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Lee Founders Weekend 2015 celebrates 20 years with expanded events – Berkshire Eagle (subscription)
LEE — A milestone, cemetery tour and an aerial drone fly-over highlight a revised and expanded Lee Founders Weekend this year. Festival Latino of the Berkshires celebrates its 20th anniversary as one of the premier events during the tradition three-day celebration in September to promote…
This MIT grad student discovered a way to create sound from soundless video – Business Insider
TED Conference/Flickr Our recently published list of groundbreaking scientists highlighted the smartest and most innovative modern scientists and researchers in the field. Among them is Abe Davis, an MIT graduate student who has worked with researchers from MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe to publish their findings on “the visual…
‘Star Wars’ BB-8 droid to be sold as working robot – Toronto Sun
GLENDALE, Calif. — If it weren’t for someone willing to entertain a new idea, the new Star Wars droid, BB-8, wouldn’t be rolling into living rooms this holiday season. The robot — which looks like a mechanical head on a spinning ball — was the…
Vancouver entrepreneurs turned around a struggling online platform – The Globe … – The Globe and Mail
The challenge When James Clift and his team at WorkStory Inc. bought the online résumé and portfolio platform VisualCV, it had over 200,000 members. Having those members already in place sounded like a dream come true for the young startup, but with only 1,000 active…
WVU football fan becomes team video contractor – Chron.com
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — There aren’t many people who can make a career out of being a fan, but Doug Cross is one of them. Cross, 27, is entering his fourth season as an in-house contractor with WVU, creating the promotional videos and other materials…
How One Company Scored 7 Cents A View With Twitter Promoted Video – Marketing Land
Sometimes you find the perfect fit. In denim and marketing campaigns. For Paige Denim, it happened with a successful Twitter Promoted Video effort that produced 94,000 video views, 1.77 million impressions and a good bit of traffic back to the Paige.com e-commerce site. The elements…