Follow the Tweets: Businesses Can Use Twitter to Predict Sales – WSJ
By Huaxia Rui, Andrew Whinston and Elizabeth Winkler Wall Street Journal There’s a new tool that can help companies predict sales for the coming weeks, or decide whether to increase inventories or put items on sale in certain stores. It’s Twitter. Social-media sites such as Twitter have made it increasingly easy to find out what [...]
OWC in the Los Angeles Business Journal
Olmstead Williams Communications was featured in last week’s L.A. Biz Seen for its one-year anniversary party. The champagne and chocolate affair was held at the Napa Valley Grille in Westwood in late October. The L.A. Biz Seen is a section that publishes photographs of business-related events in Los Angeles. It includes parties, awards dinners, benefits and [...]
eDiscovery Moving In House To Support Rise in Requests
By Marisa Peacock CMS Wire The folks at Clearwell think that a storm is brewing in eDiscovery. A storm so perfect that it brings together increased data volumes, litigation, compliance standards and a growing need to cut costs, forcing companies to face their eDiscovery needs head on. Like storm chasers who investigate the forces of [...]
Can the law keep up with technology?
By Manav Tanneeru CNN In a case that would have been impossible even five years ago, bad-girl rocker Courtney Love is being sued for libel by a fashion designer for allegedly slamming the woman on Twitter. The suit claims that after a disagreement over what Love should pay Dawn Simorangkir for the clothes she designed, [...]
When English Becomes a Barrier to Care
By Kristen Gerencher MarketWatch Health care makes up about a third of the business at Language Line Services, which provides telephone-based interpreting services for $1.50 a minute on average. Its president, Louis Provenzano, said the company serves more than 170 languages by staffing interpreters in 18 time zones who are available to customers by phone [...]
Olmstead Williams Communications celebrates first anniversary
Clients, reporters, friends and employees gathered at the Napa Valley Grille in Westwood last Wednesday to celebrate the first year of Olmstead Williams Communications, a business-to-business public relations firm born this past September. The champagne and artisan chocolate affair was a great success, topped off with a book signing by Susie Norris who just released [...]
