26 Jan
Posted by Tom Andries as Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue scores another number 1. This time it’s not in the music charts but with her 2001 ‘Agent Provocateur’ ad -- even banned at some cinemas at the time for being just too sexy… Now the clip has been voted the number 1 favorite UK cinema ad ever.
Fleur Castell, marketing and research controller for Digital Cinema Media, said:
“Cinema is about engaging and entertaining the audience, and this ad pulls off both elements perfectly in a fun and cheeky way.
#1 . Agent Provocateur ‘Proof’ (2001)
The full top 10 includes:
25 Jan
Posted by Tom Andries as Finance & Stocks

There’s a new CEO in town at Yahoo. Her name is Carol Bartz, a hardened and experienced manager. Someone not to be fooled around with according to insiders.
That might be just what the doctor ordered for Yahoo! Bartz just freezed employee pays for the next 2 years and she won’t let Microsoft bully Yahoo! around either. One of Bartz’s first comments was her guts told her not to sell Yahoo! Search to Steve Ballmer and his Windows mob. Nice!
One week in, Carol Bartz sent a memo to all Yahoo! asking to stop press leaks… which you can read in the subsequently leaked memo…
Carol will have the tough task announcing Yahoo!’s most recent Q4 numbers next tuesday. And while everyone is expecting them to be dismal, the low expectations might just leave some room for positive surprise too. However small… (more…)

Even though Yahoo! and its 17 months interim CEO and origininal founder Jerry Yang have been kicked and called names at by popular media in recent times… Yahoo.com still is a profitable internet powerhouse of enormous proportions.
And many might not have noticed the silver lining in all of this. Yahoo! is still growing its huge reach even further and making huge inroads on several fronts.
An overview of Yahoo!’s spectacular and unexpected wins and why the economic downturn can help the plagued company.
Yahoo! scores BIG!
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