Category: Business

  • Courageous decisions helped regain brand trust

    I watched a fascinating documentary on the Virgin1 TV channel last night – the story of the Tylenol poisoning crisis in 1982. Seven people died in the Chicago area after ingesting Tylenol Extra Strength capsules that had been deliberately laced…

  • Still a journey for social media

    The results of a survey in the UK published last week concludes that UK businesses are slow to take up social media. According to a report in Marketing Week, the survey results show that only 18% of executives from participating…

  • Buzz on the go

    A couple of weeks ago, I met Luke Razzell at the social media cafe in London. Luke is CEO of i-together, the UK company behind Blog Friends, one of the more useful applications for Facebook. What Luke introduced me to,…

  • Social networks from the Financial Times

    BrandRepublic reports that the Financial Times’ conferences arm has launched a pay-to-join membership forum so that media and technology executives working in the digital, new media, mobile and telecoms sectors can network. Not only a forum for people in this…

  • The key for Microsoft and Yahoo

    It’s anyone’s guess at the moment whether Microsoft will succeed in its bid to acquire Yahoo. Following Yahoo’s rejection of the unsolicited bid, subsequent speculation on who else might emerge as a white knight, or even whether Yahoo and Google…