CIA

Recent Events

News & Analysis

cia and marketing - All News and Analysis

• Visible Technologies Gets Funding To Help The CIA Monitor Social Media

  PaidContent - 2009-10-20

  As if posting a stream of status updates to hundreds of strangers on Twitter doesn’t have enough “big brother” potential ... Visible Technologies, the WPP-backed social media monitoring firm, has picked up an undisclosed amount of funding from In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment arm of the U.S. government. In-Q-Tel serves...

  Tags: CIA, Twitter Inc., Social Media, In-Q-Tel, Corporate Insurance, Software Development, Homeland Security, Business Security, Government, Branding, Biotechnology, Business Operations, Software/Web Development, Marketing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, Tameka Kee

• "Pain Is Pain": Cephalon's Marketing Comes Under DOJ Control

  BNET - 2008-09-30

  Cephalon agreed yesterday to a $444 million settlement with the Department of Justice that will control its marketing of Actiq, Provigil and Gabitril. (Scroll to the bottom of this page if you want to read the prosecutors' documents describing the scale of wrongdoing at the company.) The...

  Tags: CIA, Cephalon Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Marketing Research, Marketing, Jim Edwards

• A new collaboration between the Culinary Institute of America Consulting Services Group and The National Food Lab

  - 2008-08-01

  A new collaboration between the Culinary Institute of America CIA Consulting Services Group and The National Food Lab The NFL combines product development and commercialization strengths to create "a unique culinary-driven concept development process."

  Tags: America, CIA, Collaboration, food, Groupware, MARKETING, NFL, SOFTWARE, Strategy

• Bush orders overhaul of US intelligence

  - 2008-07-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush has given his national intelligence director greater powers to manage rival US spy agencies as part of an overhaul driven by past intelligence failures, White House documents released Thursday show. The authorities were spelled out in revised executive order 13355, which...

  Tags: agency, CIA, director, MARKETING, president

• CIA accuses Pakistan of 'backing militants'

  - 2008-07-30

  WASHINGTON AFP — A senior CIA official this month confronted Pakistani officials over ties between the country's intelligence service and militants in the tribal areas, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Citing defense and intelligence sources, the Times said that the trip by agency deputy director Stephen Kappes demonstrated...

  Tags: CIA, MARKETING, Pakistan

• I Set Up My Own 'Crisis Monitoring' Operation and Gain a Vital 'Deep Throat' Source in the Process

  - 2008-07-01

  It was spring, 1958, and I had just arrived at CIA headquarters via one of the blue, unmarked buses the intelligence agency was using to transport employees and "cleared" visitors to the 37 buildings scattered around Washington. The agency was yet to establish headquarters across the Potomac in Langley, Va....

  Tags: CIA, Government, MARKETING, monitoring, U.S., Washington

• BIGresearch Asks Americans Which Presidential Candidate They Would Recommend to a Friend

  - 2008-06-13

  For the past several months, BIGresearch ( http://www.bigresearch.com ) has asked more than 8,000 respondents in their Consumer Intentions & Actions Survey to rank the presidential candidates by using the Net Promoter® Score* NPS. In June, it's interesting to see how Clinton promoters are shifting their recommendations as she suspends...

  Tags: CIA, Democrat, MARKETING, Republican

• The underbelly of intelligence

  - 2008-05-27

  Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing By Tim Shorrock Simon & Schuster, 437 pages, $27 --- U.S. government agencies that collect "intelligence" (the word carries an ironic ring because so much...

  Tags: agency, CIA, journalist, MARKETING, Science Applications International Corp.

• BIGresearch: Consumers Rate Presidential Candidates by Likelihood to Recommend to a Friend

  - 2008-04-18

  The Net Promoter® Score* NPS has been called the "ultimate question" that can determine a company's future. So what happens when you apply the NPS to the 3 major presidential candidates? BIGresearch ( http://www.bigresearch.com ) did just that by asking more than 8,000 respondents to their April Consumer Intentions...

  Tags: CIA, Democrat, E-mail, FINANCE, MARKETING, Republican

• I Go to Work for the "Largest PR Agency" in the World, and find myself beginning a 12-year war with the CIA

  - 2008-04-01

  In August 1950, Angelina, my bride of two years, and I arrived in Washington, D.C., ready to take on the world of politics, demagoguery, primitive public relations, red-baiting politicians, sex scandals and globe-spanning news. The moment we stepped off the train that had taken us from Sioux City, Iowa, we...

  Tags: CIA, MARKETING, U.S., U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of State