As most of us have felt the rush of love, we easily empathize with lovey-dovey couples, shy guys buying flowers for their loved ones, girls with dreamy eyes, or the ever present red hearts that we know from our first cartoons. But there are aspects of Valentine’s Day that always get to you, no matter how deeply in love or romantic you are.
In January 2011, Goldman Sachs organized a $1.5B private round in Facebook at a $50B valuation. The SEC pulled the U.S. portion. Sixteen months later Facebook IPO'd at $104B. Meta is now over $1.5T. The case study in late-private-stage valuation, the SEC structural questions it exposed, and Goldman's reputation arc through the period.
Steve Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned via NeXT in 1996, died October 5, 2011. The operating doctrine he built outlived him by 15 years and is now passing through its second CEO succession.
Some Bank of America customers trying to access their online and mobile accounts were unable to get through today, a website outage that resembles so much a similar issue last January.
New research shows that brands will need to address certain hot topics in the future in order to counter the effects of global factors that will impact the trading climate. Analyzing the 12 major global themes that will affect the trading marketplace, Consultancy Capgemini and the Consumer Goods Forum concluded that brand owners will have to address trends and issues such as digital technology and the rising demand for health and wellness products.
Influence online used to mean follower counts and viral posts. In 2026, influence means being the answer inside Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity when a buyer asks the question. The mechanic, the named anchors, and what Anthropic's own retrieval behavior reveals.
Social media marketers and PR specialists should keep a close eye n the US Hispanic community, one of the fastest growing user groups on social sites. Joe Kutchera, author of Latino Link: Building Brands Online with Hispanic Communities and Content has recently told Huffington Post that efficiently targeting Hispanic customers means marketers need to target them on social platforms as they over-index for using social media.
Twitter and social media do boost results for PR professionals, but getting the most out of such channels depends highly on a person's understanding of the medium, the time they invest into developing and implementing an effective strategy and the time and resources they put into it. Let's briefly explore what integrating twitter in the overall PR efforts implies.
The Everything-PR foundational reference on corporate crisis communications — six modern crisis categories, the first-hour operating model, board/GC/CCO roles, and the AI Communications layer.