GSK Seeks Employees on YouTube

kavin submitted, created time 5 months 1 week (www.wnbc.com)

Doctors do it. Patients do it. Now GlaxoSmithKline is jumping into the self-publishing video game on YouTube.

The company says it’s a way to talk more directly to the public. Glaxo, as we first learned from Pharmalot, posted a couple of corporate videos on YouTube earlier this month. In a previous foray on YouTube, Glaxo had provided information about its over-the-counter weight-loss medicine, Alli.

In a recruitment video that went online last week, CEO Andrew Witty talks about the benefits of working at the company, noting that he joined right out of college

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Genentech faces buyout by Roche. Will it be worth it?

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To the tune of $43.7 billion USD, Roche is about to buy out Genentech. Of course Roche already owns over 50% of Genentech stock, a good controlling interest, but up until now has taken a very hands-off approach, acting more like the other company's investor than its boss, content with its rights to market Genentech products outside the U.S. It seems as if that is about to change. The concern here is what the deal might mean for the culture of biotechs and the researchers who work for them

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