OFF the CUFF
  • Live from Yahoo's Digital NewFront earlier this week, CNBC's Becky Quick interviews Sir Martin Sorrell CEO of WPP Group. The head of the world largest advertising agency speaks of media trends and the dubious future for print outlets. "In 4 or 5 years at least two-thirds of our business will come from the digital areas and the fast growing markets," Sorrell tells Off the Cuff. He also notes that the trend to mobile in the emerging markets is significant as countries like China and India have, "leap frogged the PC" in favor of cheaper smartphones.

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  • FUBU Founder Daymond John: Regrets, I’ve Had a Few

    Daymond John, self-made multi-millionaire entrepreneur, co-founder of FUBU, investor on ABC’s “Shark Tank,” marketing whiz: He has few regrets, but he tells “Off The Cuff” what he would do differently, and shares the lessons he’s learned as an entrepreneur. John details what he looks for in a business partner, the challenges of celebrity endorsements, and why he keeps his private life under wraps.

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  • She-Devil. Delusional. Shrill. Self-promoter. The Worst.

    Just some of the names people have called attorney Gloria Allred.

    She doesn’t seem to care. “When people call me names I know that I've won because it means they have no good argument to present,” Allred told Off The Cuff. “When they use names, or four-letter words, that means I've won. They've had to resort to name calling. So they've sent up the flag so to speak: ‘you've won, we’ve lost. This is all we've got now’," she said.

    In her nearly forty-year career, Allred has made her name by representing women – and the occasional man - who say they’ve been wronged. There was Amber Frey, the mistress of Scott Peterson later convicted of the 2002 murder of his wife; a member of the Spice Girls singing group who sued Eddie Murphy for child support; an alleged mistress of Tiger Woods; a porn star who was pen pals with Rep. Anthony Weiner; a woman who accused former presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment. The list goes on.

    “My clients are often the victims of injustice by the rich, by the powerful, by the famous, by large corporations - victims of child molesters, rapists, batterers, sexual harassers,” Allred said, “I am determined to level the playing field. We have to meet power with power because power only understands power. And that's the only leverage our clients have."

    Then there are the cases that don’t make the tabloids. She’s worked on a myriad of wrongful termination cases, AIDS discrimination cases, child abuse cases, gay and lesbian rights.

    “I care about real people with real problems whose names you've probably never heard of, unless and until we make them public, but who have been hurt significant ways…. we're like a private attorney general, we're there to enforce the laws,” she said.

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  • Gaming Exec: I’m as Addicted as You Are

    Jack Tretton has no illusions about the addictive nature of video games.

    “If you're a gamer, it's really gaming, food, and sleep,” Tretton, the president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, told “Off The Cuff.”

    “If you do get into gaming, you find yourself passing hours and hours away,” he said. “It is incredibly immersive, it's addictive, and once you get hooked, you can't put the controller down. You find yourself leaving late for work, or for school, and you rush back to start gaming again as quickly as possible.”

    Sony Computer Entertainment of America (a unit of Sony Computer Entertainment) publishes and markets Sony’s Playstation. More than 70 million Playstation units have been sold worldwide.

    “Anytime I have some free time and I want to escape, I'll whip out my Vita”—a Sony handheld console—“and do some portable gaming,” Tretton said. He said he plays whenever he’s stuck at an airport or on a plane. “In that passive environment where I am a prisoner, gaming is a great escape.”

    “We've got a billion people worldwide that consider themselves gamers now. There'll be generations going forward where it would be very strange to have not played a game,” Tretton said.

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