They served as announcements of VIP arrivals to prospective hosts as well as tangible evidence of social and business meetings.
Such appointments may be self-serving announcements that those at Davos and beyond will dismiss, but they are still important.
This redesign makes Groups feel more close knit, and will encourage them not to devolve into a chaotic array of kitten photos, political diatribes, and self-serving announcements.
The fear of a chief executive saying anything even vaguely provocative will permeate the upper ranks in the days before an event whose only "news" tends to be woefully self-serving announcements.
With the Coachella line-up announcement serving as the official kick-off to the annual U.S. festival season, festival organizers Goldenvoice can now reveal details for the 2011 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.
Along the same lines, Henry Hagerty, the president at Think Bank in New York, which represents companies that produce special effects for advertising, created a short film meant to serve as a public service announcement to raise awareness about suicide.
But analysts said Khamenei's announcements served to reinforce the assumption of U.S. and European officials that Iran wants to be more integrated in the world.
Economists worry that the economy could now be losing as many as 600,000 jobs a month, and they said Monday's layoff announcements served to underline the stricken state of the labor market.
GLaDOS's announcements serve not only to instruct Chell and help her progress through the game, but also to create atmosphere and develop the AI as a character.
It showed me how the normal announcements serve the additional function of signaling the start of the show, like "fasten your seatbelts" on an airplane.
Most governance experts do seem to agree on one point: that the secrecy that adds surprise and excitement to Apple product announcements is not serving the company well in other areas.
