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Department store chain Neiman Marcus paired with blog ThisNext.com to create Shoe Dish, the first Facebook application where consumers can share shoes with their friends and buy them on-site.

NEW YORK – The emergence and popularity of street style is just as influential to consumers as designers’ looks on the runways, according to the Style.com editor in chief at the WWD Apparel and Retail CEO Summit 2011.

Many luxury marketers from hotels to lifestyle publications are now creating mobile travel applications. These types of efforts are likely to stick around, which could prove handy for brands.

NEW YORK – As social shopping and Facebook commerce begin to take off, luxury brands need to realize that social media is an outlet that can be leveraged to help marketers learn about their fans and reward them, according to fashion designer Tory Burch.

NEW YORK – Rather than deciding to work on one or two developments each year, Barneys New York prides itself on working on all facets simultaneously to move forward technologically and creatively, according to its CEO.

Montblanc is emphasizing its timepieces, rather than its iconic writing instruments, with a new ecommerce site and a microsite dedicated to the 190th anniversary of its Chronograph watch to celebrate the first time that U.S. consumers can buy watches from the brand.

British society magazine Tatler is moving the luxury lifestyle from print to mobile through its Tatler Restaurant Guide 2011 application for the iPhone.

Google recently changed its search algorithms that may affect marketers, retailers, publishers and service providers. Here are 10 tweaks designed to keep Google and legitimate marketers steps ahead of those who game the system.

At one point taking a backseat to the much-more-hyped women’s apparel, luxury menswear is now the most quickly-rising and lucrative segment of the industry, causing female-centric designers to pay more attention to the other half of the population.

In what the company calls “one of the most comprehensive social media programs created for a luxury hotel brand,” The Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is using Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and foursquare to market the launch of a global spa initiative.

German automaker BMW is centering its end-of-year marketing around its i8 and 6-Series starring roles in the upcoming Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol movie due out in December.

Audi of America is continuing its Audi Urban Future Initiative program by partnering with Columbia University to identify new paradigms of motion, mobility and design in its Experiments in Motion initiative launched last week.

The Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills last week completed the installation of 285 iPads in its guest rooms and suites, which are already proving popular with the hotel’s trendy guests.

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If you have ever tried logging into a mobile application or Web site from your smartphone or tablet, you know that typing passwords for authentication is at best clunky and, at worst, ineffective.

British brand Burberry is one of the first companies to take advantage of the new Google+ business pages, nearly completing the social media spectrum and tapping a new channel on which to engage consumers.