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Future of Fashion Retail in Pop-ups

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Reckoning with high rental fees, the onslaught of online shops and multinationals, brick-and-mortar fashion retailers are realising the perks of a pop-up shop.

Wait, pop-up what?

A pop-up is a store that takes up retail space temporarily (i.e. a few days to several months) as opposed to one taking on a year- or decades-long lease. The setup effectively frees the lessee from the constraints of a lengthy contract. (more…)

Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Named ‘Person of the Year’ by Time

By PravdaDecember 15, 2010Culture, Technologydefinitions of privacy, earth, editor, founder of facebook, harvard university, Mark Zuckerberg, MySpace, News Corp., person of the year, richard stengel, social networking site, sophomore, t-shirt-wearing head-of-state, third largest country, time magazine, Wall Street, zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook Inc., was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” today for “creating a new system of exchanging information” and “changing how we all live our lives.”

Zuckerberg, 26, began the world’s largest social-networking site in 2004. The service, with more than 500 million users, has helped people connect with each other and changed definitions of privacy, Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel said in a letter on the magazine’s website. (more…)