50% Of Domino’s Pizza Was Once Traded For An Used Volkswagen Beetle

Everyday we learn something new about the businesses that run the world’s engine. From companies associated with the Nazis to companies that sold sea-shells and later became one of the world’s largest oil companies. Today lets talk about the beginnings of Domino’s Pizza, the second largest pizza chain in the United States. In 1960, brothers Tom and James Monaghan bought DomiNick’s, a small pizza place in Ypsilanti, Michigan. They gave a… Read More →

Mark Zuckerberg And The NASDAQ Bell [Video]

Finally the moment has come. The moment many investors, aficionados, and the Facebook team were waiting for: Facebook going public. This Friday (5/18/2012) Facebook became officially a public company among Apple, Amazon, and Google and Mark became $19.1 billion richer. Since most of us missed the event, here is a video by Bloomberg showing the exact moment of Mark ringing the opening bell from the Facebook HQ:

Gmail Man: Microsoft Makes Fun Of Google

With the recent changes in privacy policies that Google has made across its line of products and not offering any opt-out options, users have raised concern over the lack of privacy and choices. For these users, Microsoft has been advertising better alternatives to Google products. “Better alternatives” being a subjective matter. On 02/02/2012, Microsoft uploaded a video to its Youtube account, a Google-owned property by the way. The video is called… Read More →

M&M’s Origin: Spanish Civil War & World War II

What is the answer to the old song: War, what is it good for? The answer: Good for tasty M&M’s. Forrest Mars, Sr., the founder of the Mars Company, got the idea for the M&M’s chocolate in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War when he saw soldiers eating chocolate pellets with a hard shell of tempered chocolate surrounding the inside, preventing the candies from melting. Forrest Mars received a patent for his… Read More →

Top 10 Sites That Blacked Out To Stop SOPA & PIPA [Images]

A list of the Top 10 highest-trafficked and influential websites that participated in the Stop SOPA/PIPA movement on January 18, 2012 along their screenshots of the blacked out pages, enjoy: Google - http://www.google.com/ Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Craigslist – http://www.craigslist.org Wired – http://www.wired.com/ Reddit – http://www.reddit.com Mozilla – http://www.mozilla.org/ Hacker News – http://news.ycombinator.com/ Twitpic – http://twitpic.com/ WordPress - http://wordpress.com/ Cheezburger Network - http://cheezburger.com/ Source (The Freedom of the Internet)

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The Founders Of Adidas and Puma Were Brothers… And Nazis

If it wasn’t because of a rivalry between two brothers, neither Puma nor Adidas might exist today. Adidas and Puma are among the most recognized brands in the world thanks to a bitter rivalry between two brothers from a village in Germany. In the 1920s, Adolf Dassler, a soft-spoken sports fanatic who spent hours working on shoe designs in his workshop, and Rudolf Dassler, a great salesman, started a small shoemaking business… Read More →

Apple’s Music Album: “The Apple Boogie”

Yes, we are going to write about Apple again, but this time is not about a technological device, a new application, or about Steve Jobs; we are writing about a music album (a cassette) that Apple produced and released in the late 1980s. “The Apple Boogie” is a collection of 8 tracks that are sure to inspire something in you, whether it is laughter, nostalgia, or wonder at how simply… Read More →

8 Pages Of Early Sketches For The iTunes Logo [Images]

Ever wondered what is it like to design a logo? Designing a logo is one of those things that sounds simple, because most logos used today are clean, simple, and without much noise. But don’t let a simple logo fool you, the process of drafting and creating one is actually tedious, repetitive, and at times frustrating; even more when Steve Jobs is micro-managing all your steps and ranting drafts he… Read More →

Sears Sold Cocaine… Lots of it

Isn’t cocaine illegal to sell and distribute in the United States? Yes, now. But that wasn’t the case back in the 1800s when Sears was still called Sears, Roebuck and Co. In the 1890s the Sears & Roebuck catalogue, which was distributed to millions of Americans homes, offered a syringe and a small amount of cocaine for $1.50. Yes, the place where you go to buy your appliances and wrenches used to sell… Read More →

T.G.I. Friday’s Was Founded To Meet Women

In 1965, Alan Stillman was a young man living in Manhattan selling perfume, who, in his own words, was “looking to meet girls.” The bar restaurant he founded, T.G.I. Friday’s, began life as a public cocktail party; the first neighborhood joint to welcome both men and women alike, with the motive to unite the two. Stillman lived in a neighborhood on the east side of Manhattan that had many single ladies; most were either models… Read More →

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