brand news
Posted by Shirley Brady on June 14, 2010 06:20 PM
Starbucks will offer free, one-click, no registration Wi-Fi to all app-happy, wireless users at U.S. stores via AT&T, starting July 1st.
AT&T and Apple will sell iPhone 4 at Best Buy, Radio Shack and Wal-Mart. (Separately: was AT&T's iPad breach enabled by layoffs?)
BP hires financial advisers and details oil capture plans ahead of CEO Tony Hayward's meeting with President Obama on Wednesday.
News Corp. buys Skiff e-reader platform (but not device) from Hearst, and takes a stake in Steve Brill's Journalism Online startup.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dissed his pre-release iPhone 4 (via Facebook's iPhone app).
J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler is still bitter about his ouster from Gap.
MTV is searching for its first TJ (Twitter jockey).
Old Spice pitchman Isaiah Mustafa's humorous commercials land him a development deal with NBC.
Sara Lee confirmed that its CEO is recovering from a stroke.
Wal-Mart's subsidized BAs for employees shines spotlight on American Public University.
Zynga calls Frontierville launch its "most successful ever."
More about: Apple, Best Buy, Facebook, Gap, Hearst, iPad, iPhone, J. Crew, Journalism Online, MTV, NBC, News Corp., Old Spice, Radio Shack, Sara Lee, Starbucks, Twitter, Wal-Mart, Zynga