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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. | |||