3 posts and columns on makeup

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Vipshop Bags $20M To Bring Flash Sales To Chinese Consumers

in News on November 8, 2010 at 1:19 pm PT

Chinese venture capitalists are buying into the country’s “flash sales” membership-based retail websites, as online shoppers in the country get a taste of steep discounts on the gilded life through offerings from retailers like newly funded start-up Vipshop.

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Electronic Mirrors Sell Lipstick and a Makeover

in News on August 27, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Cosmetics aisles in supermarkets and drugstores are adding electronic makeover specialists with the help of an Israeli start-up. Retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., France’s Carrefour SA and Superdrug Stores PLC in Britain are testing EZface Inc.’s “virtual mirrors” in their stores to simulate what makeup and hair dye would look like on shoppers.

Bartz's (S)mash Note to Ballmer: The Photographic Proof

in News on May 29, 2009 at 3:07 pm PT

If a search and advertising partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft is ever struck, perhaps a little CEO-to-CEO note-passing should get some credit. Yesterday, we wrote about the purple Post-It that Bartz passed to Ballmer via the makeup person in the D: All Things Digital Green Room. Here’s the photographic proof!
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