Black Friday marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season. Being the day after Thanksgiving, it is usually one of the busiest shopping days of the year, with stores opening in the wee hours of the morning to sell stuff that you already saw for 10 months straight. People line up for blocks waiting... 

Mascots are usually the human embodiment of a brand. It is a way for everyone to connect with a brand in their own way through the mascot. As we all know though, sometimes mascots for brands just don’t make sense. Other times, the mascot makes us not want to buy the brand because the mascot is... 

The decline in the global economy has caused many companies to collapse and declare bankruptcy – see: Circuit City, Lehman Brothers, and Washington Mutual. Other companies have not only survived the economy, but continue to grow and rake in the billions. Here is a short list of “candidates”... 

Throughout human history, there have been countless inventions that have changed the way we live and think about the world. The wheel, the formation of steel, the automobile and the television are examples of these life changing inventions. Today, technology is progressing so fast that something new... 

There comes a time when a new fad sweeps the nation and sometimes the world. More often than not, these fads disappear as quickly as they came, leaving only the people who came up with the idea swimming in millions of dollars in profit. It makes you think “Why didn’t I think of that?”...