Articles Posted in the Business Category
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Summer’s Eve ‘Hail to the V’ Ads: Do these clapping hands promote more than just Vaginas?
Summer’s Eve launched a new “Hail to the V” advertising campaign this week which includes three television ads targeting African Americans, Latinas and white women and some people say the ads promote racial stereotypes. Each ad features a hand depicting a woman’s which is a vertical hand. The Black hand explains to African American women [...]
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Quepasa Announces 2 MM+ Installs of its first Social Gaming Title
Note: The following is a press release from Que Pasa. Rapid Growth and Strong Engagement Metrics for Cidade Maravilhosa Drive Cross-Platform Marketing Push, Updated User Acquisition Strategy for Quepasa.com WEST PALM BEACH, FL – July 6, 2011 – Quepasa Corporation (NYSE Amex: QPSA), owner of popular Latino online social network Quepasa.com and social game development [...]
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Cinco de Mayo Celebrates: Carlos Slim Helú
Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s Independence Day, it is a holiday that commemorates the Mexican’s victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. It has been said that “The Puebla victory came to symbolize unity and pride for what seemed like a Mexican David defeating a French Goliath.” Today, [...]
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Denied! Apple Rejects Smuggle Truck Immigration game App Submission
Owlchemy labs created controversy earlier this year when they announced their new game “Smuggle Truck,” which would allow players to smuggle illegal immigrants across a virtual southern border in a truck. This morning the company announced that their iPhone/iPad submission was rejected by the App Store. The original game is still available for PC and [...]
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Sears Facebook page fans: Latin Lovers or Haters?
An update on the Sears Facebook page upset some fans Thursday when Sears invited fans to check out their Spanish-language website. Original Sears Status Update: Thanks to the Social Media Spanish blog for highlighting how Sears.com is reaching out to Hispanic and international customers. We are excited to bring Sears.com to entirely new customers! Check [...]
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LA Metro launches Spanish-language blog
The LA Metro launched a Spanish-language blog and Twitter account Friday to help Metro connect with Spanish speaking consumers. “We have to recognize that the majority of our customers are Latino,” said Marc Littman of Metro in an LA Times article. “We want to put a Latino face on Metro so people can identify that [...]
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Job Alert: McDonald’s is hiring…50,000 people?
Mark your calendars for April 19th. McDonald’s may not be the most glamorous job, but store managers can earn up to $50,000 a year and there is upward mobility for some employees to move into corporate positions. So, what is happening on April 19th? McDonald’s plans on hiring 50,o00 workers that day to fill a [...]
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Edna Schmidt is back at the Univision Anchor Desk
“Nunca me fui, aqui estoy… :)” – Edna Schmidt’s response to a follower on Twitter tonight asking if she was really returning to Unvision. Some people thought she wasn’t coming back, but she was just taking some well deserved time off. Edna Schmidt tweeted earlier tonight that she’ll return to the anchor desk for tonight’s [...]
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Video: Chicharito’s New Coke Commercial ¿por qué no?
Have you seen Chicarito’s new commercial for Coke Zero? It’ll be airing internationally including in Mexico and the United Kingdom according to media reports. What do you think? Leave comments below or share them with us on Twitter and Facebook.
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Bad news for Chipotle Employees in Virginia and DC
If you’re looking for a job in the Virginia and Washington DC areas, we’ve got a lead to share with you: Chipotle will probably soon be hiring a lot of employees to replace all the undocumented workers who will lose their jobs. Why? An audit by federal immigration officials as part of a wider government [...]
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J-Lo is a Venus Goddess and Obama Super Bowl Guest
Obama may not have realized when he decided to invite Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony that he was also inviting a Goddess. This week J-Lo was named the one and only Venus Goddess. As the brand’s first-ever global ambassador, she’ll inspire women around the world to “reveal the goddess in you,” by feeling confident, powerful [...]
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MeEncanta.com & other McDonald’s databases Hacked; e-mails stolen
If you’ve ever given your e-mail as part of a McDonald’s promotion (like their Monopoly game), it was probably stolen when McDonald’s databases were recently hacked into, according to the chain. “Recently McDonald’s was informed by one of its partners that limited customer information collected in connection with our promotions or websites was improperly accessed [...]
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Chipotle Store Manager Kills Cat; causes Consumer Uproar
The Chipotle Facebook and Twitter pages erupted this evening with consumers upset over a Facebook status update Friday by Chipotle store manager Jocelyn Rivas who ran over a cat on her way home from work and wrote that “…one less cat..don’t like em!” and continued “I’m not gonna act like I feel bad when I [...]
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Black Friday Tips: Al que madruga Dios lo ayuda
There is a famous proverb that says “Al que madruga Dios lo ayuda” which means God helps those who get up early and I think the person who said this was talking about all of the Black Friday deals! Many shoppers have been waiting for this a day for a year and the moment has [...]
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GAP Headed to Chile; will launch first store in South America
Chileans will get a few more clothing options next year because Gap announced a franchise agreement with Komax, for exclusive rights to operate Gap brand stores in Chile. The first Gap store is expected to open in Santiago, Chile in the Parque Arauco mall in September 2011 in the swanky Las Condes” section of Santiago. [...]
