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Give twice the gifts this year with Gap and (RED). Visit your Gap store tomorrow, and we'll contribute 1% of all sales to fight AIDS in Africa.

Video presentation of the new Audi A8.
The new Audi A8 celebrates it's world premiere at this year's Design Miami 2009 on November 30th.
Watch it live on www.audi.tv.

Walmart had 14.97 percent of of the traffic among the top 500 most-visited retail web sites on Thursday, up 9 percent from 13.72 percent a year ago. Amazon.com was second with 12.41 percent, up 30 percent from 9.56 percent a year ago. And Best Buy had 6.22 percent of online traffic, up 3 percent from 6.05 percent a year ago.

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Chanel recently launched the Paris Shanghai website devoted to the World Premiere opening 'Shanghai Chanel boutique'.
See the online videos: Behind the scenes of Chanel’s Paris-Shanghai collection.

"I do not like when one speaks of the Chanel fashion. Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains." quoted Gabrielle Chanel.

Watch the prefall of Chanel on Youtube.

Brands are mainly using Facebook for awareness campaigns and customer service oriented feedback. Facebook is also being used for contests, user-generated content (photos, stories, video), games, widget or badge downloads, polls and surveys, special offers, online coupons or access to early/exclusive information or pricing.

Fifty-four percent of respondents currently use social media for marketing. That was up 9 percentage points from November 2008 and about 4 points from June 2009, showing a steady increase in B2B participation.

It's also interesting to notice that more than a quarter of US B2B companies are using social media to generate awareness, followed by customer engagement.

In Washington, DC, Google announced the preliminary roll-out of automatic captioning in YouTube, an innovation that takes advantage of our speech recognition technology to turn the spoken word into text captions. We also announced that if you have a transcript of your video, you can upload it to YouTube and we'll time the captions for you.

Over 60 accessibility leaders from the National Association of the Deaf, Gallaudet University, AAPD and other organizations joined us to be the first to learn about these new features.

Remember Facebook allows you create Friends lists in the same way of Twitter so you'll be free to select your own personal shopping list: a good way to be the first to catch the best offers and deals on Facebook fans pages.