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Brooks Sports vs. Brooks Brothers: Menswear maker’s social slogan adds new wrinkle to dispute

GeekWire

Images via Internet Archive and U.S. Brooks Sports, the Seattle-based athletic footwear and apparel company, is escalating its legal battle against Brooks Brothers by challenging the menswear maker’s recent “Back to Brooks” social media and marketing campaign.

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How social justice slideshows took over Instagram

Vox

But in a time of social unrest, these text-based slideshow graphics have found new resonance and an eager audience on the platform, which has been notorious for prioritizing still images over text. The way Hu describes it, in spite of the massive interest toward social justice slideshows, Instagram’s algorithm “actively fights against it.”

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Beyond pays $4.5M to acquire Zulily brand, plans to relaunch flash sale site later this year

GeekWire

million in cash to buy Zulily’s website, domain names, trademarks, customer database, social media accounts, and software, the company said in a press release. GeekWire reported late Wednesday that Beyond appeared to be the new owner following posts on social media teasing a relaunch. Beyond paid $4.5

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The ever-changing pressures of running an Instagram business

Vox

Rachel Reichenbach likes to joke that she is the overlord of an internet frog cult. Reichenbach, who is also a full-time college student in California, began selling keychains, pins, plushies, apparel, and other paraphernalia of her amphibian sketches in 2019, and as her Instagram audience grew, so did her sales.

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We’re all addicted to cheap stuff — and Temu knows it

Vox

Well, no: $300 worth of coupons, which, on Temu, can buy you selected home goods, cutesy electronics, apparel — really, anything you can imagine. The Chinese retailer also immediately suggested some distinctly American apparel to me, including almost certainly unofficial merch such as Morgan Wallen tees, a sweatshirt with “T.S.

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ first year: a timeline

The Verge

And esports teams, like Gen.g , shared designs of their jerseys for players to use, while 100 Thieves added its entire apparel collection to the game. Also throughout April (and beyond): New Horizons’ turnips bring the internet together. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Image: Monterey Bay Aquarium on Twitch.

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How Shopify’s network of sellers can take on Amazon

The Verge

Shopify is one of those companies that makes the modern internet go — it makes software that allows businesses of all sizes to set up online stores, and from there it can handle everything from shipping orders to financing loans for expansion. We wanted to sell snowboards on the internet. You’re not running a social media platform.

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