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When QSRs Think Really Outside The Box In The Innovation Race

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The drive-thru window, for example, first met the market in 1947 when it was introduced to the world by Sheldon “Red” Chaney, operator of Red’s Giant Hamburg in Springfield, Missouri. The concept was invented by a Guatemalan McDonald’s franchise operator, Yolanda Fernández de Cofiño, in the mid-70s.

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Facebook’s Content Conundrum

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Office of War Information created a marketing slogan that has since become a favored colloquialism for the importance of secrecy: Loose Lips Sink Ships. King worked at Yahoo from 2002 to 2004 as a moderator — a job she likened to working “at the front lines of what I call the toxic waste of the internet.”. In 1942, the U.S.

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Why The Sweet Smell Of Tech Success Can Be Rife With Failure

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Microsoft was incredibly confident in the product, as were many big names in the early 2000s market: Acer, Compaq, Fujitsu and Toshiba all promised to put out versions of the Microsoft Tablet PC by 2002. ” That is not quite how the story turned out. .” ” That is not quite how the story turned out.

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Improving Customer Experience Through Digital Reinvention

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Many major hotel chains are aware that their market valuation has been eclipsed by Airbnb. And Blockbuster, which in 2004 had about 60,000 employees and more than 8,000 stores, was in bankruptcy by 2010 because Netflix and other on-demand video providers figured out how to deliver a much more convenient and rewarding experience.

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From Instagram To Slack: 9 Successful Startup Pivots

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Today, Instagram is one of the more popular social media platforms. Owned by Facebook, the image- and video-sharing service is worth an estimated $100B, boasts 1 billion users, and has spawned a new class of marketing careers for savvy users. Source: Wayback Machine.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

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That’s not because the Big Four have or had the market locked so they never had a chance, but because a mobile-centric world creates a very different set of expectations around what consumers want from the businesses with which they interact. In 2004 in the U.S., Today, despite the story the U.S.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

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The company announced it was effectively ceasing operations immediately and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, putting more than 1,100 people out of work overnight. After evaluating the vehicle, the EPA gave The Coda a fuel economy equivalence of 73 miles per gallon, the highest of any electric vehicle on the market in 2012.

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