Microsoft's free taxi blunder highlights green marketing risks

James S Murray
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Firms like Microsoft and Google only invite attacks from environmentalists if they don't consider green concerns in every aspect of their business

Few sectors have jumped on the green marketing bandwagon faster than the world's IT companies, but in their rush to associate themselves with the environmental business zeitgeist have some of the largest...

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