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IBM Pulls the Plug on #HackAHairDryer Campaign After Sexism Complaints
2015-12-08 07:30:29| Semiconductors - Topix.net
The International Business Machines Corp. logo is displayed in front of the company's offices in New York, U.S., on Oct. 14, 2013 IBM's promotional campaign to attract more women to science and technology by encouraging them to "hack a hair dryer" got some serious blowback on the internet. The company on Monday pulled the plug on its #HackAHairDryer initiative after a multitude of women complained that it fed off sexist stereotypes.
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Facebook Axes Experimental Creative Labs, Pulls Apps
2015-12-08 02:01:57| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Standalone apps like Rooms, Riff, and Slingshot are no more.
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Electrolux Drops After GE Pulls $3.3 Billion Appliance Deal
2015-12-07 16:11:37| Appliances - Topix.net
Electrolux AB fell the most in more than four years after General Electric Co. abandoned plans to sell its appliance business to the Swedish manufacturer for about $3.3 billion because of opposition from U.S. antitrust regulators.
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Coke pulls offensive Christmas ad but faces backlash from indigenous rights group
2015-12-06 06:29:57| Beverages - Topix.net
Coca-Cola is under fire for an advertisement unveiled in Mexico, focusing on the indigenous Mixe community, that some believe struck a racist, colonialist and offensive tone. The ad features a group of model-like white teens driving to a remote community of Totontepec in the country's southern Oaxaca state, where they build a Christmas tree in a town square and begin handing out bottles of Coke.
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On climate change, Trudeau pulls a bait-and-switch
2015-11-30 00:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Sun: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is getting a lot of love from climate change campaigners these days simply because he doesn't insult them. The last prime minister -- that would be Stephen Harper, of course -- had a natural resources minister that talked about "environmentalists and other radical groups" who would "hijack our regulatory system." One of Harper's public safety ministers tabled anti-terrorism legislation that specifically identified environmentalists as a threat. It was all part of a...
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