In partnership with TechStars, a startup accelerator providing seed funding from over 75 venture capital firms globally, Nike is launching a new bold project to encourage  like-minded entrepreneurs to start their one businesses and leverage the success of popular Nike + products such as the Nike+ FuelBand and Nike+ Running.

Pepsi is announcing a new brand ambassador, Beyoncé, who actually has been on the brand’s celebrity roster since 2002. As part of the new round of partnership, which is defined as a “true creative and wide-ranging global collaboration,” the brand and the international music icon will be developing “new content and innovative ways to engage fans, consumers and retailers to benefit both brands,” notes Pepsi.

Wearable electronics, which is gaining momentum now, still evokes futuristic associations. Macy’s wants to make tomorrow come earlier. The US retailer has collaborated with Sean John Combs aka Puff Daddy, the brand’s fashion partner, to create a new item, inspired by this trend—a sweater with a video element, which turns this traditional knitted piece of clothing into a true tribute to high-tech.

Walls of buildings in the city area can be perfect canvas for modern artwork—brands such as Stella Artois and Converse have already proved it with their large-scale projects. Smirnoff also joins the army of urban art wizards by unveiling a series of “painted by light” urban murals on buildings of São Paulo, Brazil. For the project developed by Wieden + Kennedy, the brand invited graffiti artists from Acidum Group to create their stunning artwork with blacklight-activated paint, which glows only at night.