
100 iPad Apps for Public Relations and Small Business
100 iPad applications that can be used by public relations professionals in their line of work.

100 iPad applications that can be used by public relations professionals in their line of work.

MDC Partners-owned Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners from New York has acquired a majority stake in Kwittken & Company, a public relations agency in New York. This is the third transaction in five months for MDC Partners involving a public relations agency, and the sixth in the past year.

Associated Press (AP) announced last week bloggers should be credited as news sources in a letter to its members. This decision has a tremendous impact on how bloggers will affect the news agenda and the overall news industry.

Coyne PR's press release, brilliantly titled "Americans Confess - Wags Speak Louder Than Words" for Del Monte's Pup-Peroni® dog snacks was part of a PR campaign that, to date, generated 1,179 stories, resulting in over 42.7 million media impressions.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has settled a complaint it made against a public relations firm Reverb Communications which accused them of using employees to pose as ordinary customers and post reviews of video games on Apple's iTunes store. The settlement and requires Reverb to delete all misleading reviews and to never use such methods without proper disclosure.

Freeline Sports, Inc., a U.S. based action-sports company with worldwide distribution for its dual independent skates has engaged JMPR Public Relations for its media relations outreach and initiatives.

Are you interested in a career in PR? Penman PR has about 30 job openings waiting for you.

Good news power the PR industry as new report released by Veronis Suhler Stevenson forecasts that by 2014 PR spending in the US will reach 4.4 billion US dollars, up from this year’s estimate of 3.4 billion, and following a rebound from 2009 lower amounts spent on public relations.

Are your marketing and PR strategies effective in today's environment, or are you drowning in the information flood? Consumers today have too much information. How will you get their attention?

A brand new Romanian tourism branding effort is underway, but not without some skepticism. A Spanish company developed a less than perfect logo leaving some to wonder what the final tourism pitch will look like. But no pitch or campaign can cover the potholes in Romania's weathered infrastructure.