28 Oct 2009
| by Hadassah Nymark
LONDON - Microsoft has withdrawn its sponsorship of the satirical Family Guy cartoon series...The decision came after senior Microsoft executives were shown a preview of the show, which ...
audience. Microsoft signed a deal with the show s writers, Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein, to create a ...
-for jokes as well as typical Family Guy material, which was not to the tastes of Microsoft s executives ...
17 Jul 2009
| by Staff
LONDON - Microsoft is said to be on the verge of agreeing a deal to buy Yahoo!'s web search...Top executives at Microsoft were today reported to be flying to Silicon Valley from Washington ...
/7 Wall Street said Microsoft could pay $3 billion ( 1.8 billion), and agree to share revenue from the search business with Yahoo!. A successful deal would give Microsoft almost 30 per cent of the American ...
31 Jul 2009
Microsoft and Yahoo! have reached a ten-year revenue-sharing agreement on a search and advertising
07 Dec 2009
| by Ian Darby
LONDON - Microsoft has appointed Chris Maples as the head of its Microsoft Advertising unit....and will be responsible for all commercial operations and ad revenues across all Microsoft products, from Bing and MSN to its Xbox Live and in-game advertising activities. Before joining Microsoft, Maples was managing director of DrivePM, the behavioural targeting network. Microsoft s advertising sales team was awarded ...
29 Jun 2009
| by Colin Marrs
LONDON - Publicis Groupe is rumoured to be in the running to acquire Microsoft's digital agency...The Financial Times ' website last night reported that Microsoft has appointed Morgan Stanley to sell the agency, possibly due to more favourable tax implications. An analyst quoted by the FT said ...
announced a three-pronged tie-up with Microsoft, which will see the development of targeted ad technology ...
02 Nov 2009
| by Anne Cassidy
LONDON - Chris Ward, Microsoft's commercial director, has left the company after 13 years....Ward, who had been on a three-month sabbatical, is not returning to his position. Microsoft is currently looking for a replacement and the UK sales director, Chris Maples, will act as commercial director in the interim. Ward had been with the company since 1996. His initial responsibility was to set up and run ...
13 Jul 2009
| by Staff
LONDON - Microsoft is pitching a deal for its digital ad agency Razorfish to five top ad companies...The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that WPP, Omnicom, Publicis, Dentsu and Interpublic all met last week with the internet giant to hear the pitch. Microsoft is using Morgan Stanley ...
agreements for the ad holding company to use Microsoft's digital advertising services or buy ad space across ...
06 Nov 2009
Chris Ward, Microsoft's commercial director, has left the company after 13 years. Ward, who had
31 Jul 2009
Microsoft has reported a 17 per cent fall in revenues as it was hit by greater competition from
12 Jun 2009
| by Anne Cassidy
Is the Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, a shameless fan of the
saccharine US comedy ...
for Microsoft's new search engine
(some reports say it was the Friends character Chandler Bing) is
debatable ...
population before it can
sneak up on Microsoft's nemesis, Google. Many attempts at wresting Google ...