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	(Sponsor this newsletter) Race, Tattoos in Advertising Affect What Consumers Buy A study recently published in the Economic Journal of the Royal Economic Society discovered that online shoppers are less likely to purchase a product if a black person or someone with a tattoo is selling it. As part of the study, researchers conducted a yearlong experiment selling iPods in about 1,200 online classified ads placed in more than 300 locales throughout the United States, ranging from small towns to major cities. Read More » 6 Mobile Apps Changing Shopping Forever Mobile shopping doesn't just mean visiting a retailer's website and making purchases using a mobile phone. Today, the latest mobile app technology is turning smartphone users into smart shoppers as well. One such technology is mobile visual search, which uses recognition technology to make finding products using a mobile phone easier than ever.  "Mobile visual search is the future, period," said Dominik Mazur, CEO and co-founder of Image Searcher, Inc., developers of CamFind, an iPhone app that practically renders text search obsolete.  Read More » Fired for What? 10 Infamous Firings You've probably already heard about the Kentucky man who lost his job at Wamart last month after allegedly trying to bring a little Thanksgiving cheer to an elderly customer. A petition on Change.org has garnered more than 350,000 online signatures, but so far, Walmart hasn't given him his job back, citing a number of other problems with the employee. The Jaglal firing isn't the only time Walmart has received attention for letting an employee go. The company fired Kristopher Oswald, who had been sitting in his car on break at the time of the incident. Read More » Scientists believe some whales flee from sonar SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Navy plans to increase sonar testing in U.S. waters over the next five years even as studies it funded reveal worrying signs that the loud underwater noise could disturb whales and dolphins. Read More » Fossils of 4.4-Million-Year-Old Horse Found Scientists poking around Ethiopia's fossil-rich badlands say they have discovered the first pieces of an extinct species of horse that was about the size of a small zebra and lived about 4.4 million years ago. The leg bone bits indicate this horse had longer legs than its ancestors. Read More » World's E-Waste to Grow 33% by 2017, Says Global Report The forecast, based on data gathered by United Nations organizations, governments, and nongovernment and science organizations in a partnership known as the "Solving the E-Waste Problem (StEP) Initiative," predicts e-waste generation will swell by a third in the next five years, led by the United States and China. The StEP Initiative created a map of the world's e-waste, which is available online. Read More »
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