LinkedIn appears to be testing a temporary status feature for its profiles. Developer and blogger Jane Manchun Wong shared a screenshot via tweet that depicts an “add status” option on her profile on the professional network, and she said the status looks to be temporary. LinkedIn is working on “Status” it’s similar to headline but…
Facebook News Is Now Available Throughout the US
Facebook News, which the social network began testing in the U.S. last October as a standalone tab on its flagship mobile applications, is now available to all U.S. users as a bookmark in the apps. The social network said Facebook News will appear as a tab for people who frequently visit it via the bookmark….
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Las Vegas Turns the Lights Back On to Tell Travelers It’s Open for Business
The famous neon lights of The Strip are back on in Sin City in the latest ad enticing visitors to return to Las Vegas. In the spot, a tuxedo-clad man flips a master switch that is (magically) connected to every major casino on The Strip, which come to life one after the other, including the…
Mary Wells Lawrence Will Be the First Woman to Win Cannes Lions’ Lifetime Achievement Award
After a legendary advertising career full of firsts, Mary Wells Lawrence will be the first woman to be honored with the Lion of St. Mark–the Cannes Lions’ prestigious lifetime achievement award–since it was instituted in 2011. When she founded New York agency Wells Rich Greene in 1966, Wells Lawrence became the first woman to found,…
PGA Tour Marks Its Return to Play With Live Content Execution Twitter Multicast
The PGA Tour will resume play with the Charles Schwab Challenge from Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, June 11 through 14, and the organization teamed up with Twitter on a global live content execution. Twitter Multicast will start up Thursday, June 11, running from approximately 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. ET, and it…
Memos for Biden and Trump on Race and Policing
Black Investors Call On VCs to Fix Hiring and Funding
Mentoring and networking advice aren’t enough to solve the industry’s dismal diversity numbers, say business leaders: Firms need to “Make the hire. Send the wire.”
To Show Fukushima Crops are Safe, an Agency Made a Book Out of Rice Paper Grown There
In 2011, Japan was rocked by a nuclear disaster as its Fukushima Daiichi plant. The country was hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami, which caused a dangerous radiation leak at the nuclear plant and contaminated about 100 square miles of farmland in one of Japan’s most important agricultural regions. Nine years later, scientists in…
After a Year Without a Global CMO, McDonald’s Names Alistair Macrow to the Job
Burger giant McDonald’s has promoted Alistair Macrow to global CMO, according to an announcement from the company today. Macrow fills a role that has been empty for nearly a year after the departure of Silvia Lagnado last July. Since then, Colin Mitchell, svp of global marketing, has led the marketing team at McDonald’s. Mitchell is…