Retailers: It’s Time To Change Social Marketing Tactics
03/17/2010 – 10:09 am | Comments

When it comes to social media, having a presence on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace aren’t going to cut it anymore. Brands and retailers need to be head of the social evolution curve.
91% of mobile users …

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STUDY: Apps Market Worth $17.5 billion by 2012
03/17/2010 – 2:34 pm | Comments

GetJar, an independent mobile phone application store with more than 60,000 mobile applications for major mobile platforms such as Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile, commissioned a study that predicts the global apps market to be worth $17.5 billion 2012.

According to the study, created by Chetan Sharma Consulting, mobile app downloads should jump from 7 billion in 2009 to almost 50 billion in 2012. By this time, the market will be worth 17.5 billion dollars, the study predicts, despite the expected lower price of mobile apps, which should drop from the current average of 2 dollars per app to 1.5 dollars in 2012.

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Show Your Style Expertise
03/17/2010 – 9:49 am | Comments
Show Your Style Expertise

Examiner.com is looking for new style & fashion contributors.

Contributors should be technologically-savvy, knowledgeable about fashion, have solid writing abilities, and are able to write from a local angle
Contributors are expected to publish at …

LAFW: LA Bloggers Fashion 2.0 Party
03/14/2010 – 10:52 pm | Comments
LAFW: LA Bloggers Fashion 2.0 Party

This was the first season that LA Fashion Bloggers held a LA Fashion Week event of their own; Sasha Jones (an amazing photographer and LA style blogger) was on the scene covering the events festivities. …

Fashionably Connected: News + Discoveries From Around The Web
03/13/2010 – 10:25 pm | Comments
Fashionably Connected: News + Discoveries From Around The Web

As we consume content on the web, how do we actually retain?
What if  we read five or six articles per week, sprinkled in a few fun contests or giveaways, and delved deep into three or …

The Guide To LA Fashion Week
03/12/2010 – 9:19 am | Comments
The Guide To LA Fashion Week

LA Fashion Week begins today, want to find out what’s going on, here are the go-to-resources for all things related to LA Fashion Week.
Websites:

Fashion District
Fashion Week LA
California Apparel News
Cooper Design Space
Downtown LA Fashion Week
DineLA
Designers and …

March 25th: LA Style Careers Job Fair
03/08/2010 – 9:51 am | Comments
March 25th: LA Style Careers Job Fair

StyleCareers.com is hosting a career fair for fashion industry professionals at the Cooper Design Space in downtown LA on Thursday, March 25th from 2pm to 7pm.
Recruiters will be looking for fashion industry professionals with backgrounds …

Kristen + Kristen: Red Carpet, Celebrity Fashion Trends
03/06/2010 – 8:31 pm | Comments

Our two favorite women – Kristen Turner and Kristen Reeves share their thoughts and opinions on the celebrity, red carpet fashion trends we can expect to see at the 2010 Oscars.
Here are their “Oh Please …

Squareup enable Micropayments via Retailers’ iPhones
03/03/2010 – 4:38 am | Comments
Squareup enable Micropayments via Retailers’ iPhones

We’re nuts for anything mobile. We get giddy over mobile commerce and wish our spouses had invented mobile payments.
It’s come to my attention that Digg founder Kevin Rose has invested in a mobile startup known …

Magazine Publishers To Launch “Commitment To Print” Advertising Campaign
03/02/2010 – 12:15 pm | Comments
Magazine Publishers To Launch “Commitment To Print” Advertising Campaign

The leaders of five major magazine companies — Charles H. Townsend, Conde Nast; Cathie Black, Hearst Magazines; Jack Griffin, Meredith Corporation; Ann Moore, Time Inc.; and Jann Wenner, Wenner Media — today jointly announced the …

New York: Jewelry CEO Summit March 2010
03/02/2010 – 9:51 am | Comments
New York: Jewelry CEO Summit March 2010

The Jeweler’s Resource Bureau will hold the Designer CEO Summit on March 14, 2010 at the Katie Murphy Amphitheatre, located in New York City’s Fashion Institute of Technology.
This summit will include talks and classes from …

15 Brands at #WWDMagic You Should Know
03/01/2010 – 5:00 am | Comments
15 Brands at #WWDMagic You Should Know

New York Fashion Week and Magic in Las Vegas have come to what I’d call a successful end. The impact of social media and digital technology couldn’t be more evident. While a bit fragmented, we …