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PR Insight: Time To Get Your Social On

William Mills

Yes, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snap Chat, Instagram and many others are giving credit unions another avenue to use for branding. The social media space is very real and takes its marketing very seriously. This rotation will show ongoing activity without taxing one person or group.

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Guest Post: 2012 Economic Year in Review by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

more “promises,” and a constant flow of new money into the markets. The biggest beneficiary of all this Fed activity has been the stock market—which ended the year at some pretty good “handles,” with the Dow above 13,000, S&P 500 above 1,400, and the Nasdaq above 3,000. per gallon price level rather than the $4.00

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

In a deal that aimed to open the Chinese coal markets, US heavy-equipment behemoth Caterpillar paid $677M in 2012 to acquire ERA Mining Machinery Ltd. The Chinese coal market is one of the biggest in the world and this deal looked like easy money. Date: November 30, 2006. Date: February 6, 2006. Google and Motorola.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. Investors have remained skeptical that the marketplace business model touted in 2006 is sustainable. Many of Franklin’s published aphorisms have survived the test of time and remain quite familiar. A penny saved is a penny earned. Honesty is the best policy. Benjamin Franklin.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

In 2006, investment banks were at the top of the finance world. And before the dot com crash, Goldman Sachs’ IPOs did tend to jump an average of 293% from their starting price through their first Friday on the market — compared to 26% for the bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and 78% for Merrill Lynch. Source: Getty.

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How The Rise Of Private Labels Is Transforming The CPG Industry

CB Insights

Around the middle of the twentieth century, there was what The Atlantic called a “Cambrian explosion” of brands. Tide, Crest, Band-Aid, Lipton, and other branded packaged goods — and the conglomerates that manufactured them — reigned. Store brands from retailers were seen as down-budget choices. Table of Contents.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

CB Insights

Coda Automotive was an early player in the electric vehicle market, an early failure, and a great example of why being early is not always an advantage — even if the future your company envisions is probably the right one. Another, larger problem was that the market for electric cars did not take off the way that Coda expected.

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