Social and digital media has grown exponentially in the last decade, with enterprising companies creating uncontested market space in the online and digital industries. Whether your company is engaged in a new search engine, an analytics platform, or ecommerce; social media as a tool has become a necessary component of both the customer acquisition process and marketing
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Pre-IPO or Bust: Balancing the Growing Private Shares Market with Investor Protection
A growing secondary market for shares trading has accelerated in the past year, with online private shares exchanges such as SharesPost Inc., SecondMarket Inc., and Xpert Financial Inc. emerging from the tumultuous wake of the financial crisis. While the advent of private trading has enabled companies, mainly in the technology industry, to raise funds without
Japan’s Crisis and the Market: Ripple Effect?
Not long after the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis in Japan, investor anxiety is reflected in the stock market. U.S. markets initially saw a sharp decline both with the SP and Dow. As Japan represents more than six percent of American imports and close to five percent of its exports the crises in Japan has
Corporate Social Media: Why Adoption Must Be a Collaborative Endeavor
Corporations tend to fragment specific tasks, and for good reason. Efficiency requires structural fragmentation, a calibrated process to move along something as complex as a large company, a living organism complete with working parts. Each department has its mandate and performs within the bounds of its directives, whether it’s marketing,compliance, communications, or accounting. But, as proven
Mergers & Acquisitions: 2011 Outlook
Hedge Fund Marketing: Roundtable on Understanding New Regulations Best Practices http://t.co/yCM24QR March 28, 2011 – NYC Getting Funded: Making Your Business Investment Ready http://t.co/BEpdy9B March 31, 2011 – NYC Article source: http://globaldealflow.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/mergers-and-acquisitions/
Protecting Your Blog From Violative Content
One of the most important statutes to consider when discussing the legal liabilities and obligations of the social networking sites is Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Section 512(c) removes liability for copyright infringement from websites that allow users to post content, as long as the site has a mechanism in place whereby the copyright owner can
Assess, Influence & Evolve: 2011
Social Media use surpassed expectations in 2010. Goldman Sachs is now pumping money into Facebook, Maryland has a law regulating social media use by political candidates, and New York courts don’t seem to attach privacy to Facebook use. With this, companies need to start taking social media risks very seriously, to follow the pace of