The first annual Advertising Week starts off today with 4 days of events over 6 cities across North America. We’ll be on hand each day to cover the events and bring you some great interviews with the speakers and attendees. The early bird registration was also turned on for our upcoming The Bold and The Blogging event and Shop Online ‘09 which takes place on April 21.
Microsoft – Has received lots of love lately for the beta of Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 but love just doesn’t pay the bills and the company has announced they will layoff 5,000 in research and development, marketing, sales, finance, and other departments over the next 2 years
Apple – Being on my 3rd replacement MacBook Pro Apple is a torn in my side, but someone is still buying from them as they report $1.61 Billion profit for Q1 2009, oh and it looks like even Apple’s OS is susceptible to trojan worms
Twitter – They did it, micro-blogging service Twitter has surpassed traffic on Digg.com
eBay – Reported $2.04 Billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2008 and $8.54 Billion in revenue for entire year of 2008
Google – Although there some doubts leading up to it, Google still pulled again for last quarter of 2008 reporting of $5.70 Billion for the quarter ended (an increase of 18% compared to the fourth quarter of 2007)
Here are some of the other industry stories and news that we talked about in this edition of The Week That Was.
Headlines:
Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association Cleans Up With “Recycle My Cell”
Grey Canada Takes Off With Greater Toronto Airports Authority
Deloitte TMT Predictions 2009 – Green Is Good, Mobile Is Moving, Blue Skies In The Cloud
Metronews.ca Rebrands, Rebuilds and Relaunches, Is It Enough?
Certicom To Rim, “No So Fast, Stop The Wedding
Managing the Gray Lines of Reputation
Re-Inventing Yourself In A Downward Economy – PR In Canada
Employee Research – Gauging the Internal Audience - PR In Canada
Account Wins
TAXI 2 Wins A Whopper Of An Account
On The Move
Dominique Jodoin Tapped As New CEO Of Bluestreak Technology
Extreme Group Starts Off 2009 With Big Additions - PR In Canada
Job Posting
Interactive Marketing Manager (contract) – Toronto
Sympatico/MSN – Associate Director – Media Account Management – Toronto
Sympatico/MSN – Production Manager, Sympatico/MSN Portal Operations – Toronto
Event Calender:
Inaugural Canadian Advertising Week To Be Held January 26 to 30, 2009
The Bold & The Blogging – March 24, 2009 – Early Bird Registration Now Open
Shop Online ‘09 – April 21, 2009 – Early Bird Registration Now Open
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