Silicon Valley.
It's not just the public-facing part of the entertainment industry that's currently being shaken up by new technology; the behind-the-scenes workings of the industry are going through just as big a shift, thanks to new forms of distribution offered by the Internet.
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Chobani Denies Report That CEO Hamdi Ulukaya Will Be Removed As Chairman
An article in the New York Post was "absolutely false," the yogurt company says.
Today the New York Post, citing unnamed sources, reported that Hamdi Ulukaya would soon be ousted as chairman and CEO of the Greek yogurt juggernaut he founded nearly 10 years ago. But the story was misleading in multiple respects: For one, the company announced way back in April that it would be installing a new CEO. Two, Chobani says there are no plans to remove Ulukaya from his role as chairman. And three, Ulukaya continues to work full-time at Chobani despite transitioning away from operational management.
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