Microsoft’s top executives were “embarrassed and appalled” upon seeing photos of female dancers in schoolgirl outfits at a Microsoft Xbox-sponsored event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, the company’s executive vice president of human...
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Internal emails: How a Seattle startup’s ‘drama’ became a Kentucky university’s problem
“It all sounds a little strange to me!” That was a member of the University of Kentucky’s public relations and marketing staff, in a Dec. 2 email message to her colleagues...
US Attorneys General say Volkswagen has refused to turn over internal documents
According to reports from the New York Times and Reuters, the Volkswagen Group is refusing to turn over e-mails and correspondence from its top executives to US Attorneys General (AG), citing German privacy laws.
AGs from Connecticut and New York told the two news outlets that they were outraged with Volkswagen’s reluctance to comply fully with their investigations. The two AGs are part of a...
Analytics startup MetricStory raises $1.4M to help marketers make sense of internal data
Marketers can access more internal data than ever before thanks to high-powered software like Google Analytics. But having that information at your fingertips serves a limited purpose — getting actionable insights from data is what can really help companies make better business decisions. MetricStory wants to make that process more efficient with machine learning and algorithms. The Seattle-based startup today raised a $ ...