Sound familiar to you … even with
powerful mobile devices and network services (i.e. laptop, tablet,
smartphone, etc.) at your fingertips? Sometimes, we just can't stop in
our tracks to access and engage meaningful content. But the businesses
we trust need to ensure it's easy to choose when and where we engage
with their people and brand experiences.

Why pay women more when you can simply give them a more important sounding job title?

This year's Money League report from Deloitte on the world's 20 biggest soccer teams (see full report below) shows aggregate revenue of 4.4 billion Euro ($6.3 billion)  during the 2010-11 season, 3% more than the previous year. The five teams with the most revenue were Real Madrid ($695 million), FC Barcelona ($653 million), Manchester United ($532 million), Bayern Munich ($466 million) and Arsenal ($364 million).

Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly US$1.9 billion, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for US$3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close.

As an Amazon Prime subscriber, Michael Manzo, CMO of Openet, loves the new licensing agreement Amazon and Viacom have signed. The value is worth it just for the reduced shipping costs, he says. Briefly, Amazon and Viacom have inked a licensing agreement that will make thousands of new titles, including The Hills, Jersey Shore, The Hard Times of RJ Berger, The Real World, Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob SquarePants, Yo Gabba Gabba and Hot in Cleveland available to Prime customers.