Branson prepared to lower his asking price for Virgin Mobile
12 Dec 2005 | by by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - Sir Richard Branson is prepared to accept less for his stake in Virgin Mobile so that NTL will go ahead with its takeover of the company.
LONDON – Carphone Warehouse has agreed to buy OneTel from Centrica in a deal worth as much as £154.2m, depending on the number of customers Centrica recruits for Carphone Warehouse over the next three years.
LONDON - Sir Richard Branson is prepared to accept less for his stake in Virgin Mobile so that NTL will go ahead with its takeover of the company.
LONDON - Noel Gallagher has berated White Stripes' frontman Jack White for writing a song for a Coke ad, saying it was as bad as doing an ad for McDonald's.
LONDON – Customer publisher The Publishing Agency, which recently underwent a management buyout from Interpublic, has relaunched as Story Worldwide and won the global Nortel account.
LONDON – Cable company NTL is in talks with Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile about a merger, allowing it to take on Sky by rebranding as Virgin and offering mobile calls as well as TV, broadband and fixed-line calls.
LONDON - Sixty-five viewers got wound up by PC World's new television ad campaign selling the joys of wireless internet access, resulting in the ad getting banned for being misleading.
LONDON - Top Gear magazine is trawling for new subscribers via a mobile marketing initiative including a free DVD promotion.
LONDON - Charities are being offered free email and SMS marketing technology in a Christmas promotion by marketing software company Sign-Up.to.
LONDON – Lad's mag Nuts has taken its first step into 3G video content with the not entirely unpredictable translation of its 'Assess My Breasts' feature, as part of new investment in digital content.
LONDON - Using a recent, real-life schoolboy's murder as a hook in a marketing email for its school pupil registration system has brought a warning from the advertising watchdog for technology company Anteon UK.
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