Matt DeBord: Caitlin, Paul: I’ll kick off our discussion of how social media is changing how companies do business from an obvious place: the auto industry.
I’ve been keeping an eye on how carmakers are using Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter since last summer. There’s been good and bad. I liked how Ford (F) used YouTube to [...]

George Mc Quade talks about Social Media at Century City Rotary.

“Advertising is dead,” Vice President George Mc Quade told the Century City, CA Rotary luncheon today (Wed) at the Century Plaza Hotel’s Breeze restaurant.
“Now that I have your attention, I want to talk about the importance of Social Media, and why you can’t ignore it as [...]

Richard Wald now teaches at the Columbia Journalism School. But for many years, he was a leading figure in the news business, first in print, then running NBC News and finally with Roone Arledge during ABC’s heyday. Wald is the man who brought David Brinkley to Sunday morning for ABC. So when he wrote this [...]

After years of complaints that the Oscars had gotten too long and unwieldy, the Motion Picture Academy keeps trying, mostly unsuccessfully, to pare the ceremony down to a manageable length. But a few million lucky folks on Sunday night watched a shorter program than everyone else: Courtesy of ABC and Cablevision (CVC), they got the [...]

After years of complaints that the Oscars had gotten too long and unwieldy, the Motion Picture Academy keeps trying, mostly unsuccessfully, to pare the ceremony down to a manageable length. But a few million lucky folks on Sunday night watched a shorter program than everyone else: Courtesy of ABC and Cablevision (CVC), they got the [...]

Cablevision customers in the New York area were able to start watching the Oscars about 15 minutes into the start of the program Sunday, when ABC restored its local affiliate’s signal after pulling it due to a fee dispute.

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One of the most exciting things about Facebook for advertisers is the ability to target ads to appear in front of a specific group of people. This is a huge opportunity for companies that sell products or services that only appeal to a certain demographic. For example, wedding photographers can target recently “engaged” women on [...]

Taking an airline flight will usually get you from point A to point B– except when your flight is cancelled.
For example, for if you are a business travelor attempting to get from New York to Boston on Delta Airlines Flight 1392, you may want to consider this:
According to the Federal Bureau of [...]

Wall Street and Hollywood have a ton in common—they both deal in the unknowable and get paid as though they are omniscient. For every trader who lost a bonus over some disastrous subprime bond, there’s a producer who will never work again because of an expensive flop like Funny People.
Sometimes finance and filmmaking get it right, however. And [...]

Filed under: Products and Services, Law, Toyota Motor Corp. (TM), Scandals, Japan
Toyota Motor Company (TM) continues to find itself in arguably the biggest crisis in the auto maker’s history, and today more accusations were made against the company. The company is back in the news today with accusations that Toyota tried to hide data in [...]