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Marketing Daily: Lucid Top Marketer Reveals Agency Search
Lucid Motors is searching for an agency for a global campaign for its new Gravity SUV. Lucid Vice President of Marketing Andrea Soriani revealed the RFP during an onstage interview at MediaPost’s Marketing: Automotive conference at the Los Angeles Auto Show. He declined to say how far along he is …
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Nearly 500 OpenAI Employees Threaten To Quit Unless Board Resigns
OpenAI was in open revolt on Monday with 490 employees threatening to leave unless the board resigns and reinstates Sam Altman as CEO, along with cofounder and former president Greg Brockman. Altman was controversially fired by the board on Friday. From a report: “The process through which you terminated Sam Altman and removed Greg Brockman…
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Marketing Daily: Three-Quarters Of America Likely To Shop Thanksgiving Weekend
Walmart toy shopper The National Retail Federation predicts 74% of holiday shoppers plan to spring into action next weekend, the highest estimate since NRF began tracking this data in 2017. In the 2019 survey, 69% said they intended to shop the Big Weekend. Roughly 16 million more people will be …
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Reporter’s Notebook: A Super Bowl in South Parkersburg?
<!– SHOW ARTICLE –> Sports venues were once aplenty in south Parkersburg. Even though in the 1940s, what is now south Parkersburg had not as yet been annexed into Parkersburg, the area south of the Little Kanawha was the scene for many sporting events. The area known as Shattuck Park, with its huge race track…
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Germany still plans to buy local unit of TenneT -econ ministry
Companies TenneT Holding BV Follow BERLIN, Nov 19 (Reuters) – The German government is still planning to buy the local division of Dutch grid operator TenneT, an economy ministry spokesperson told Reuters on Sunday. The government’s plan hit a hurdle after a ruling by the country’s constitutional court on Wednesday that 60 billion euros ($65…
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In World’s Largest Disinformation Campaign Online, China Is Harassing Americans
“The Chinese government has built up the world’s largest known online disinformation operation,” reports CNN, “and is using it to harass US residents, politicians, and businesses.” CNN reports that disinformation operation is even “at times threatening its targets with violence, a CNN review of court documents and public disclosures by social media companies has found.”…
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Police assist traffic at DTLA events while fire-damaged 10 Freeway is repaired
Additional traffic officers are in place this weekend to help motorists navigate high-profile events in the downtown area while restoration work continues on the fire-damaged portion of the 10 Freeway, which is expected to reopen by Tuesday, officials said. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) issued an update on Saturday stating that the repairs are…
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Why US Women Now Live Almost 6 Years Longer Than Men
According to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, women in the U.S. are now projected to live about six years longer than U.S. men. TIME reports: [T]he 2021 data represent the largest gender-based life expectancy gap in the U.S. since 1996. The gulf began to widen before the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors note,…
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Lionsgate suspends advertising on X
Nov 17 (Reuters) – Lions Gate Entertainment (LGFa.N) has suspended advertising on Elon Musk-owned X, a spokesperson for the company said on Friday. Apple (AAPL.O) is also pausing all advertising on X, Axios reported, after Musk backed an antisemitic post on the social media platform earlier this week. Reporting by Samrhitha Arunasalam in Bengaluru; Editing…
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Thankful for Great Events this Week – November 18-24, 2023 – Larchmont Buzz
The Broad will be celebrating the opening of its latest exhibit with a FREE day full of art, music, and food on Sat, Nov 18. I’m gonna keep things simple this week – What are you grateful for? Hopefully, at least one thing and at least a few of these fabulous events I’ve lined up…