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Starbucks Korea got hit with a huge backlash after launching a “Tank Day” promotion on May 18, the anniversary of the 1980 Gwangju Democratization Movement. A lot of Koreans thought the campaign slogan and branding referenced the 1987 torture death cover up involving student activist Park Jong-cheol. Protests broke out almost immediately, activists smashed Starbucks …
Tylenol’s current and former manufacturer intentionally withheld evidence of a link between the drug and autism, a new lawsuit alleges. Defendants had the authority and the duty to change the warning labels of Tylenol products based on the significant scientific evidence, but chose not to,” stated the suit, filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton …
Key details from this reporting: Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai stood smiling in a leafy-green California garden in September 2020 and declared that the IT behemoth was entering the “most ambitious decade yet” in its climate action. “Today, I’m proud to announce that we intend to be the first major company to operate carbon free — …
RFK is banning big pharma from television advertising. We are only one of two countries that allow this nonsense. We should have done this before Americans were hooked on pharmaceuticals. Is it too late? #BigPharma #RFK #television pic.twitter.com/h1JY0OOlU9 — TheDaddyTwins (@TheDaddyTwins) March 24, 2025 There goes 75% of their revenue. *Pharmaceutical companies have consistently been …
There will only be 21 million bitcoins to ever exist. 19.8 million bitcoins have been mined. Controlled by math. — CZ 🔶 BNB (@cz_binance) December 10, 2024 You think this chart is bad? That 1% own 27% of all the assets. If this chart were BTC, 2% would own 92% of all the BTC. "money …
Your long-held suspicions are confirmed, according to a report: Your phone really is listening to you. A marketing firm whose clients include Facebook and Google has privately admitted that it listens to users’ smartphone microphones and then places ads based on the information that is picked up, according to 404 Media. Cox Media Group, the …
Because a marketing degree doesn’t actually teach people how to market. Being in the trenches does. Companies hire based on skills, not fancy papers you hang on a wall. — Travis Jamison (@Travis_Jamison) March 19, 2024 In many areas, they got scammed. Many jobs were standardized and supported with step-by-steo procedures, where they look for …
This is from my heating engineer.This is how stupid and greedy our government are.The opposition don't challenge this pic.twitter.com/rHsEecUsNv — June Slater (@juneslater17) December 11, 2023 View post on imgur.com View post on imgur.com h/t Little Lost
by Chris Black You create 10,000 widgets of no real value, that cost you $.50 each. You get ten friends to buy the widgets for $1 each, doubling your money. You say to get ten friends to buy the widgets from each of them for $2. They instantly double their money. All of a sudden …
Anheuser-Busch’s marketing chief to finally exit after Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney fiasco Anheuser-Busch’s US marketing chief plans to resign as the brewer continues to grapple with sharp sales drops following its disastrous Bud Light campaign with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Benoit Garbe, chief marketing officer for the embattled company’s US portfolio of beers, canned cocktails …
by Dismal-Jellyfish Source:Â https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23071.html Today, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced the start of a marketing process for the approximately $33 billion Commercial Real Estate (CRE) loan portfolio retained in receivership following the failure of Signature Bank, New York, New York. The majority of the CRE loan portfolio being marketed is comprised of multifamily properties, …
Bud Light is no longer ranked amongst the top 10 in the US after the Dylan Mulvaney marketing disaster, a survey has found. In a new YouGov poll, which asked 1,468 people, the public approval of the beer slumped so much it fell out of the top ten. While the proportion of Americans who ‘liked’ …
pic.twitter.com/ANxhg37oRo — Scott (@Beefareeno) July 3, 2023 Titan submersible roadside sign at US Subway branch condemned as ‘distasteful’ Critics said the roadside sign, outside a branch of the sandwich chain in the state of Georgia, was in bad taste following the deaths of five men in the deep sea submersible last month. https://news.sky.com/story/titan-submersible-roadside-sign-at-us-subway-branch-condemned-as-distasteful-12914515