PepsiCo, one of the biggest global companies committed to drive innovation and support talents, is expanding its program PepsiCo10, launched last summer in the U.S., to Europe. The initiative is aimed at discovering emerging and innovative small media and technology companies, which can introduce small, but very positive changes to the industry working side by side with PepsiCo experts developing projects for the Pepsi-Cola, Walkers Snacks, Tropicana and Quaker brands.

The UK cooker manufacturer Belling, together with its PR and social media agency Umpf continues the charity campaign ‘Tweet Pie: The world’s shortest recipe book’. The specific recipes are called ’twecipes’, as they were crowdsourced through Twitter. The recipe book includes 50 140-character recipes that have been chosen from over 200 supplied by users.

With young, dynamic and active target audience Nike keeps on inventing smart and interactive marketing campaigns. Yesterday the brand announced the launch of ‘The Chosen,’ a new global ‘Just Do It’ campaign starring a number of action sports stars. The main point of the campaign is a film featuring skate god Paul Rodriguez (P-Rod), Olympic snowboarder Danny Kass, surf genies Julian Wilson and Laura Enever. The film was shot in many countries of the world at night with lighting and pyrotechnics effects reminding of a live rock concert with a main theme ‘I got a thing’ performed by Hanni El Khatib.

Microsoft lately came up with a preview of its next operating system of Windows, which has been given the code name Windows 8 for now and set to run on both tablets and PCs. No date has been given for the release of Windows 8, but it might be available before October 2012. Right now demonstrations of Windows 8 running on tablets, phones and desktop computers were given at separate conferences in the U.S. and Taiwan.