Tradeshows During a Recession

By, Janet Park, Senior Account Executive, Fusion PR One of my clients is attending Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in a couple of weeks and I’ve been noticing some trends which are obviously a direct reflection upon today’s economic situation. Many of the U.S.-based publications are either not attending the show or are only sending […]

Entrepreneurial Music Pirate to Nuanced Web 2.0 Social-Gamer

By: Justin Finnegan, AE, and Ben Baruch, SAE – Fusion PR Scanning the Web earlier, we came across a very familiar name, a name from the past — Shawn Fanning. Though he might not be a household name, it was his site, Napster, which was the buzz word of 1998. Napster, a file-sharing site, completely […]

Performance Enhanced Valuations?

By: Ben Baruch, SAE, Fusion PR 1 Billion-Dollars… Yes, 1 billion-dollars is the valuation given to the business/professional social-networking Web site LinkedIn, according to a posting by Caroline McCarthy of The Social Blog at CNET and a story on TechCrunch by Michael Arrington. Arrington wrote, ‘Allen & Co… is out pitching a LinkedIn venture capital […]