Armani’s recent Tweet Talks project showed the brand’s interest in the development of the Chinese fashion market. On June 1, Armani launched a web discussion on Twitter with a focus on China.
Being in the trend means not only to know something or buy something, it also implies ‘being there.’ LG is offering its fans in Britain a great opportunity to be among those who will attend the biggest events of this summer including One Direction, The Voice UK and The X-Factor Tour Live to be hosted at the LG Arena. The electronics giant is to give away over 100 tickets through a one-of-a-kind cross-country twitter scavenger hunt #LGTicketHunter, which launches on June 6.
Twitter, which is predicted to become the London 2012 major news platform (de facto), is developing more features to provide its users with an opportunity to communicate without barriers. The micro blogging service, which is gaining momentum in Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan now after winning the US and UK, is now testing its translation option, which will allow people to understand tweets in other languages. The translation is made automatically via Bing Translator—the experiments started last week with the option available only to a bunch of users. So far, Twitter doesn’t say when the translation feature will be rolled out to all users.
Fast Company, the journal covering the latest news in the technology, ethonomics (ethical economics) and design fields, has unveiled its annual ranking The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies. Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon are taking the lead (they are No. 1, 2, 3, and 4 correspondingly). Traditionally, the biggest intrigue here is not who will occupy the top lines (these several leaders are featured on most of ‘the best, the most successful, etc.’ ranks), but in which order they will do it (though, there are some newcomers as well). The most unpredictable thing here is what companies will take the rest of the positions and rule in their industries.