Clothes Site Moxsie Lures Future Employees With Foursquare-Style System Two months ago, Moxsie began posting sample products on Twitter during the company’s merchandising meetings, allowing its 115,000 followers to pick which fabrics, colors, and designs they liked. Now the clothes startup is taking crowdsourcing to a whole new level.
Updated Wed Dec 15, 2010
Juno Baby Takes on Baby Einstein With Real Music, iTunes for Toddlers
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Taking on Baby Einstein’s DVD empire is a formidable task. But Juno is up for the job. Her strategy: Create original orchestral music for children, surround herself with a host of equally quirky characters, and leverage mobile technology like no puppet has done before.
Updated Mon Dec 6, 2010
Crocs Comeback: Plastic Shoemaker Back From Dead With 250 Styles When you think Crocs, you think ugly comfy clogs, right? Take a look at the company's just-released third-quarter earnings report, and you'll see that nearly one-third of Crocs' revenues come from new products like sneakers, boots, sandals, flip-flops and even high heels.
Tue Nov 9, 2010
San Francisco's $8 Million Green Ferry Casts Off We've all seen hybrid cars and lower emissions buses. But what about an environmentally friendly ferryboat? The San Francisco Bay Area recently unveiled the first in a new fleet of 149 passenger "green" ferries that ...
Posted Thu Mar 5, 2009
5-Year-Old Facebook's 4 Toughest Lessons
Lots of businesses are copying what Facebook has done right. But with social media becoming an increasingly important part of every businesses strategy, there is also plenty to be learned from Facebook's blunders. The mega-social networking site has done far more right than wrong--amassing 175 million users in about the time it takes most companies to wake up in the morning--but in honor of the popular social network's fifth birthday earlier this month, we put together a list of the 4 biggest Facebook blunders of the past 5 years.
Posted Mon Feb 23, 2009
