April Fool becomes yet another marketing gimmick<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/april-fool-crushed-hi-tech-marketing-122201147--sector.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/yVcFK2H5O9VSIyHBifE5yA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-04-01T202519Z_1_CBRE9301KQC00_RTROPTP_2_GOOGLE-NEWYORKCITY-WIFI.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Google signage seen at the company's headquarters in New York" align="left" title="Google signage seen at the company's headquarters in New York" border="0" /></a>By Alastair Macdonald LONDON (Reuters) - The April Fool is dead. Or at least the gentle jester of the common folk has been converted into a corporate colossus controlled by global marketing executives. Companies around the world, from Google to BMW and Sony, have adopted the tradition of goading the gullible on April 1 to show their lighter sides and steal some free publicity. ...</p><br clear="all"/>
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