#TheDailySpin: Fortune cookie gaffe melts Ben & Jerry’s

The company added fortune cookies to its new Jeremy Lin frozen yogurt. Plus, iFakes on the rise, mobile jargon, reminisce about your first car, PETA killing animals, and more.

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And to think that a hashtag helped fuel the Lin hype. Just goes to show the power of the hashtag and why its use in marketing is on the rise.

Perhaps Ben & Jerry’s should just focus on developing more Greek Fro Yo flavors, the cultural phenomenon is now doing $1 billion in business in the U.S.

Also on the rise in the U.S. are what we’re going to call iFones, street-peddled knockoffs of the popular Apple mobile device.

You never know. If the practice of selling the fakes continues, the word might snag a spot on this list of buzzwords in the mobile industry.

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