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Who's courting Salesforce? IBM, Oracle among top guesses

2015-04-30 02:07:20| Telecom - Topix.net

A report that Salesforce.com is entertaining takeover offers whipped up a storm of speculation Wednesday, as analysts and other observers mulled the possibility and what it could mean for the enterprise software market. "It would require a massive deal for that to happen," noted Ray Wang, founder and principal analyst with Constellation Research.

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Apple Courting Music Artists for Streaming Service Exclusives

2015-04-11 22:02:43| PC Magazine Software Product Guide

Exclusives could certainly get a lot of attention for Apple's streaming service—so long as the company didn't mind a little fan backlash.

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Is Courting Controversy An Urban Outfitters Strategy?

2014-12-16 14:40:37| Apparel - Topix.net

Earlier this week, Gawker published an image of an invitation sent to Urban Outfitters employees, exhorting them, as the invite put it, to "break out your juttis, kurtas, turbans, saris, lehenga cholis and harem pants" for the company holiday party. "As you can see," Gawker 's Jordan Sargent wrote, "employees are being asked to dress up in some mish-mash of Orientalist signifiers so obviously offensive that two separate Urban employees forwarded the image to us this morning."

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Froggy went a courting: Rev. Billys climate protest heads to trial

2014-02-13 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Last October, the Reverend Billy was arrested for preaching into a megaphone inside a branch of Chase Bank in Midtown Manhattan. He`d been accompanied by a gang of golden frogs - the first known species to become extinct as the direct result of climate change. The frogs and the Reverend were there to call attention, through singing and dancing, to Chase Banks ranking as the largest lender in the world for new coal plant construction. Reverend Billy - an activist and performance artist actually...

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