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Snowden reveals NSA email, phone call database. Twitter allows user analytics (RBDR 9/2/2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) Edward Snowden’s latest revelation about U.S. intelligence discloses the existence of an NSA ICReach data base with individual’s communication metadata. 2) Twitter opens the way for any of its English, French, Spanish and Japanese-speaking users to take advantage of its detailed analytic capabilities. 3) Arthur White, one of the founders of the research and polling firm, Yankelovich & Skelly White, died last week.

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FB, Twitter users express less offline; Skype to translate language in real time (RBDR 8/28/2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) A Pew Research Center & Rutgers University study says Facebook and Twitter users are much less willing than most people to share their opinions offline about hot-button issues. There are obvious potential research implications from this. 2) Skype Translator is coming out this year to help break language barriers in real time between Skype users in different countries. 3) Comment from Farm Credit Canada market researcher Fred Wall regarding RBDR’s suggestion about renaming research functions “Decision Insights.”

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P&G’s shift from MR dept to CMK (RBDR 8/27/14)

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Today on RBDR: 1) Does changing market research departments to Decision Insights make sense? A look back at what happened at P&G when the Market Research department became Consumer Market Knowledge 2) Millward Brown acquires InsightExpress to accelerate it cross-platform advertising effectiveness work.

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IBM Customer Experience Lab rolls out impressive tools; Nielsen: FTC negotiations and its “Topten” intro; Judy Vogel: Gannett’s new VP-MR (RBDR–9/18/13)

1) IBM’s India-based Customer Experience Lab rolls out three new capabilities that impact social, mobile, Big Data & analytics.

Here is the link to this story for further info:

http://www.dmnews.com/ibm-aims-to-make-c-suite-a-little-sweeter/article/311522/

2) Nielsen is reportedly in discussions with the FTC about continuing to provide Arbitron software to interested parties after its proposed merger with the radio ratings giant.

3) Nielsen rolls out a “Topten” app for consumers, but receives criticism from privacy advocates because the new tool will be collecting data from consumers who use it and selling that info to customers.

4) Gannett hires a new VP MR and Mediatek brings on a new GM Corporate Marketing, who will also have complete control over corporate MR.

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RBDR for July 25, 2013

 

Visitors across the Web are saying they are less satisfied because of the growing presence of online advertising. Precision Opinion very well could be the fastest growing on/offline data collection operation in the U.S. It held its fourth job fair since the start of 2012 this past Tuesday. New Hampshire’s attorney general continues to do battle in state courts over the legality and application of its push polling law.