An advanced college or graduate school degree used to be a major asset, but the realities of today’s fast changing business climate require a staff with deep skills and ability in rapid learning and continuous development. Specified knowledge still has its merit, but organizations that solely rely on yesterday’s knowledge won’t be around very long. […]
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In April 2016, the mattress startup Casper sued three popular mattress review sites, claiming they drove business to Casper competitors without proper disclosure that these mattress brands paid sales commissions to the sites. The schemes, in Casper’s view, amounted to false advertising and deceptive practices because the sites promoted their reviews as unbiased but did
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In what is being touted as the “Olympics of the corporate world,” Amazon has set off a ferocious bidding war among North American cities to host the online retailer’s second headquarters. While deals of this kind are usually done behind the scenes, Amazon has publicly solicited bids from cities to become the location of its
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For the regular Joe, AI is becoming an increasing threat to job security with robots projected to replace humans in a variety of fields. However, the threat could be even graver than mere job-hungry robots as some are now speculating that bots could ultimately start a third world war. In a Twitter post, Elon Musk
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PNR: This Old Marketing with Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose can be found on both iTunes and Stitcher. If you enjoy our show, we would love it if you would rate it or post a review on iTunes. In this week’s episode Robert ponders whether to learn to be big or accept that you’d rather stay
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Disney just announced that effective 2019, its content will no longer be available on Netflix. And not only will it no longer be on Netflix, but in 2019 Disney will also launch its own streaming service. Here’s why that’s so much more revealing about the streaming model as a whole: Original Content Is King For
Could Black Widow and Hulk’s teased romance be ending before it even gets started? Joss Whedon’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” set up an unexpected romantic tension between Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner and Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff that was teased but could not be fulfilled with Hulk vanishing at the end of the film. But, fans could still
Edward Jones‘ financial advisers tend to land on top when it comes to Internet searches. The firm, which has 15,000 advisers, is the wealth management industry’s leader in attracting online traffic to their websites from those who search for financial advice and services, according to a new report. The St. Louis, Mo.-based brokerage firm
Articles published with Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) load four times faster than standard mobile pages with a 35% improvement in engagement time, according to new research from Chartbeat. Facebook Instant Articles (FIA), a key competitor to Google’s AMP product, load faster than AMP. But publishers see three times as many AMP articles viewed per day than
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