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  Energy company issues apology for misleading more than 400,000 customers with marketing tactic: 'Historic acknowledgement'

  thecooldown.com - Calvin Coffee

  A major Australian energy company has taken a rare step: telling the truth.EnergyAustralia, one of the country's biggest power providers, has issued …

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  Google Going to Trial After Doing Something Super Sketchy to Android Users

  futurism.com - Joe Wilkins

  Not cool. In the information age, data is gold — and Google has enough to make King Midas blush. But in this new economic paradigm, all that data comes …

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  Temu and Shein slash Google Shopping ads in response to tariffs

  eMarketer - Sara Lebow

  Key stat: Temu and Shein ad impressions dropped to 0% as both retailers effectively cut off Google Shopping ad spend in April. Beyond the chart: Temu’s …

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  AMC Says It Will Show More Ads Before Movies

  The New York Times - By Aishvarya Kavi

  The theater chain’s decision brings it in line with what its biggest competitors, Regal and Cinemark, have been doing since 2019, but it risks irking loyal customers. It’s a perennial frustration for moviegoers: The lights go out, the theater falls silent and the anticipation of the movie builds. But …

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  Modelo’s new NA beer might just have the best logo of the year

  Fast Company - BY Zachary Petit

  Modelo’s latest offering may be nonalcoholic, but its logo has us drunk on design. The world is awash in nonalcoholic beer right now. Athletic led the category with some $95.8 million in sales in 2024, followed by the legacy barons Heineken ($89.45 million), Budweiser ($62.37 million), Busch ($37.08 …

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  Dec 4, 2023

  Great Writers and Thinkers Insist Forced Boredom Is the Secret to Exceptional Creativity

  Inc Magazine - Jessica Stillman

  Science, geniuses, and celebrated writers all agree: If you want to maximize your creativity, sometimes you have to get very, very bored. When was the last time you were well and truly bored? Reading-the-back-of-the-cereal-box bored? Staring-at-the-walls-and-going-slightly-batty bored? With our …