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Walmart Reaches 5th Anniversary of Veterans Welcome Home Commitment With Announcement of More Than 200,000 Veteran Hires

Stuart Mitchell

Walmart has announced it has hired more than 200,000 veterans and promoted more than 28,000 to roles of greater responsibility since launching its Veterans Welcome Home Commitment five years ago. Recognizing the important skills and leadership abilities veterans possess, the commitment helps veterans find career opportunities at Walmart and aims to ease the sometimes difficult transition from active duty to civilian life. Walmart is now more than 80 percent of the way to reaching its goal of hiring 250,000 veterans by 2020. In May 2013, Walmart introduced the Veterans Welcome…

Xbox Adaptive Controller welcomed by UK charities and gamers with disabilities

Stuart Mitchell

A new Xbox and Windows 10 controller that lets people with disabilities plug in the assistive aids they already own to play games has been welcomed by charities in the UK. The Xbox Adaptive Controller allows those with limited mobility to use their own buttons, joysticks and switches to mimic a standard controller, so they can play any videogame. This allows them to choose which assistive aid will make the character jump, run or shoot, for example, without relying on pressing specific buttons on the controller that came with the…

SheKnows Media Welcomes an Accomplished Panel of Judges to the Fourth Annual #Femvertising Awards, Honoring Excellence in Pro-Female Advertising

Stuart Mitchell

SheKnows Media, a leading women’s media company that reaches 66 million unique visitors per month (comScore, March 2018) and more than 350 million social media fans and followers, launched the call for entries for the fourth-annual #Femvertising Awards on Equal Pay Day. Today, SheKnows announced nine impressive female leaders who will judge the 2018 submissions, and determine which ad campaigns will go on for public vote. They are: Barri Rafferty, President and CEO of Ketchum Claudia Chan, CEO of S.H.E. Summit and S.H.E. GLOBL Media, author of This is How…

Niagara Conservation Welcomes the World to the Water Revolution with Bold Rebrand

Stuart Mitchell

Niagara Conservation, the maker of the world’s most water-efficient toilet, wants to help people be the smartest version of themselves and save the planet at the same time. How? With a toilet that delivers a powerful flush by using science, and not stupid amounts of water. After decades on the forefront of flush technology (yes, that is a thing), Niagara is looking to make a splash with their new “Too Smart To Waste” positioning, a fresh look and feel, and a campaign staking its claim as the toilet for smart*sses.…

CIPR #AIinPR panel welcomes Lords’ Select Committee Report on Artificial Intelligence

Stuart Mitchell

The CIPR’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) panel has welcomed a report published today called AI in the UK: ready, willing and able, by the House of Lords Select Committee on AI. The House of Lords Committee – chaired by CIPR Honorary Fellow Lord Clement Jones – suggests that AI is a huge opportunity for the UK economy both in terms of growth and productivity. It calls on the Government to claim a global leadership position and put forward its own practical ideas for the development and application of AI. The report warns…