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You can buy a Hillary Clinton nutcracker for $21.95. Google is the world's most powerful brand worth an estimated £43 billion and Vodafone is the most powerful British brand worth £18,500 million, according to Millward Brown's BrandZ study.
 
Gucci, an 18 month old Pomeranian dog can be rented once a week for £279 a month. Flexpetz an American rent-a-dog venture is coming to the UK. We told you renting was the new buying. Britons throw away 1.3 million unopened pots of yoghurt each day.
     
The power of twitter, the real-time communications network, confirmed with news of a Berkeley graduate student arrested in Egypt while covering anti-government protests. His one word tweet, "arrested" to his network, set off a chain of events leading to his release. The brain makes some decisions 10 seconds before they become conscious thought.
     
In Beijing, women, on average, own 16 pairs of shoes. Each year 40,000 people pay homage at the California garage where the founders of Hewlett Packard started out.
     
There are six women, two chief executives, one managing director, three supermarkets and one spin doctor in the Marketer of the Year shortlist. Vote now by emailing topmarketer@haymarket.com Multiplayer online games can teach real managers leadership lessons reports The Harvard Business Review. "True, leading 25 guild members in a six-hour raid on Illidan the Betrayer's temple fortress is hardly the same as running a complex global organization. For starters, the stakes are just a bit higher in business. But don't dismiss online games as mere play," it says.