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From Morning Filter (Nov. 20, 2013), Marketing‘s daily morning newsletter inFORM is a new technology lets you “touch” (or at least interact with) objects in other rooms, cities, countries… anywhere there’s a wifi signal, presumably. The tech’s creators were even creative enough to suggest a few real-world applications for their product 1.0. [Read more via […]

From Morning Filter (Nov. 20, 2013), Marketing‘s daily morning newsletter

inFORM is a new technology lets you “touch” (or at least interact with) objects in other rooms, cities, countries… anywhere there’s a wifi signal, presumably. The tech’s creators were even creative enough to suggest a few real-world applications for their product 1.0.
[Read more via Tangible.Media.MIT.edu]

Playing off the upcoming Black Friday/Cyber Monday super shopping season, Twitter released research that it says show products promoted through its ad services reach consumers more effectively while they’re busy breaking down the doors at Target or stampeding towards the big screen TVs at Best Buy.
[Read more via CNBC]

JPMorgan, which has been in the news because of a series of multi-million dollar regulatory settlements, suffered another public relations setback this week. A social media program that was supposed to let users submit career-related questions to vice-chair James Lee quickly garnered questions such as “As a young sociopath, how can I succeed in finance?”
[Read more via Profit]

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