D’décor : Shah Rukh and Gauri as Brand Ambassadors

D’décor, the world's third largest furnishing company, relaunching its brand. It has signed in Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan who is first time teaming with his wife Gauri as its brand ambassadors.

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Denim goes wide: VF Corp's 7 For All Mankind

WOMEN who hate skinny jeans can rejoice when the extra-tight denim, that has dominated the market for more than two years, makes way for wide-leg cuts. Bell-bottoms and boot-cut styles will appear in stores shortly. Many apparel watchers predict the eventual demise of the skinny that has spurred both adoration and revulsion.
"The pendulum is swinging away from skinny," said Ryan Dziadul, a spokesman for VF Corp's 7 For All Mankind. "There are millions of pairs out there. It is about bell-bottoms."

When first launched in 2000, the 7 For All Mankind® brand earned critical acclaim for innovative use of fits, fabrics and finishes. Today, 7 For All Mankind is a true premium denim lifestyle brand with men’s, kid’s, handbag and footwear collections.

Automotive Family Tree

Andy Harris from TooManyCars.info has updated (a few times) his fantastic Automotive Family Tree map of who owns the car companies.

Welcome to version 3.2 of the “Family Tree” style diagram of who owns who (or is it whom) in the automotive world. In this version of the “Family Tree”, I’ve added more categories: Heavy Trucks and Chinese made automobiles. The diagram now shows 130 different vehicle manufactures from US, Europe, India, Asia, Russia and China. I’ve read that there is more than 80 different vehicle manufactures in China. I made the decision not to list all of them, but the ones I included are among the top 40 manufactures in the world.

Trivia Post: Oldest detergent soap

The first “self-acting” laundry detergent was launched by Henkel in the German market on June 6, 1907, and was given the name “Persil”. The name derived from the two most important chemical raw materials in the product, perborate and silicate.
Persil quickly made its name on the market, winning the trust of consumers. To assure consumers of the product’s consistently high quality, Persil was given a manufacturer’s warranty.
The “White Lady,” created in 1922, was Persil’s most famous advertising image. She featured on placards and metal signs until the beginning of the 1960s.
When she started smiling again for Persil in 1950 for the first time since the World War II, she conveyed to many Germans the feeling that lasting peace had finally arrived.

Today, both Henkel and Unilever manufacture their own formulations. Persil is Unilever's premium brand in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

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Flashback Tata Crucible Quiz Part 12

- The first product, the iron plough, was originally intended as an essential aid to agriculture, the plough soon became an icon of reform and revolution. Started by Laxmanrao in the early 1900’s which group is this?

- Two words come together to form the brand name Camlin. One of them is camel, which was chosen as a symbol due to its capacity to endure long periods of difficulty in the trips across deserts. What is the other word?

- This product of everyday use was registered as a trade name by English wholesaler Carless, Capel & Leonard in early 1890’s. Identify?

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The First Motor car

A Catholic priest named Father Ferdinand Verbiest has been said to have built a steam powered vehicle for the Chinese Emperor Chien Lung around 1678.

The first vehicle to move under its own power for which there is a record was designed by Nicholas Joseph Cugnot and constructed by M. Brezin in France in 1769. It ran on steam and on rails. A replica of this vehicle is on display at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, in Paris. Cugnot (1725 – 1804) was a French inventor and military engineer experimented with working models of steam-engine-powered vehicles for the French Army, intended for transporting cannon, starting in 1765 and built a working vehicle that was steam powered, using the steam to turn a piston that turned the wheels in 1769.

The first non-rail automobile was made by Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir (January 12, 1822 - August 4, 1900) he was a Belgian engineer, generally credited with designing the world's first internal-combustion engine.

The Lenoir Engine

By 1859, Lenoir's experimentation with electricity led him to develop the first internal combustion engine, a single-cylinder two-stroke engine which burnt a mixture of coal gas and air ignited by a "jumping spark" ignition system by Ruhmkorff coil, and which he patented in 1860.

Paul Allen sues Apple, Google, Facebook, others over Web patents

A firm owned by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen today sued Apple, Facebook, Google, YouTube, and seven other companies, charging them with infringing patents filed more than a decade ago.

Google and Facebook blasted the lawsuit as "unfortunate" and "without merit."

The complaint, filed Friday morning in a Seattle federal court, named AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo and Google's YouTube.

The matter of who owns innovation is at the heart of the lawsuit filed by Interval Licensing, a Seattle company owned and controlled by Allen that owns the patents awarded to Interval Research, a Palo Alto company founded by Allen and Xerox PARC veteran David Liddle in 1992.

Over nearly a decade, Interval Research employed 110 scientists who worked at the leading edge of personal computer and Internet technologies, winning about 300 patents. Many companies earn money through licensing patents that they own. The lawsuit did not specify monetary damages Interval is seeking.