“We just made history,” tweeted the campaign managers of Barack Obama four years ago, a reference, among other things, to the effective use of social media throughout the Obama campaign. If John F. Kennedy was the first American president to have used the new medium, television, to his advantage, Obama was the first one to use social media, successfully managing a flourishing grassroots campaign. Regardless of who becomes the next occupant of the White House, the U.S. presidential elections tomorrow will not be the elections that made history. It was the 2008 elections. “If not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not be president or even the democratic nominee,” Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post website boldly said following Obama’s win in 2008.
Zurich/Switzerland - Barry Callebaut, the world's leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products, announced today the building of a factory for chocolate and compounds in Eskisehir, Turkey. The new facility will serve as a basis to participate in the further growth potential of the Turkish chocolate market as well as to capture opportunities in the regional market.
Just weeks after its much-heralded arrival in the UK, US yoghurt heavyweight Chobani is facing a potentially damaging lawsuit in the High Court over its right to use the term ‘Greek yoghurt’. Fage, the Greek owner of the Total Greek Yoghurt brand, is suing Chobani because it wants it to stop describing the yoghurts it sells in the UK - and which are made in the US - as ‘Greek yoghurt’. Only yoghurt made in Greece should be called ‘Greek’, it argues - products made elsewhere should be described as ‘Greek-style’ instead.
The first 16 beneficiaries of a £26m gift from a record label have begun their studies in Oxford. Mica Ertegun, widow of Atlantic founder Ahmet Ertegun, has given the money to the University of Oxford. It has been used to fully fund the humanities scholars and refurbish a four-storey study centre. The university said it hoped to bring in rock stars as guest lecturers to "broaden the students' cultural horizons". The scholarship is expected to grow to fund at least 35 Ertegun scholars each year and to last forever.
