Fake news isn’t new. The deliberate spread of misinformation goes back thousands of years, with examples throughout ancient and modern history. In Roman times, it’s believed that emperor Mark Anthony committed suicide as a result of a misinformation campaign....

Some sectors and markets will always have a negative stigma attached to them and this can be attributed to a number of factors. Unregulated markets such as alternative investments are one example, with cryptocurrency presently being the most prominent. Others (for obvious reasons) would be legal representation, solicitors, debt collection agencies, private car parking enforcement, energy brokers… the list is pretty long....

Reputation is fragile. A single misstep, even just a badly handled customer complaint, can bring the most carefully built reputation crashing down. Many big name brands have found themselves trapped in a bad publicity vortex after a negative story was captured by the popular imagination and went viral. Smaller businesses may be less likely to find their mistakes on the national news, but they can be just as vulnerable with less resources to combat the situation and less ...

This is one of the first questions any business or individual asks when deciding to manage their reputation. Unfortunately, there isn’t a straightforward answer. ORM and Reputation management specialists combine multiple techniques to promote content, attract organic traffic, and push negative results off the first page of a search. Many different factors come into play during this process and can affect the timeframe for results....

Amadeus - Spanish IT Provider for the tourism and travel industry - is currently hitting headlines around the world....

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Building a business is complicated enough that it’s tempting to overlook reputation management, or at least leave it until things are up and running. This is a mistake. Today’s entrepreneurs need to take their online profile seriously from the start. It doesn’t take long for a new company to attract unflattering comments on the internet and a single negative result ranking on page one of a Google search can cost the business as much as 22 percent of its revenue....

Bet365, which proclaims itself as 'one of the world's leading online gambling companies', made headlines earlier this month when it refused to pay out a £1 million winning bet....

American image hosting website Photobucket made headlines earlier this week and found itself amidst a crisis when it was revealed that thousands of images embedded by its users on third-party websites had been removed....

Uber has faced countless reputation management issues since it was founded in 2009, from customer service failures, to strategic price hikes, to driver pay and failure to fulfil the legal requirements for operation in some countries. In the last year alone, a video surfaced showing Uber’s CEO berating a driver and a former female engineer has charged the company with systemic sexism and harassment over her year-long employment. At the same time, Uber is still trying to field ...