The heat is on for St. Louis Cardinals fans to vote 2011 World Series MVP David Freese into the 2012 All-Star Game. The Cardinals even have a get-out-the vote campaign going with the Chicago White Sox: Cards fans rooting for Freese are urged to use their American League votes for Jake Peavy, and vice versa rather than any of the other candidates to be the fan pick for the last one added to each ro

We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o

European legislators struck a huge blow against the controversial international piracy agreement ACTA on Wednesday, voting the proposals down by a huge margin — with 478 votes against and just 39 votes in its favor. But, although the result appears to leave the treaty on the canvas, campaigners should be wary: it’s not quite finished yet. ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is a multina

Studies will explore whether multi-use farming mixes with utility-scale solar, focusing on both scientific and practical questions. The tariffs, which were announced in May after direction from President Biden, target goods like steel and aluminum, semiconductors, electric vehicles, batteries, critical minerals, solar cells, and ship-to-shore cranes. The decline can be largely attributed to a drop

We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o

Facebook (s fb) has made waves by detailing its plans to use what an executive calls “cell-phone chips” — or “wimpy cores” — in its future data centers. Frank Frankovsky, the VP of infrastructure at Facebook, told me the social network plans to test such chips now and throughout next year, with plans to have them in production in 2014. “We’re testing and generally bullish on the category, and base

We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o

There’s been a lot written recently about Twitter and the choices it seems to be making about the future of the network, although the exact nature of those choices remains shrouded in mystery. Some say Twitter made the wrong choice when it decided to focus on advertising as a business model, rather than expanding its status as an open platform for others to build on, while others argue that doing