Google has joined the U.S. President Obama challenge to train 100,000 high-quality science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers in 10 years.
Every successful brand or company has a team of people, who developed the winning strategy and helped it move forth—and, in its turn, every team has its leader. Adweek, the magazine dedicated to covering creativity, client/agency relationships and global advertising, honors world’s most powerful marketers, who contributed to strengthening international brands, which shape out today’s culture and in some way determine our tomorrow. This year Adweek will celebrate eleven individuals, who helped global brands continue re-imagining our world, with the prestigious Brand Genius awards (formerly known as Marketer of the Year) “for their success in genius concepts.”
Coca-Cola (#1) takes the lead in Interbrand‘s 2011 Best Global Brands report for the 12th consecutive year. Another brand leader is Apple (#8). With a brand value that increased a staggering 58 percent, Apple is this year’s top riser and, for the first time, it sits amongst the top 10 brands listed in Interbrand’s report (see the full list of brands below).
Google+, the colorful technology giants’ social network is now open to everyone. After being invite-only for nearly three months, yesterday Google+ moved from “field trial to beta, and introduce our 100th feature: open signups,” said Vic Gundotra, Google’s Senior Vice President of Engineering in the official company’s blog.