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Gates Foundation Announces Investments in McDonald's, Confusingly
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is dedicated to global health issues among other philanthropic causes, revealed yesterday that it just so happens to hold 740,000 shares of McDonald's stock. Wait, the same McDonald's that contributes to the obesity epidemic in our country? Doesn't that seem, I don't know, counterintuitive? You're paying for both the problem and the solution. That's just poor business sense, Bill. [Reuters via The Raw Feed]
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Weird Combo of the Day: NTT DoCoMo Teams with McDonalds
This definitely falls into our Weird Combo of the Day category. It seems Japan's two largest and highly unrelated companies have joined forces. Japan cellphone giant, NTT DoCoMo is teaming up with the always (not) delicious McDonalds restaurant. No, it won't be McDonalds-branded cellphones, but this agreement with promote DoCoMo's IC-card e-cash system in McDonalds restaurants. If you are part of Japan's McDonalds "membership club" (??) you can begin paying for food using your cellphone's contactless IC card system. Now you can just swipe your phone to receive a heart-attack, to go. More »
2:30 PM on Mon Feb 26 2007
By Travis Hudson
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Latest by captainmicahp: This seems more like a perfectly sensible combo, rather than a weird combo. One company has a system to pay for cheap items quickly, and the other sells cheap items, so what is weird about it? more »
gadgets
Robosapiens Invade McDonalds Happy Meals
Our favorite robot toys have gone mainstream, as WowWee and McDonalds are teaming up to put tlittle miniature versions of the toys into Happy Meals. More »
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Microsoft Prepping Zune Filling Stations
According to Microsoft's business chief Chris Stephenson, the company is planning on working with retail chains to provide "filling stations" for the Zune. Such classy places as McDonalds and Starbucks would be the idea place for Zune owners to hop in and download a song or two. More »
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McHacking: iZ IR Repeater
It's no secret that I occasionally frequent the golden arches, but now I've found a more reasonable excuse to partake in the greasy goodness than long term suicide. Apparently some of their happy meal toys can make a fun weekend project if you have a screwdriver and soldering iron. More »
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McDonalds: "I'm Lovin' Malware"
McDonalds Japan recently ran a contest giving away 10,000 MP3 players preloaded with 10 songs. However, the players were preloaded with QQpass malware - which transmits usernames, passwords, etc. off your computer. McDonalds set up a 24-hour hotline to troubleshoot the problem. Most conversations go something like this: More »
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Mickey Dee's Harnesses McSun for Chicago Billboard
We once knew a girl whose face was so ugly it could stop a sundial, so if she lives near Wrigley Field in Chicago, she won't have any way of knowing that it's time to stop eating Egg McMuffins and start digging into Big Macs. Ad agency Leo Burnett dreamed up this idea for a McDonald's billboard that takes us fast food junkies back to the ancient days of sundials, casting a shadow on a cup of McCoffee at 6 a.m., and moving along to other various delectable breakfast items until 11, when those scrumptious McDonald's fries are given the nod by the shadowy arches. More »
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Digital Happy Meals Make Kids Annoy Parents More Than Ever Before
Like they needed another reason to go to McDonalds, kids may be bothering their parents even more to hit the greasy fast-food chain if a recent patent application actually comes to fruition. The patent would involve both Disney and McDonalds and reveals plans to release a portable player that would feed kids bits and pieces of programming every time they came back to eat. Such an incentive could be included along with a Happy Meal, let's say. So you buy three Happy Meals and you get a full installment of a certain game, music album or movie. Forget the Star Wars action figure, this baby's going digital. All McDonalds needs is WiFi (coming soon...) and the actual hardware to make this scheme a reality. The patent suggests the product will have a memory card slot and will allow you to swap content with other devices, including your PC. Maybe they should also include coupons for a treadmill. More »
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McDonalds And Nintendo Partner For WiFi, Big Macs
Nintendo has been making all the moves lately. Now that WiFi for the DS is slowly approaching us from behind, Nintendo decided they needed more fat kids playing DS with WiFi, so they turned to none other than McDonalds. Nintendo has partnered with WiFi provider Wayport to provide free internet access to DS users who are down with going to a McDonalds in the US. Want to hear something funny though? Check this: More »
