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I use “worth” in quotes because this is the valuation many analysts are giving Snapchat in June 2015. The valuation is warranted based on the $200 million laid down by Alibaba and the investment from 23 funds that equated to a valuation of around $10 billion in 2014. Why are these investments being made? Does Snapchat have […]
Snapchat has hired Sean Mills as the Head of Original content, he will be located in the company’s New York City office. Before joining Snapchat he was president of video startup NowThis. Mills was responsible for increasing the companies views from 150,000 to 60 million per month. He was also the CEO of Nerve.com. Previous to […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook is concerned that Google, Facebook, and other big Silicon Valley tech companies are abusing the personal information of customers. According to The Verge, in a speech delivered remotely to a dinner in Washington, DC hosted by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, where he was being deemed the “champion of freedom,” Cook said: “Our […]
Facebook currently service’s 1.39 billion users with a mobile base of more than 1.19 billion subscribers. The social network has shown no real signs of slowing on a global level, and with that growth advertisers have hurried to discover all of the companies stats and trends. According to the team at Invesp, businesses and organizations need […]
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It’s that time of year again. To celebrate the feedfest–and unofficial holiday season kickoff–that is Thanksgiving, we’ve compiled a list of 25 Thanksgiving quotes. Take them to the table with you this year: 1. “Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I’d like to express my thanks.” –Irving Berlin 2. “There is no sincerer love […]
It’s true, not all of the older business executives understand the value of using Twitter. The micro-blogging tool is placing a human face on corporations that otherwise wouldn’t be able to directly communicate with their stakeholders. The Fortune 50 is an exclusive club of the top companies in the United States with a minimum entry […]
Image: Screaming Monkey/Flickr Networking is a skill. It’s not just about elevator pitches and icebreakers, however. Place matters. How else are you going to meet the right person at the right time? The best places to network let you meet people under positive auspices. You share a common cause. You’re there because you want to […]
Travel through 26 states. 15,089 Twitter followers. 9,726 Facebook fans. Dozens of major business goals knocked off. That’s what the 10 finalists in the Fairfield Small Business Road to Success Challenge accomplished during the three months of the contest. But only one small business could take the $20,000 cake, and that was ecycler, the recycling […]
Want to win on Facebook? Command your niche, hire interns to put in some serious social media hours, and give away something you normally charge for. That was Tim Ericson’s strategy. And Tim, the CEO of CityRyde, has nearly 4,300 fans* and a Fairfield Small Business Challenge Facebook contest win–he gained the most followers in […]
Do you tweet? Odds are, your answer to this question is yes. The real question is “do you tweet well“? Do you engage your followers, find new leads and clients using Twitter, and have a solid reputation on the medium? That second question is harder to say yes to. But Brian Searl, who won the […]
Kenneth Cole just made it into the PR hall of shame with this tweet: @KennethCole: Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at http://www.bit.ly/KCairo -KC Econsultancy has more on Cole’s “hastag hijack”: If you cast your mind back you may remember that Habitat pulled […]
For being at the top of the food chain, humans aren’t terribly evolved. Give us a complex situation like, say, a credit meltdown with a zero accountability, and we drape a TARP and hope it will just go away. Individual humans just aren’t good at making hard decisions in complicated situations. That said, a smart, […]
