16 Aug 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Gavyn Davies, the deputy chairman of the BBC, is expected to snub a government offer...for the coveted BBC chairman's job.
Davies' wife, Sue Nye, is Gordon Brown's assistant and his appointment would compromise the BBC's position as an impartial broadcaster because of his cash donations ...
Davies, the millionaire Goldman Sachs economist, is believed to have been offered the post ...
29 Sep 2006
| by by Alex Donohue
LONDON - The BBC and Microsoft have signed a strategic partnership that focuses on the corporation....
It is understood that the BBC plans to use Microsoft technology as part of its shift into the "Web 2.0 Age ...
and on any device."
The BBC said its deal with Microsoft aims to identify areas of common interest between ...
's headquarters, by BBC director-general Mark Thompson, Ashley Highfield, BBC director of new media and technology ...
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 ...
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 ...
26 Jul 2006
| by Melanie Godsell
Microsoft has taken first place in this year's Superbrands Awards, intended to recognise...Other brands that were included in the top 10 Superbrands list were the
BBC, British Airways, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Marks & Spencer, Google,
Heinz, Duracell and Sony. This year saw consumers contributing to the final decision on the
winners for the first time. Two thousand people were asked ...
21 Mar 2006
| by by Sam Matthews
LONDON – The BBC is forging links with digital giants such as Microsoft, Sony and Apple....
Highfield took to the stage with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates to show a version of its on-demand player on Windows Vista, Microsoft's next-generation operating system.
The BBC has just completed a three ...
Speaking at Mix06 conference in Las Vegas, Ashley Highfield, BBC director of new media, said ...
12 May 2006
Microsoft has bought the computer game advertising company Massive Inc in a deal estimated...in real life, such as on posters, television
screens and packaging. Microsoft is also examining how ...
. "Joining forces with Microsoft will allow Massive to deliver even
greater benefits for advertisers, game developers and gamers through one
of the world's largest, most comprehensive online networks," Mitchell
Davis ...
29 Jun 2005
| by by Daniel Farey-Jones
service next summer, having signed a deal to use Microsoft technology....Trials of the service are scheduled for next spring, and negotiations between BT and content providers such as the BBC are ongoing.
BT would provide the service through a set-top box capable ...
-over-cable services.
BT is to use Microsoft's IPTV Edition technology, which the software company said allows ...
21 Jul 2008
| by Nikki Sandison
LONDON - Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot to take the crown of the UK's most popular...The search engine moves up two places from the number three spot last year, knocking Microsoft ...
brand in a Superbrands survey of 1,500 professionals earlier this year. Despite Microsoft's drop ...
in at number 11. The BBC was the highest placed British company at number four, followed by British Airways ...
21 Sep 1999
| by STEVE BELL
Eidos Interactive has confirmed John Davis as marketing director.
Davis joined the firm in 1996...Eidos Interactive has confirmed John Davis as marketing director.
Davis joined the firm in 1996 as marketing manager and was promoted to
head of marketing in 1997. He is responsible for the marketing support
of Eidos top-selling game, Tomb Raider.
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