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...In India, for example, thousands of local stores have generated their own versions of ads featuring Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan urging people to shop locally in a campaign for Cadbury by WPP....
...This included its cut from App Store purchases, which came under fire again on Thursday....
...Allbirds, founded in 2015, raised $100m in a Series E funding round in September last year, valuing it at $1bn....
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...We literally only buy from stores....
...According to Monday’s agreement, the fee on in-store purchases will fall to 0.2 per cent of the transaction value for debit cards and 0.3 per cent for credit cards....
...There is a mystery at PetSmart, the private-equity-backed pet store with $8.2bn of debt, all of which is trading below 80 cents on the dollar....
...A 34oz bottle of P&G’s Pantene Pro-V Shampoo & Conditioner was listed by 10 different sellers — nine of them third parties — on the shopping site....
...Freemium v paid: Streaming competition swells YouTube is one of several Spotify competitors bringing streaming services to the market this year....
...A nurse presses its finger scanner, taps in a code and Abbie pops out a drawer with drugs for a patient. Mission accomplished, the robot trundles off – “departing now”....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Stewart has in recent years created a wide range of branded products – including homewares for Macy’s department stores and, in 2007, a Martha Stewart wine vintage with E & J Gallo winery....
...The anti-tax message in that 1992 decision, Quill v North Dakota, is not as clear-cut as Amazon’s friends let on....
...Where once we dug out an A-Z and absorbed the route as we plotted our way across town, now we simply punch co-ordinates into the TomTom or smartphone....
...V.G. Siddhartha is a reluctant interviewee. Initially rebuffing a request from the Financial Times, he politely e-mailed: “I don’t think I have got any great story at this time.”...
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...Toyota is launching its Entune infotainment system with the new Prius V hybrid car this year....
...She can’t fit in an interview, but suggests that if we e-mail over some questions she will write out the answers....
...Also, although screens like the iPhone are a great advance, they are nowhere near as easy on the eye as the E-Ink technology used by gadgets specifically designed for reading text, like the Kindle or Sony...
...Apple fans are preparing to camp outside its US stores to get their hands on an iPhone this Friday. They are lining up to be disappointed....
...In September four models appeared at the end of Betsey Johnson’s New York women’s wear show stripped down to not much more than their briefs, with boards hung on their backs spelling out V-O-T-E....
...His solution is to ban e-photographs until the clothes are ready to go into stores, as opposed to posting them the season before, which might sound like good news for fashion houses – except no designer...
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