
99designs' GAP Logo Community Contest
99designs used the opportunity to get media attention by organizing its own design a better GAP logo community contest.

99designs used the opportunity to get media attention by organizing its own design a better GAP logo community contest.

Everything PR News shines the spotlight on small agency chief Meredith Vaughan, Vladimir Jones dynamic superstar PR. In Colorado at least, industry and innovation take on a slightly milder tone. Whether this has anything to do with medicinal marijuana usage, that is anyone's guess. The connection between altitude and attitude seems clear.

ProBlogger just turned 6 and Darren Rowse's industry changing vision is going stronger than ever. Everything PR News wishes Darren and ProBlogger many happy returns. We should all return to the storehouses of knowledge from whence we first learned - remember the principles that can make us all great. Long live blogs.

Motorola’s new Android-based smart phone, Defy, will be officially launched on 25th season premiere of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Defy's main quality is its durability, complemented by other common modern smart phone feature, and will be available by this winter holiday season.

Japanese auto maker Toyota announced the safety recall o 1.3 million Corollas due to engine technical problems which might have caused three accidents. This raises the total number of cars recalled worldwide this year to around 10 million.

As the new school year begins, a new large group becomes target audience for educational institutions: small business owners. As they put effort into expanding their knowledge and acquiring new skills to help them grow their business, colleges, universities, trade or support groups, chambers of commerce and even government agencies are tempting them with business courses, programs, certifications and degrees.

The tablet is going to attack the Apple iPad directly on many levels, a lot like the multitude of other devices that have flooded the market trying to improve on the iPad's perceived weaknesses. It will support Adobe Flash, and is expected to be thinner and lighter than the iPad. Motorola's tablet will also support tethering, have two cameras -- one front-facing for video conferences and a rear-facing for taking photographs.

The International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC Worldwide) will host a social media seminar in New York July 26 - 28, 2010.

Is Tony Hayward BP's biggest PR problem? Hardly. He is a PR liability. But at this point, any action BP takes will be scrutinized and dissected.

A couple of days after the massive recall of 28 million cereal boxes, Kellogg's issued a press statement explaining the withdrawn products did not meet quality standards, but did not contain health threatening substances. While some consumers did experience nausea, vomiting and other such symptoms, they were caused by the off taste and smell of the cerials, not by potentially harmful components in the product or its packaging.