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Robots Come Out to Play in Latest General Electric Spot, Out of BBDO NY

BBDO New York taps artificially intelligent talent in its latest spot for GE, part of the brand's "GE Works" effort now focusing on "brilliant machines."

Many top luxury labels have pulled out of Argentina, but one is expanding: It's Lacoste, the French clothier whose shirts carry the green alligator label. The company is opening two big stores in Buenos Aires, supported by Lacoste's first factory outside France. Rudy Gotlib is the CEO of Lacoste's owner Vesuvio S.A. and he says in a statement issued Wednesday that the company invested nearly $3 million in the Argentine expansion, employing 1,200 Read more [...]

The "death flights" were among the more macabre innovations of Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship. The military planes that flew out over the wide Rio de la Plata and back returned missing many of their passengers: political prisoners who were drugged to sleep and thrown alive into the sea. A group of pilots who allegedly flew the missions are among the 68 suspects who went on trial Wednesday, charged with participating in hundreds of kidnappings, Read more [...]