Category: Business

  • Famous last words

    It’s probably no surprise to anyone that Oswald Gruebel, the CEO of Swiss bank UBS, quit his job on Saturday in the wake of the rogue trading scandal at the bank’s London office. That alleged crookery looks like will cost…

  • Rebooting Facebook

    As more than 100,000 others did, I sat at a computer last evening to watch the live video stream of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg deliver his keynote speech at the start of f8, Facebook’s annual developer conference in San Francisco.…

  • When a UBS headline doesn’t tell you a story

    I’ve been following developments today in the UBS $2 billion rogue trades scandal – and the latest news re an arrest of the alleged rogue trader in London today – which could lead the Swiss bank group to report a…

  • Get your ticket now and be part of the Dell B2B Social Media Huddle in November

    Kerry Bridge and I discussed the forthcoming Dell B2B Social Media Huddle today as we continued our planning for the fourth in this series of one-day business briefings that have proven to be popular during the past few years. The…

  • Being inclusive about PR ethics

    One of the great things about the Ethics Awareness Month initiative from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) is that it helps focus clear attention on a core issue in the profession that, in many people’s minds, needs that…