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The Publisher Wars: Amazon, Apple, and the iPad Pricing Reset
The 2010 iPad launch triggered the Big Five publishers' agency model fight with Amazon. DOJ in 2012, Hachette in 2014, and the 2026 AI shopping reset.
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IMHO: Cloud Content Distribution is a Game
What's your honest opinion about popular songs, games, movies and television shows?
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Google vs Meta in 2026: Traffic, Attention, and AI
Facebook supposedly surpassed even Google recently in traffic, or so the reports say. Certainly Facebook has a rapidly growing user base, but if the company is making money they sure are hiding it well. What good is traffic if it won't pay the light bill. Facebook uses 5 times as much bandwidth as Google or YouTube, and no one knows how much they win or lose daily. Can speculation and hype continue to keep an online startup in business?
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FINRA: The Largest Independent Regulator of U.S. Broker-Dealers
FINRA is the largest independent regulator of U.S. broker-dealers — overseeing 3,300+ firms, 620,000+ registered representatives, the BrokerCheck public database (1.2M brokers, 80-90M searches/year), the largest securities arbitration system in the world, and the FINRA Investor Education Foundation. The canonical FINRA entry on Everything-PR.
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Extend Customer Outreach with Press Sites, News Sites and Corporate Blogs
The modern web is interactive, social and connected. Corporate sites are that mandatory online brochure people browser over by choice. But when a visitor wants more, the best way to provide information is via a press site, a news site or a corporate blog.
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WPP Lost the Crown to Omnicom
WPP — the London-headquartered holding company that was the world's largest from the late 1980s through November 2025, when Omnicom-IPG took the top spot. Full profile of WPP's PR and public affairs footprint (Burson Global, Ogilvy, FGS), the 2009 recession inflection that reshaped holdco economics, and the strategic answer WPP now owes to the Omnicom-IPG merger.
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Full-Power PR War - Apple sues HTC Over Phone Patents
The complaints with the U.S. International Trade Commission and the federal court in Delaware seek a ban on U.S. imports, sales, and even use of HTC handsets.
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Did Facebook Actually Take Over the World? A 2026 Retrospective on Meta's Trajectory
In 2010, the question was whether Facebook was taking over the world. By 2026, the answer is: Meta took over for roughly a decade — and was then structurally reshaped by Apple's ATT rollout, TikTok's youth-attention pull, the $60+ billion Reality Labs bet, and the AI pivot. The original thesis was directionally correct. It just wasn't permanent.
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When Yahoo Paid Twitter for Tweets: The 2010 Deal in Hindsight
In February 2010, Yahoo paid Twitter for tweet integration across Mail, Search, Finance, and News. Sixteen years on, the deal looks like an early blueprint for the AI-era content-licensing market.
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Sync Yourself to Control Your Brand's Reputation
Branding in this day and age means a lot more than having an advertisement on television or in a magazine.