Carl Icahn, an activist investor, launched his long-awaited blog last Thursday, at IcahnReport.com.

Social networking giant MySpace will undergo a redesign beginning this week in a bid to boost ad sales, The New York Times reports today.

The Minneapolis-St. Paul region provides many opportunities for PR professionals.

Laura Rowly has written her "Money & Happiness" bi-weekly column since 2005, which is read by 20 million visitors a month. In addition to writing a book of the same title, Rowley has reported on finance for many years for both print and broadcast media. Rowley also serves as an adjunct professor of religious studies at Seton Hall.

SAN DIEGO, CA: John White, director of the division of corporation finance at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), issued a "wake-up call" to the attendees of the National Investor Relations Institute's (NIRI) annual conference, speaking about the role of technology in IR during his remarks here on Monday.

WASHINGTON: The US Mint is working with GolinHarris on a campaign promoting the use of presidential $1 coins as common currency.

There's no doubt that money is a major worry of the moment. The sub-prime mortgage mess spawned a related, and scarier, prime crisis, in which even people with traditional, 30-year-fixed mortgages are getting anxious. As the sub-prime borrowers who accepted too-good-to-be-true offers on their mortgages wake up to adjustable rates that have shot way up, they're defaulting on their loans, home prices are tumbling, and the entire economy is quaking

For companies looking to target financial advisors, a consistent and useful message is what resonates.

In April, PRWeek's Nicole Zerillo reported that Bear Stearns' failure to communicate its liquidity situation hastened its downfall. The Wall Street Journal recently reported on a similar issue, and provded a detailed account of how fears and rumors ultimately led to the bank's downfall.

MANAMA, BAHRAIN: The Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB) recently hired Weber Shandwick to promote Bahrain worldwide as a business-friendly center for financial dealings in the Middle East.