Once-Counterculture 420 Marijuana Holiday Goes Mainstream
Apr 19, 2019 Companies and brands get on board the April 20 celebration of all things pot related, even advocating for criminal justice reform.
A Country Without a Heart
Feb 6, 2018 Martin Luther King selling Ram trucks during the Super Bowl may be the tipping point for America.
Apple Continues Its Quest for World Domination With the iPhone X
Sep 13, 2017 CEO Tim Cook declares the company's new product "the biggest leap forward since the first iPhone."
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The Spectacle of IS: Resisting Mainstream Workstations of Fear
Oct 2, 2014 The use of new digital technologies and social media by Islamic State has drawn a great deal of attention by the dominant media not only because the extremists have used them as a form of visual terrorism to graphically portray the beheadings of captured American and British civilians, but also because of its alleged sophistication as a marketing tool.
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Jul 13, 2012 Companies in pursuit of “likes” on Facebook are discouraged to hear that many of those clicks are coming from fake profiles set up to spread spam.
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Feb 18, 2012 Sneaky, sneaky Google. The online search giant did an end run around Apple's proprietary Web browser by jacking Safari's privacy settings so that the Internet travels of iPhone and computer users could be followed for marketing purposes without their knowledge.
