The BBC's Michael Buerk carried on where he left off last year as chairman of the IGD annual conference with a series of barbed comments about the industry's "bigwigs". Introducing City analysts David McCarthy and Andy Smith, he asked whether an analyst wasn't "a guy who knows 129 ways...
With this year's World Economic Forum being held in the media capital of the world, New York City, protests at the four-- day conference of world leaders and corporate bigwigs were sure to attract plenty of attention. Some of that attention came from the right-wing press, gathering fodder for its...
International Network Services, a Sunnyvale, Calif., provider of network consulting and software solutions, has been named the top consulting company in the high technology industry by market research firm Yankee Group and Upside Magazine. The ranking was based on five specific criteria: market share leadership, innovation, overseas strength,...
How to Reach Unreachable CEOs, Execs and Other BigwigsRE: How to Reach Unreachable CEOs, Execs and Other BigwigsOkay, the strategy may work but will depend on the bigwigs one is trying to reach. Take former President Clinton, he doesn't use even e-mail. This extends also to rust belt CEO's e.g....
The Find: One marketing pro claims to have found a way to "virtually guarantee" a message reaching its target, no matter how flooded their inbox, by taking advantage of our inflated egos. The Source: The Influencial Marketing blog of Rohit Bhargava, Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy...
I ENJOYED seeing Dani Behr back on TV in I'm A Celebrity - and now I'm happy to say we'll hear a lot more from the cool host of cult TV show The Word in 2009. Publishing industry bigwigs say there is a bidding war over...
TIME travel telly classic Doctor Who was first due to be written by Ulster's legendary Narnia author CS Lewis - until BBC bigwigs decided he was too "boring"... The Beeb also produced guidelines for the show's writers, stating: "No bugeyed monsters, no tin robots and no...
Fresh from bailing out the banks, Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson and Alistair Darling are fast becoming addicts to the opiate of intervention. Every other day, it seems, the banking bigwigs are being told what the Government wants them to do next. They should probably apply for a Whitehall parking pass...
The Mountain West Conference is riding as high as it ever has in the college football world right now. With three teams ranked in the top 15 in the latest BCS standings, the league is tied for second with the SEC for most teams in the BCS...
GENEVA AFP — Europe's leading physicists swapped their lab coats for their best suits Tuesday for the official inauguration of a multi-billion dollar machine designed to shed light on the "Big Bang." There was just one problem -- the experiment itself is out of action for several months,...
In the early 1980s, Portland general contractor Tom Nesbit was looking to break into the restaurant construction business. But even though he'd been working as a contractor since graduating from high school, he found that getting his foot in the door was more difficult than he expected. ...
International bigwigs arrive in New York this week for the U.N. General Assembly. CW asks: How have leaders fared since last year? George W. Bush DOWN: Outgoing U.S. president has no power at home, no clout abroad and no time left. Sarah Palin SIDE: Small-town gal comes...
The stars of the small screen had bighearts tonight as hundreds of television's hottest celebrities joined withother industry bigwigs for the annual "Evening Before" pre-Emmy party thatraised nearly $1.5 million for the non-profit Motion Picture & TelevisionFund. Among the celebrities who attended were Christina Applegate, AmericaFerrera, Tina Fey, Sally Field,...
DON'T MISS: The 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards -- The new fall TV season kicks off in earnest this week, but not before industry bigwigs gather to shower some love on the best and brightest of last season. And now Emmy gets real as reality-show hosts Tom Bergeron, Heidi Klum,...
TORONTO -- For someone constantly scrutinized for her slender frame, Keira Knightley knows how to stuff her face. "I have food! That's so good!" crows Knightley, surveying the spread before her. She jams chunks of a banana into her mouth and cheerfully recounts an earlier mishap with an...
TOKYO, Sept. 10 Kyodo (EDS: ASO'S BIRTHDAY IS SEPT. 20, 1940) Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Taro Aso is an outspoken veteran politician prone making gaffes that have sparked controversy both at home and abroad, while also being known in Japan as an...
It's official: September is a good month to announce you're leaving the Treasury ANOTHER NAIL IN THE COFFIN of the beleaguered government of Gordon Brown was announced last week. Sir James Sassoon, right, the man charged by the hapless Alistair Darling to do the Treasury's bidding in...
This academic year is going to be busy, with the largest number of schools opening for three decades. "Record" openings, chirps a press release from the department for curtains and soft furnishings DCSF. Opponents of academies look away now: 51 of the blighters will open this year. Ditto 24 schools...
A two-year-old letter by Vice President Dick Cheney that pushed a controversial Alaska natural-gas pipeline bill is getting renewed scrutiny because of recently disclosed evidence in the Justice Department's corruption case against Sen. Ted Stevens. In a conversation secretly tape-recorded by the FBI on June 25, 2006, Stevens discussed ways...
Crow's Nest Yachts Sells $10.7M Yacht; Auto Dealers Hold Charity Event for CHOC Oct. 1 MARKETPLACE Developer Mike Harrah's Batmobile is just one of the collectable cars to be shown at the Corona del Mar Chamber of Commerce's annual Coastline Car Classic this Sunday. The...
