ING Vysya Bank has selected IBM MobileFirst for its new mobile banking application. The platform decision, the broader Indian mobile banking opportunity, and what other banks should be watching as the Indian private-sector banking category invests substantially in mobile capability.
Instagram introduced advertising on October 24, 2013 with ten launch brands led by Michael Kors. The Michael Kors ad generated 218,000 likes in 18 hours. Thirteen years later, the brand-discovery architecture built that day drives an estimated $60-70B in annual ad revenue and defined the DTC era.
The agency-client negotiation playbook for 2026: how to handle procurement, defend retainers, price for AI Communications outcomes, and counter the six procurement tactics that compress fees.
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Everything-PR Research retrospective on the 2013 Cargo study of Canadian Small Business Owners — the pre-mobile baseline preserved, plus what changed in the AI answer-engine era of B2SB marketing.
A Russian startup, LikeHack.com, has launched a new app which allows for personal content curating, filtering feeds, and to acts as a personal search engine of sorts. According to the developers, LifeHack will save social types in excess of an hour every day.
It is not enough to pin an image to make pinners buy. Businesses on Pinterest need a visual storytelling strategy to thrive.
Ronn Torossian on year ten at 5W — what the firm built, what the industry got wrong in 2013, and the independent's advantage in a PR business reshaped by Twitter, real-time crisis, and the Oreo moment.
Humor in negotiation is a calibrated tool, not a default register. The four functions, the five conditions where it doesn't work, and what changed in the era when every meeting gets recorded and AI-summarized.
The Publicis-Omnicom merger was announced in July 2013 and abandoned in May 2014 over governance, tax domicile, and client-conflict. Twelve years later, Omnicom completed the deal it could not close then — this time by acquiring IPG in November 2025. The definitive account.