BEIJING (Reuters) - China's premier called for additional efforts to support growth on Sunday, signaling Beijing's willingness to take action after a recent series of economic indicators suggested that the world's second-biggest economy will slow further in the second quarter. "We should continue to implement a proactive fiscal policy and a prudent monetary policy while giving more priority to ...
i recently reported that the cmo survey found companies expect to increase the marketing analytics portion of their marketing budgets by 60% from 5.7% to 9.1% in the next three years. this is a monumental increase especially given that marketing budgets overall have grown only 8.3% over the last two years. while impressive, the true mark of whether marketing analytics is going live up to its ...
outbid , the online auction service that combines the theater and transparency of live auctions with social and gaming features, has announced the addition of amy h
herndon, va-- - volkswagen of america today announced the appointment of kevin e. mayer, 42, to the post of vice president, marketing, for the volkswagen brand. mayer will lead and direct all aspects of ...
earlier this week we profiled digital marketing execs from general mills and ge on how they?re running their organizations like publishers. for our third and final installment in this series on content marketing, we sat down with julia fitzgerald, chief digital officer, fitness, sporting goods & toys at sears holdings and gilad de vries from best of breed content discovery platform, outbrain.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Thirty of China's biggest state-owned businesses have signed contracts worth about 350 billion yuan ($55.3 billion) with the southwestern municipality Chongqing, Chinese media reported on Sunday, in a sign of Beijing's determination to bolster confidence in the city formerly run by ousted leader Bo Xilai. Since the fall of the once high-flying Chinese official, media reports...
The chairman of Pakistan's telecommunications authority says the government has blocked the social networking website Twitter because of material considered offensive to Islam.
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richelle parham, chief marketing officer of ebay marketplaces, north america, has been elected to the board of directors of scripps networks interactive inc.
(Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp said on Saturday it had negotiated new contracts with two smaller unions at its Fort Worth, Texas plant, even as a strike by the larger machinists union stretched into a fifth week. Lockheed said about 70 members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) on Friday ratified a new contract that would extend for four years. On Saturday, a new fi...
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The Seaway pipeline began pumping crude from Cushing, Oklahoma, oil tanks to the heart of the U.S. refining industry in Houston on Saturday, marking a historic shift in the way oil flows across the United States. The first barrels went into the line about noon CDT (1700 GMT) Saturday and volumes were expected to increase within days to 150,000 barrels per day (bpd), spokesma...
sao paulo, may 16, 2012 /prnewswire/ -- the mobile marketing association (mma), the leading global trade association for the mobile industry, today announces the launch of mma mexico. the newest of the ...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen's Audi division is looking into a management reshuffle as it eyes an expansion in China, Latin America and the United States, the unit's head told a German magazine. "Against the backdrop of Audi's 'Strategy 2020' it would be negligent not to think about the team line-up," Audi Chief Executive Rupert Stadler told WirtschaftsWoche in an excerpt of an article made...
Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week.
Like many Greeks left unemployed by their country's economic tailspin, Dimitris Spachos finds it easier to talk about his nation's problems than his own.
you may have seen the news that p&g is moving top executives for its skin care and other businesses from cincinnati to singapore. global marketing is a topic i am hearing more and more about from chief marketing officers, and so we?re tapping corporate executive board?s global executive network to sort out rules of the road and best practices.
hipcricket®, inc. , the one-stop mobile marketing and advertising subsidiary of augme® technologies, inc. , today announced that nestlé waters north america has extended its relationship with hipcricket by tapping the mobile solution provider to manage and execute its new mobile marketing campaign with the pantry’s kangaroo express.
cambridge, mass., may 17, 2012 /prnewswire-ireach/ -- for the better part of the last 12 months, we have been working diligently behind the scenes to add a completely revised email marketing system and ...
london, united kingdom-- - high street fashion leaders, new look, has picked up another award with vouchercodes.co.uk for best use of affiliate marketing as part of a multi-channel campaign at the 2012 ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Manulife Financial Corp and Metlife are among the companies that have submitted first round bids for ING's entire Asia life insurance business, sources said on Saturday, in what could be the largest Asia M&A insurance deal ever. ING's long awaited sale of Asian life insurance and the asset management units will help the Dutch bancassurer to partly repay the 3 billion euros...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lead Facebook Inc underwriter Morgan Stanley took a bet earlier this week when it increased the size of the social networking firm's $16 billion initial public offering and it boosted the price. Thanks to massive hype surrounding Facebook's historic public offering, the wager looked safe. But a rocky first day of trading has raised questions about whether it paid off. After...
