22 May 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft is aiming to increase visitor numbers to MSN UK with its first consumer-facing campaign
10 May 2012
| by Charles Arthur
Apple, Google and Microsoft and their many business battles over the past 15 years, I had plenty of time ...
and Microsoft - however, have rather different PR strategies. Here's my take on them, as someone on what you ...
as it has got bigger and come into more direct rivalry with Microsoft and, more recently, Facebook.
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04 May 2012
| by Kim Benjamin
used by Microsoft and Google - AppNexus and AdEx - and assesses their potential for advertisers....7stars, to assess how two key players stack up against each other. Ireland looked at Microsoft ...
opportunities.
Google uses its own technology, built on DoubleClick Ad Exchange (AdEx), while Microsoft uses AppNexus technology, effectively outsourcing its RTB capability. Microsoft narrowly emerged as the winner ...
01 May 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft has stepped up its rivalry with Apple and Amazon with a $300m (£185m) investment in a...The deal will involve Microsoft taking a 17.6% stake in the subsidiary and rolling out the "Nook" ebook platform, based on Barnes Noble's service, across its operating system Windows 8.
Windows 8 is expected to launch in the autumn and will be available across a wider range of tablet devices and Microsoft ...
25 Apr 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
Google has launched a major cloud storage service to rival Dropbox, Microsoft's SkyDrive and Apple...The service, dubbed Google Drive, enables users to store up to 16TB (terabytes) of digital content such as photos, videos and PDFs, in the cloud, with the first five 5GB (gigabytes) of storage for free.
Cloud storage is one of the new online battlegrounds in which Apple, Microsoft and now Google will compete ...
24 Apr 2012
| by Nick Batten
The ads launch today (24 April) in partnership with Carat and Microsoft Advertising on Xbox Live. They have been created to inspire and educate 16- to 24-year-old males about the importance of paying ...
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Viewers who vote for their favourite scene will be entered into a competition to win Microsoft points ...
10 Apr 2012
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
AOL has agreed to sell more than 800 technology patents to Microsoft as part of a $1.06bn (£670m...-exclusive licence for Microsoft to these retained patents.
AOL intends to return "a significant portion" of the proceeds to its shareholders.
The AOL-Microsoft deal is the latest in a series of patent agreements ...
27 Mar 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft is embarking on its most significant marketing push to date for its Internet Explorer...It is launching two separate campaigns to promote the latest version of the browser (IE9), as well as driving awareness of the Internet Explorer brand itself.
Microsoft will roll out a UK variant of its ...
, this reinforces that there is much greater consumer interest in technology , and has given Microsoft a reason ...
20 Mar 2012
| by Mark Banham
director of Mi9 a joint venture between Microsoft and Australian broadcaster Nine Entertainment....His remit at the new organisation will be to spearhead the Mi9 Advertising and Microsoft Media Network teams, including "sales, insights and a newly commercially-integrated creative production house Mi ...
details of his role within the Microsoft commercial offering are still being finalised.
James joined ...
20 Mar 2012
| by John Reynolds
Microsoft has confirmed that the BBC iPlayer will launch on the Xbox, after an agreement between..."hopefully we will have something to share with you very soon". Microsoft says 42% of Xbox Live Gold ...
been delayed because of an issue between the two parties over charging for BBC content. Microsoft had ...