20 Feb 2009
Sharon Baylay, Microsoft's former online services manager, has joined the BBC as its director
16 Feb 2009
| by Sarah Johnson
LONDON - The BBC has appointed former Microsoft manager, Sharon Baylay, to the executive board...Baylay replaces Tim Davie who was promoted to director of audio and music last year. She was previously general manager of Microsoft online services division in the UK. In her new role, Baylay ...
services across the BBC. At Microsoft she had responsibility for the growth and development of the company ...
07 Sep 2007
| by Jacquie Bowser
LONDON - Microsoft's Online Services Business has appointed Direct Line's Paul Davies as head...Messenger and Windows Live Hotmail . Davies joins Microsoft following two years as head of brand ...
Davies will be responsible for developing strategic marketing campaigns for each of the brands ...
. Davies said: It s an exciting time in the online world. The innovation coming in Live Search ...
02 Mar 2005
| by Colin Grimshaw
The BBC has ended its nine-month search for a successor to Andy Duncan with the appointment...Davie, 37, was offered the ITV marketing director role last October and initially accepted the job before changing his mind. The job eventually went to former AA marketer Claire Salmon.
Davie ...
Europe. He oversaw the blue relaunch of Pepsi in 1996.
His first task at the BBC will be to axe a ...
29 Oct 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON - The BBC and Microsoft have signed a deal that will see the software giant develop...Elsevier lobbied the government to stop the BBC project going ahead.
Microsoft won the contract after a ...
producers.
Microsoft will work alongside its existing partners in the UK education market, HP and BBC ...
The BBC's online education resource was given the go ahead by the European Commission earlier ...
05 Jul 2006
| by by Sarah Woods
eight years as Microsoft creates a new online services unit to be headed by Sharon Baylay....Kent, who has been country manager of the group for the last three years, helped Microsoft's MSN ...
Technology Woman of the Year in the private sector. Prior to joining MSN, she launched and managed Microsoft's first consumer software products in the UK.
Baylay has been appointed to the new role of general ...
10 Nov 2008
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - Ashley Highfield is leaving the delayed BBC, ITV and Channel 4 video on-demand joint..., MSN, Live Search and Microsoft Advertising. Based in London, he will report to John Mangelaars, Vice President, Consumer and Online, Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa. Project Kangaroo has ...
role as the BBC's director of future media and technology to take the chief executive role at Kangaroo ...
30 Jul 2009
| by Jacquie Bowser
LONDON - Microsoft is launching an online TV player called MSN Video that will stream full...The video-on-demand service will initially offer over 300 hours of old and new content from BBC ...
of each programme and then commercial breaks during the show. It will be available on Microsoft's MSN ...
, Microsoft plans to roll it out across its Xbox 360 video game console, Windows Mobile and onto TV screens ...
07 Jun 2005
| by by Daniel Farey-Jones
Davies, who is currently its head of market intelligence....later this year.
Prior to joining Ofcom in October 2003, Davies spent nine years at the BBC ...
The role requires the former BBC man to lead Ofcom's radio and multimedia content strategy as well as leading the radio, multimedia and media literacy teams in content and standards.
Davies retains his ...
20 Feb 2002
| by James Ratcliff,
are run by Microsoft....MSN.co.uk or MSN.com, while just fewer than 50% visited Microsoft.com and its mail service, Passport ...
to how many unique visitors were received throughout January.
Microsoft occupies half the top 10 slots with Yahoo.com, in fourth place, being the first non-Microsoft site to appear, ahead of Freeserve ...