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Tapping a New Demographic

Apr 01, 2009

Blogger Daniel MacArthur says that 23andMe's latest move is "sheer marketing genius." The personal genomics company launched a service aimed at pregnant women and recruited a cadre of "mommy bloggers" to do it.

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