Month: October 2018

Elon Musk is already generating controversy on Twitter two days after settling a fraud case by securities regulators who are requiring Tesla to put in place a system to monitor his public communication.

Ryan Joe contributed One of Google’s key ad executives is riding off into the VC sunset. Sridhar Ramaswamy, SVP for ads and commerce,  will depart the Googleplex for a role with Greylock Ventures, Forbes reports. Prabhakar Raghavan, VP of Google cloud apps, will become the new ads honcho. “I’ve long admired how Sridhar and his team have… Continue reading »

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Michimasa Fujino always knew he wanted to be an engineer. “I wanted to build and design things,” he said. “When my parents were starting to build their house, I participated in the design and building of the model of the house.” He was 11. After graduating with a doctorate in aeronautical engineering from the University…

TV’s nostalgia craze is now extending beyond reboots and revivals like Magnum P.I. and Will & Grace. This Friday, one of television’s most famous programming blocks returns: ABC’s TGIF, which initially stood for Thank Goodness It’s Funny. From 1989-2000, the ABC brand entertained kids and their families on Friday nights with hit sitcoms like Full…

In the world of beer advertising, emotional attachment is everything. Marketers are often trying to sell consumers feelings–game-day excitement, nightclub cachet, good times with friends–as much as they are the beverage itself. But if the two aren’t intrinsically connected, the advertiser risks producing emotional ambiguity. That was the dilemma that startup Spark Neuro’s researchers had…

Arresting imagery with a playful sensibility runs through much of the work from Design Army. The Washington, D.C., creative firm was co-founded by wife-and-husband team Pum and Jake Lefebure, who met at another agency in the ’90s and embarked on their own shop adventure eight years later. Pum Lefebure, who serves as CCO, said their…

Compare different countries’ opinions of the United States and its president since 2002.

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Donald Trump’s international image remains poor, and ratings for the U.S. have declined since his election. Yet most people around the world still want the U.S., not China, as the world’s leading power.

The post Trump’s International Ratings Remain Low, Especially Among Key Allies appeared first on Pew Research Center.

When Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger dropped the bombshell news late last week that they were leaving the company, speculation turned to Adam Mosseri, the Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network’s vice president of product, as a potential successor. Today, the speculation was confirmed. Mosseri will officially assume the role of head of Instagram,…