SINGAPORE — It looks like DBS’ marketing budget is bigger than you thought. The Singaporean multinational bank just put out a mini drama series on its website called “Sparks.” It portrays the lives of fictional bank employees who (naturally) work … Read More
Nearly half of Twitter’s top executives are on their way out the door — some heading to direct competitors like Instagram. The stock is in free fall with one analyst calling it “total junk.” And industry watchers are wondering when … Read More
TOKYO — Sony Corp. reported a 33.5% jump in quarterly profit as sales improved in its PlayStation 4 video game business. Tokyo-based Sony kept its full-year profit projection unchanged Friday at 140 billion yen ($1.2 billion), which would be a … Read More
One small Los Angeles retailer has been “paralyzed” by extreme demand after images of drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman wearing two of their colorful shirts were featured in a controversial Rolling Stone article about the prison escapee earlier this … Read More
The next Don Draper could be on your couch. Or the next Peggy Olson could be you Doritos is once again giving power to the people with its “Crash the Super Bowl” campaign, which lets fan submit their own home-made … Read More
A little friendly Twitter marketing got real when Wendy’s decided to take a medium-rare beef with Burger King make it well done It started innocently enough with Wendy’s promoting its “4 for $4” meal See also: The top 8 fast … Read More
The New England Patriots reportedly suffered problems with the Microsoft Surface tablets that are used on sidelines for planning purposes. The report came from a CBS sideline reporter, who did not detail the problem but did say that a representative … Read More
Vikram Ravinder was a little nervous as he faced the board members of Chicago nonprofit Bunker Labs in a conference room in early December. The 29-year-old Deloitte senior consultant for strategy and operations was pitching a plan that might help … Read More
Marisa Boyette, 21, an economics and accounting major at Georgia College, is familiar with the laws of supply and demand. She’s well aware that the two tickets she holds for Adele’s concert in Atlanta could fetch much more than the … Read More
It is axiomatic that progress often means trouble. Virtually every industrial revolution has brought about greater productivity and resulted, in the short term, in fewer jobs The Fourth Industrial Revolution — that’s the coming one, if you haven’t kept track … Read More