Month: February 2019

The 3 million or so travelers from China who visit the U.S. each year will be able to use mobile payment app Alipay at 3,000 Walgreens in cities like New York, San Francisco and Las Vegas–with 4,000 additional U.S. locations expected to be added by April. Walgreens joins Guess stores and the shops at San…

Maria Menounos is a host, an author, a podcaster and even a wrestler, but she is also the CEO and co-founder of a new type of network, AfterBuzz TV, which produces more than 150 hours of programming each week and helps develop the careers of hundreds of new hosts each year. Maria Menounos (l.) with…

Little about The Wonderful Company’s new wine brand is practical. Brought from conception to market in less than a year, the JNSQ brand recently came on the market with a line of ros? and sauvignon blanc–in the middle of winter. The ornate packaging was inspired by vintage luxury perfume bottles, created by a French glass…

Parliamentary elections will be held in Moldova Feb. 24, and Facebook took steps to safeguard the vote in that country from manipulation via its platform. Facebook head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher said in a Newsroom post that 168 Facebook accounts, 28 Facebook pages and eight Instagram accounts were removed for engaging in coordinated inauthentic…

Digital marketers are always on the lookout for technology that can deliver the right message to the right person on the right device at the right time. Over the years, there have been many who have claimed they can do it. Today, another company enters the fray: Amazon. With its new rewards service–called Moments–Amazon said…

Earlier this month, ecommerce giant Amazon appointed its first African-American female board member since 2009, tapping Starbucks chief operating officer Rosalind Brewer. However, expectations of a surge of similar moves in Silicon Valley should be tempered by this fact: Last January, Facebook appointed its first-ever African-American board member, former American Express chairman and CEO Kenneth…

The company says it will no longer build its highly anticipated office in Queens after the deal faced backlash from politicians, taxpayers, and activists.

Scott Hagedorn, founder and CEO of the Hearts & Science team that made headlines by scooping up AT&T and Procter & Gamble’s media accounts in 2015 and 2016, has been promoted to chief executive officer of Omnicom Media Group in North America, effective immediately. Hagedorn succeeds Page Thompson, who will retire after four decades with…

For the past few years, the Canadian Down Syndrome Society, along with their agency FCB, has been aggressive in fostering a sense of empathy and understanding about the condition. Some of the award-winning work from Canada has opened eyes and courted some controversy yet, more importantly, dispelled the myths surrounding people with Down syndrome. This…

Following China’s lead, India is restricting some sales by global ecommerce companies, and weakening protections around online free speech.