Coca-Cola
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Coconut, sugar cane and other tropical blend to your liking. http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Business/2011/12/99081/ POM(agrenade) has made a blast as new entry into the American juice shelves. Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me got around to make a movie about brands. His VIP sponsor: POM juice. Branding is both mystical and magical. It helps institutions and companies thrive…
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IT workshops and seminars are happening on a weekly basis here in Saigon. Monsoon season is almost over. Except for some cigarette vendors, the Sheraton downtown could trick you into thinking you were somewhere else, like San Francisco. Lunch was ready for a group of CSO‘s and Software testers, uniformed attendants mingled with pony-tailed guests. Something…
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A laid-off Coca Cola delivery man gave a bank teller a note, demanding one dollar so he could go to jail and get healthcare. A Florida retiree robbed a bank to pay his mortgage. New York sex workers told investigative reporters they went on-call to pay back college tuition. Something is not right with our…
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Google CEO blurted out what we all know (that tech moves at 3 times faster than other business sectors, who in turn, are 3X than the government). We are analog-built e.g. eating, buying and thinking habits, while techies thought processing power is on a different plane e.g. Cold-War B53 bomb in TX is finally being disassembled and junked. A…
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We put a five-dollar bill in, and got a quarter back. Green. Go. No toll booth collector. Just a machine. Just like you would find at laundromat, or car wash. Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy. Its video rental machines don’t seem to catch up with Red Box and Netflix. Netflix doesn’t seem to catch up with…
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Despite a lot of sunshine, in California, when it rains it pours. Yet, photographer did not fail to snap a picture of a rainbow http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Calif-Storms/ss/events/us/101409califstorms#photoViewer=/100120/480/448ac9a2ced64a438dd5ecb4c958e984 Payback for all the dry months, the fire, and the smog. The State got enough on its plate: budget concern, gay marriage repeal, and now this. Best of wishes to…
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Given everything that has been going on, recent news that Ford turned the corner on North American market was quite remarkable. Ford, as American as Coca Cola and apple pie, has done a number of things right: – it cross-pollinated ideas and markets (Smart in US vs Fiesta in Europe) – it stuck out while…
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