(Reuters) - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has opened an investigation into possible wrongdoing at JPMorgan Chase & Co in connection with the bank's multi-billion-dollar trading loss, a source familiar with the probe told Reuters. The agency will soon disclose the existence of the investigation, the source said on Friday. Earlier on Friday, the New York Times reported that the ...
atlanta, may 18, 2012 /prnewswire-ireach/ -- infinitee, a full-service marketing and advertising agency in atlanta, launched a new website this month, www.infinitee.com , to showcase the addition of inbound ...
vancouver, british columbia-- - bcama's annual flagship marketing conference , vision, will take place on wednesday, may 23rd at the westin bayshore hotel in vancouver. conference attendees will listen ...
marketing analytics companies are linking call data to web and mobile traffic to give a clearer picture than ever before of what your marketing dollar is actually doing.
i recently reported that the cmo survey found companies expect to increase the marketing analytics portion of their marketing budgets by 60% from 5.7% to 9.1% in the next three years. this is a monumental increase especially given that marketing budgets overall have grown only 8.3% over the last two years. while impressive, the true mark of whether marketing analytics is going live up to its ...
outbid , the online auction service that combines the theater and transparency of live auctions with social and gaming features, has announced the addition of micha
herndon, va-- - volkswagen of america today announced the appointment of kevin e. mayer, 42, to the post of vice president, marketing, for the volkswagen brand. mayer will lead and direct all aspects of ...
earlier this week we profiled digital marketing execs from general mills and ge on how they?re running their organizations like publishers. for our third and final installment in this series on content marketing, we sat down with julia fitzgerald, chief digital officer, fitness, sporting goods & toys at sears holdings and gilad de vries from best of breed content discovery platform, outbrain.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers aims to break even by mid-2014, as the American union looks to bolster its political and bargaining clout. For the past five years, the UAW has relied heavily on selling its war chest of stocks, bonds and property to bridge the gap between its annual funding and costs. The union believes this approach is untenable in the long run and its goal is to "...
HOT AND DRY: Wheat futures soared another 5.7 percent Friday as concerns persisted about hot weather in the Southern Plains and the Ohio River Valley. Wheat is now up 16 percent this week.
you may have seen the news that p&g is moving top executives for its skin care and other businesses from cincinnati to singapore. global marketing is a topic i am hearing more and more about from chief marketing officers, and so we’re tapping corporate executive board’s global executive network to sort out rules of the road and best practices.
hipcricket®, inc. , the one-stop mobile marketing and advertising subsidiary of augme® technologies, inc. , today announced that nestlé waters north america has extended its relationship with hipcricket by tapping the mobile solution provider to manage and execute its new mobile marketing campaign with the pantry’s kangaroo express.
sao paulo, may 16, 2012 /prnewswire/ -- the mobile marketing association (mma), the leading global trade association for the mobile industry, today announces the launch of mma mexico. the newest of the ...
HAVANA (Reuters) - Spanish oil giant Repsol said Friday that the first of three planned wells in Cuban waters was unsuccessful, a blow to Cuba's hopes for energy independence. "I can confirm that the Repsol well in Cuba has been reported to be unsuccessful and that we are proceeding to plug and abandon the well," a Repsol spokesman told Reuters. Repsol operated the well in a consortium with Nor...
Children's trampolines with a dangerous defect and a line of crib tents that have already proved deadly for one child are among this week's recalled products. Others include defective safety locks meant to keep children out of cabinets and climbing ropes with a dangerous flaw.
Crude oil prices fell Friday ahead of a weekend meeting in which President Barack Obama and leaders of the world's biggest economies will search for ways to help Europe resolve its ongoing debt crisis.
On Friday crude oil prices fell ahead of a weekend meeting in which President Barack Obama and leaders of the world's biggest economies will search for ways to help Europe resolve its ongoing debt crisis. Here's how energy contracts traded.
If you're lucky enough to live in some parts of the United States, you may see gas pump prices fall to around $3.25 a gallon or less in the next week or two. Even West Coast drivers should get some relief from prices that are still above $4 a gallon.
cambridge, mass., may 17, 2012 /prnewswire/ -- just in time for the facebook ipo, there's now an app for tracking facebook fan growth (and much more!) vs. the competition. all-in-one marketing software ...
vancouver, british columbia-- - bcama's annual flagship marketing conference , vision, will take place on wednesday, may 23rd at the westin bayshore hotel in vancouver. conference attendees will listen ...
richelle parham, chief marketing officer of ebay marketplaces, north america, has been elected to the board of directors of scripps networks interactive inc.
