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Why Strategic M&A Activity Can Be A Growth Engine For Your Company

Why Strategic M&A Activity Can Be A Growth Engine For Your Company by Christie Johansen-Pinney , April 21, 2023 Corporate growth in 2023 is expected to look significantly different as 63% of organizations are preparing for mergers and acquisitions this year, per a Deloitte report –and this trend is likely to continue in the future. … Continue reading Why Strategic M&A Activity Can Be A Growth Engine For Your Company →

BuzzFeed News is closing up shop as the company nurses its bottom line, enlists ChatGPT

  By Connie Lin April 20, 2023 BuzzFeed Inc. will close down its journalism venture, BuzzFeed News, the company’s cofounder and chief executive Jonah Peretti revealed on Thursday, in yet another grim reckoning for the digital-media industry. Spun out of BuzzFeed over a decade ago, the News unit was credited with bringing prestige to the … Continue reading BuzzFeed News is closing up shop as the company nurses its bottom line, enlists ChatGPT →

Elon Musk has created his own artificial intelligence company

Elon Musk has created his own artificial intelligence company   Mariella Moon @mariella_moon Elon Musk, who’s been vocally critical about artificial intelligence lately, seems to be planning something AI related. According to The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, Musk has founded a new artificial intelligence company called X.AI Corp. Based on a state … Continue reading Elon Musk has created his own artificial intelligence company →

CPG Company Uses AI To Optimize Ad Campaigns

CPG Company Uses AI To Optimize Ad Campaigns by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, April 6, 2023 Albert.AI proved out an artificial intelligence (AI)-based social and search advertising solution aimed at improving the effectiveness of digital ad campaigns with in-house teams. The tests — carried out by an unidentified consumer packaged goods (CPG) company — helped to … Continue reading CPG Company Uses AI To Optimize Ad Campaigns →

Tesla sets new company record after delivering more than 422,000 EVs in Q1 2023

Tesla delivered over 405,000 vehicles in Q4 2022, setting a new company record   Igor Bonifacic @igorbonifacic Tesla delivered 405,278 electric vehicles over the final three months of 2022, the automaker announced on Monday. That number represents a new record for the company, but it also fell short of Wall Street estimates. As recently as … Continue reading Tesla sets new company record after delivering more than 422,000 EVs in Q1 2023 →

Acxiom CEO Develops Strategies To Protect Company IP Against ChatGPT

IPG’s Acxiom Develops Strategy To Protect IP From ChatGPT by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, March 31, 2023 Acxiom CEO Chad Engelgau, who worked at Dell for more than a decade, sees generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology as transformative for advertising. He says the underlying technology must be understood to create benefits for marketers and brands, as well … Continue reading Acxiom CEO Develops Strategies To Protect Company IP Against ChatGPT →

It’s Time That Your Company Invests In Policies That Benefit Working Parents

It’s Time That Your Company Invests In Policies That Benefit Working Parents ValueWalk / 16 Mar 2023   Corporate America is facing a growing problem. More working parents are quitting and leaving their jobs to attend to their families, and employers are perhaps the ones to blame for the lackluster support and guidance. America’s working parents … Continue reading It’s Time That Your Company Invests In Policies That Benefit Working Parents →

4-day workweeks aren’t for every company. Here’s a compromise

  By Charlie Metcalfe February 26, 2023 “In answer to the many rumors that have been going around the plants, I think I had better start out by saying—yes, we are going to reduce our work schedule,” Bill Hewlett wrote in the July 1970 edition of Watt’s Current, Hewlett Packard’s company newsletter. The IT company’s … Continue reading 4-day workweeks aren’t for every company. Here’s a compromise →

Why this canned-wine company tapped Elizabeth Banks to lead its marketing

  By KC Ifeanyi February 23, 2023   When Marian Leitner-Waldman launched her canned-wine company Archer Roose in 2014, she hit on a relatively untapped market at just the right time. Between 2014 and 2016, there was a 125% increase in canned-wine sales, driven by consumers looking for convenience (enjoying a single-serve can versus opening … Continue reading Why this canned-wine company tapped Elizabeth Banks to lead its marketing →

Stock buybacks are still all the rage, and company executives can’t stop talking about them

  By Christopher Zara February 17, 2023 Big Oil loves them. So does Meta. Even Norfolk Southern Railway is a fan. We’re talking about stock buybacks, the perennially popular practice of companies scooping up their own shares on the open market. Buyback programs can be a hit with shareholders and executives, but they’re controversial. In … Continue reading Stock buybacks are still all the rage, and company executives can’t stop talking about them →