22 May 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft is aiming to increase visitor numbers to MSN UK with its first consumer-facing campaign
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
01 Mar 2012
| by Maisie McCabe
Volkswagen, the car marque, and Microsoft's cloud-based software Office 365 are the first...The radio operator's targeted advertising launched yesterday (28 February) and allows brands to target their radio advertising to listeners who are tuning into the station online by age, gender and geographical region.
The Microsoft Office 365 ad was made by Weborama, with media planning and buying ...
07 Feb 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft has appointed Mandeep Mason, sales director at Nokia-owned Navteq, as director of mobile...Mason will be responsible for developing Microsoft's mobile advertising proposition across ...
and adverting on Skype mobile.
He replaces Paul Lyonette, who left Microsoft last August to join YuMe ...
into Laurent Delaporte, vice president of Microsoft Advertising, EMEA.
Mason has worked at Nokia for nearly ...
26 Jan 2012
| by Jeremy Lee
The late James Graham Ballard is one of the few people who would find any inspiration in Microsoft ...
and that, even to an agnostic, there's a life that extends beyond the reach of Microsoft - Hart is rather ...
. This followed a period when Microsoft Advertising appeared to be in a state of perpetual flux and getting ...
11 Jan 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft has appointed Donna Hindson to the newly created role of director of trade marketing...Hindson's role replaces that of Nickie Smith, who was marketing director of Microsoft Advertising. Smith is has taken a job with Microsoft International, but a spokesperson for the company did ...
of marketing and partnerships in its Future Media Group.
Prior to this role, Hindson worked at Microsoft ...
22 Dec 2011
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft has sold its online shopping portal Ciao to LeGuide.com, the pan-European publisher..., was acquired by Microsoft in August 2008, for nearly half a billion dollars .
In 2009, Ciao was integrated into Microsoft's then new search engine Bing, including a Ciao shopping engine on the UK MSN site.
A spokeswoman for Microsoft said: "Microsoft plans to continue to offer the same great Ciao experience to Bing ...
16 Dec 2011
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft Advertising UK has promoted group account director Nik Dewar to role of head of mobile ad...Dewar replaces Lee Blyth, who recently left the role to join mobile ad network InMobi as head of sales for the London office. Dewar joined Microsoft in 2006 as sales manager and has held his most ...
for all mobile ad sales across Microsoft Advertising properties including the MSN mobile browser, ads ...
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