(Reuters) - Wall Street banks will report sharp declines in trading and investment banking revenues in the second quarter because of weaker client activity, JPMorgan analyst Kian Abouhossein said in a report on Friday. Fixed income, currency and commodities trading revenue is likely to be particularly challenged for a group of banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Morgan Stanley , droppin...
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian carmaker Fiat said 5,000 office workers at its Mirafiori factory will be laid off for three days in June and three days in July. Car sales in Italy fell 20 percent in the first three months of the year, and are in their fifth year of decline. "When we sell less, we produce less, and therefore our office staff also works less as a consequence," a spokesman said on Frida...
(Reuters) - Kraft Foods said on Friday it is has reduced prices on many of its coffees in the United States, including its flagship brand Maxwell House, by approximately 6 percent, effective immediately. "These changes reflect sustained decreases in the cost of green coffee," spokeswoman Bridget MacConnell told Reuters in an email. (Reporting By Marcy Nicholson; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)
SOLAR STORM: China rejected a U.S. antidumping ruling against its makers of solar power equipment. The conflict has worsened U.S.-Chinese trade tensions. The two governments have pledged to cooperate in developing renewable energy but accuse each other of violating free-trade pledges by subsidizing their own manufacturers.
Facebook is the hottest Internet company to hit the stock market since Google went public in 2004. The Silicon Valley companies, located seven miles apart, also happen to be locked in a bitter battle for Web surfers' allegiance and online advertisers' money. The duel is likely to intensify now that the IPO has given Facebook Inc.'s social network billions of dollars to battle Google Inc.'s domi...
The head of a U.S.-owned marine salvage company chosen to remove the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship from the waters off Tuscany is predicting the vessel will be ready for towing by early next year.
outbid , the online auction service that combines the theater and transparency of live auctions with social and gaming features, has announced the addition of micha
herndon, va-- - volkswagen of america today announced the appointment of kevin e. mayer, 42, to the post of vice president, marketing, for the volkswagen brand. mayer will lead and direct all aspects of ...
earlier this week we profiled digital marketing execs from general mills and ge on how they’re running their organizations like publishers. for our third and final installment in this series on content marketing, we sat down with julia fitzgerald, chief digital officer, fitness, sporting goods & toys at sears holdings and gilad de vries from best of breed content discovery platform, outbrain.
MILAN (Reuters) - The average lifespan of Italian debt, which has fallen during the euro zone crisis as investors favor safer short-term issues, should still be close to the current level of 6.8 years at the end of 2012, a top Italian debt official said. As the average maturity of a country's debts falls, the amount of bonds it has to sell each year rises. This makes it more exposed to a worsen...
Oil prices edged toward $93 a barrel Friday as financial markets stabilized after a sharp two-week sell-off caused by the latest flare-up in Europe's debt crisis and a gloomy economic outlook.
HSBC may decide to sell its U.K. retail banking operations, depending on the impact of yet to be announced new banking regulations, published reports say.
hipcricket®, inc. , the one-stop mobile marketing and advertising subsidiary of augme® technologies, inc. , today announced that nestlé waters north america has extended its relationship with hipcricket by tapping the mobile solution provider to manage and execute its new mobile marketing campaign with the pantry’s kangaroo express.
you may have seen the news that p&g is moving top executives for its skin care and other businesses from cincinnati to singapore. global marketing is a topic i am hearing more and more about from cmos, and so we’re tapping ceb’s global executive network to sort out rules of the road and best practices.
campbell soup company today announced the appointment of adam kmiec as director, digital marketing and social media. kmiec, 32, will lead campbell’s digital marketing an
marketing analytics companies are linking call data to web and mobile traffic to give a clearer picture than ever before of what your marketing dollar is actually doing.
sao paulo, may 16, 2012 /prnewswire/ -- the mobile marketing association (mma), the leading global trade association for the mobile industry, today announces the launch of mma mexico. the newest of the ...
(Reuters) - The United States imposed punitive tariffs on solar panel imports from China, the latest in a series of trade disputes between the world's two biggest economies and sparking accusations by Beijing of protectionism. The new tariffs of around 30 percent, much bigger than had been expected, were set on Thursday by the U.S. Commerce Department after it ruled in favor of local firms whic...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission and the European Central Bank are working on scenarios in case Greece has to leave the euro zone, EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht has said. Speculation about such planning has been rife, but the comments in a newspaper interview, confirmed by a person close to De Gucht, appear to be the first time an EU official has acknowledged the existence of...
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