Google’s market dominance means that our dependence on the company’s services to work properly and dependably represents a large systemic risk. Imagine Gmail services are unavailable or its server farms go off-line making outsourced data unavailable to your company? Will your business come to a grinding halt?
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online advertising,
out-of-print books,
risk management,
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Blogging and Tweeting means that the same power used to amplify promotions also makes any missteps very public ones. UBS AG could try using social media to better communicate how it will emerge from the wreckage that made its shares sink to junk status. Imagine that.
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why benchmark SM?
Struggling to survive in the digital world, TV Guide got sold for $1, while Business Week is embarking on various social media initiatives to harness its readership on- and off-line. We explain their lack of success.
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micro-blogging,
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TV Guide
Four lessons learned suggest that governments throwing cash after trash is a bad move. And sometimes Chapter 11 avoids exposing shareholders to future losses and cash calls of unknowable size. We provide the intelligence. You make the decision.
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RBS,
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Royal Bank of Scotland,
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Greater public ownership of the financial sector and other industries now seems unavoidable in a number of countries. While China and Russia blame the US for the global crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has proposed the creation of a UN Economic Council modelled on its Security Council.
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nationalism,
protectionism,
public finances,
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Economic turmoil, wars and poverty all feature prominently in the World Economic Forum’s Agenda 2009, but will delegates move forward on finding possible solutions to important issues? Read about the navel-gazing going on in Davos, Switzerland.
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SAS,
Schaeffler,
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Valdimir Putin,
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The current financial crisis illustrates that using social communities to improve your bottom line is a great idea. While it is too late for Waterford Wedgewood, Scotiabank’s social media efforts seem to be flaundering and need a real shake up to be rescued from the brink of disaster. In the age of distraction, the bank’s online community for small business customers fails to gain a real foothold.
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MyVault,
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Twitter effectiveness,
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