Wendy’s was founded in 1969, by Dave Thomas. Thomas named the restaurant after his fourth child, Melinda Lou “Wendy” Thomas. Until it was closed on March 2, 2007, the original Wendy’s restaurant had photographs and illustrations of her (as well as other memorabilia based upon her) on display.

With all the debating and upcoming elections, there are a lot of thoughts stirring, questions being asked, arguments, etc.

Not too long ago, Facebook paid approximately 1 billion dollars for Instagram,  free photo-sharing program and social network that has over one million registered users.

As it reaches one billion users, Facebook celebrates by running its first ad, created by Wieden & Kenedy (creators of Old Spice’s “Man your man could smell like” and Nike’s “Just Do It” slogan), and directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu.

Previously, Arby’s was owned by the same company that owns Wendy’s but is now owned by Roark Capital Group as of 2011, who owns around 1,100 of the locations with the rest being franchises in the U.S. and around the world, with a total of approximately 3,600 locations.

Apple has now come out with the iPhone 5, and has broken a company record last week, with the pre-order sales of over 2 million iPhone 5 handsets in 24 hours!

The most recent news in the logo design world is that of online logo design contest site, 99 Designs, expanding to Europe by buying out, 12Designer, a Berlin-based version of itself.

For the first time in 25 years Microsoft has changed it’s logo.

So…I have been following with interest all the debate on the 2012 Olympic logo, and am still not sure what my end decision is.

Everyone makes mistakes. I get that. But every once in a while a group or organization makes such a stupid mistake that it sets them apart from all other people who make mistakes.

Launched in ’95, Expedia arrived on the online travel booking scene to give some competition to rival Travelocity (1995) and eventually put all independent travel agents out of work.

When the model “Twiggy” appeared in a series of Olay ads looking much younger than her 59 years and claiming that the product she was advertising, “Definitely Eye Cream”, was responsible for the changes, people started crying foul.

You may have seen offers like these using Google’s name or logo that sounded too good to be true.