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 ...
13 Jan 2012
| by Gemma Charles
competitors Nintendo and Microsoft.
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 ...
04 Jan 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
Software giant Microsoft is launching legal proceedings against troubled electronics retailer Comet...Microsoft claims Comet created more than 94,000 of the recovery CDs for Windows Vista and Windows ...
.
David Finn, worldwide anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting general counsel at Microsoft, said: "Comet ...
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"Comet's actions were unfair to customers. We expect better from retailers of Microsoft products ...
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 ...
14 Dec 2011
| by Sarah Shearman
Last.fm, the CBS-owned digital music service, has teamed up with Microsoft to launch an HTML5 app...The web-based app, called Discover, has been created by production company Somethin' Else and Microsoft's innovation team. It is sponsored by Internet Explorer 9 and is ad-free with unlimited track ...
with the Microsoft innovation team we're able to bring a huge library of independent music to new audiences ...
13 Dec 2011
| by David Singleton
Microsoft director of corporate affairs and citizenship Matt Lambert has been appointed director...Lambert, previously head of government affairs at Microsoft , will start the new role in January. He makes the departure after 12 years at the technology giant.
He will report to chief legal and regulatory affairs officer Martin Cruddace.
Lambert said of his appointment: 'Betfair is a great British ...
07 Dec 2011
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft is looking to attract developers to build apps for its forthcoming Windows 8 operating...the developer community. In a similar way to Apple, Microsoft will take a 30% cut from all digital sales ...
an 80% return, which will undercut Apple. Microsoft already has an app store for its Windows 7 devices ...
just announced it has notched up 10bn downloads globally . Microsoft has not confirmed when ...