Tuesday, February 21, 2012

How Companies Learn Your Secrets

Target can tell if a women is pregnant before she tells anyone by the change in her shopping habits?! Brilliant or creepy?

... And if they throw in a random lawnmower into the mailer so she doesn't know she is being spied on, she is even more likely to use the coupons. Read more in the NYT. (Thanks, Neil)

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .