"reverse corporate espionage" and the process of institutional forgetting via migurski

"I have a joke about brands creating content that starts by explaining that Red Bull is actually one of the largest (if not the largest) producer of action sports content in the world. That fact is quickly followed by the punchline: Turns out it's a lot easier to be a publisher that sells highly-caffeinated soda instead of ads."

dumb lede but good bits in here "For the embassy in Bangkok, winning achieved two goals: helping Lockheed and keeping the Russians from selling planes. There was, however, a small complication with the terms -- the Thai government didn't want to pay cash. Instead, it proposed trading 80,000 stockpiled tons of frozen chicken."

networked space politics

"Gerald Ratner was someone who underestimated the power of the big Other - Ratner thought he could just say that his shops sold crappy jewellery and it would have no effect, because ’everyone knew’ that this was the case. But the big Other didn’t know, and the catastrophic results for Ratner's business are well known. The capitalist big Other is the virtual entity that believes corporate advertising and PR when no empirical individual can" practical assessments of radical movements

"achieved notoriety after making a speech in which he jokingly denigrated the company's products, which caused the company's near collapse"

woaaaah via mbs

Pizza Hut has always held my respect for making pizza a deal-oriented food. "The idea is to present pizza as a 'part of other favorite things,' Mr. Azula said"

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from a great series of slo-mo, blue-tinted, airplane business deal Clips

"Format always affects form, and the exhibition space changes what’s exhibited." Predictions for new cinema (business) come fast and furious

I have been on a "creating eccentric economic incentives" tip for a minute, so this is delightfully wonderful