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...Christian Thrane, managing director of marketing at UK telecoms group EE, agrees that “cutting through the noise” requires the skills that creatives provide....
...“It’s on the operating table and the heart isn’t beating but the doctor hasn’t called time of death,” one lender said....
...“They don’t have cash on hand and cash in the business to pay for severance and other wind-down cash expenses,” said one investor on the call. “It was lousy.”...
...He added that its slower pace also appears to reflect the background of the company’s leadership in the traditional aerospace industry, in contrast to the more eclectic group assembled at SpaceX by the famously...
...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...She joins from a UK-listed asset manager where she worked as global head of communications and marketing. DC Advisory hired Tom Krasnewich as a managing director in its industrial group....
...Facebook tightens up on political advertisingDisinformation campaigns don’t all come from foreign powers....
...At Friday’s close, ADT’s market capitalisation stood at about $6.5bn....
...After the quarter’s end, early April brought stability in online ad spending, rather than continued declines, according to Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief executive at Socialbakers, a social media marketing firm...
...But, so far at least, the system is operating as it should. “It’s pretty extraordinary that with this amount of distress you haven’t seen more failures in asset management companies.”...
...Here, compilers at index groups such as MSCI make bigger subjective calls on inclusion than they would for purely capitalisation-weighted benchmarks. Even these old warhorses cause distortions....
...The statement mentions investment in sales, marketing and integrated technology solutions....
...Barclays has hired Daniel Zimbaldi as a managing director in the financial institutions group M&A. Zimbaldi, who will be based in New York, was previously a managing director at Evercore....
...(Businessweek) Proto big data Lester Wunderman, who has past away at 98, was a pioneer in early direct marketing, the sales technique that used ZIP codes and research databases to identify potential customers...
...Smart beta, as a marketing concept, has taken the investing world by storm....
...“There’s more info online for people to be able to judge: is this just marketing? Should I pay more for it?” says Kathy Gersch, vice-president at Kotter, a consultancy....
...“They are buying a future for Pixel, if you assume HTC wouldn’t go on much longer on its own,” said Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Creative Strategies....
...“The real concern for most companies contemplating an IPO isn’t the challenge of going public, it is the obligations and opportunities that come with being public,” said Lise Buyer, a partner at Class V...
...Media sector consolidation was a factor in the timing shift, with the acquisition by Charter Communications of Time Warner Cable and the purchase of DirecTV, the satellite group, by AT&T bringing forward...
...In other words, it’s marketing gold....
...Mr Eamey joins from Tigern Advisory, a third-party marketing business that he founded and ran for seven years....
...They were used in the 1990s by AT&T and Sprint to try to attract a higher valuation for their fast-growing mobile businesses, and by companies including Walt Disney to tap into the dotcom bubble for their...
...The particular skill of Gotham City Research, an investment fund cum research group, is finding shares that are about to go down. In 2014 it made two big calls....
...In 2013, it drew interest from bidders including AT&T and the Chernin Group, whose chairman, Peter Chernin, was involved in Hulu’s early development when he was News Corp’s chief operating officer....
...“What happens at a lot of events is that the access is controlled and there are only a certain number of spots on the red carpet and at the event itself....
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