28 Jul 2011
| by Alasdair Reid
December 2009: When Chris Ward, Microsoft UK's commercial director, decides not to return to his job after a sabbatical, Ashley Highfield, Microsoft's managing director of consumer and online, hands ...
't immediately replaced. However, this doesn't impede Microsoft's determination to innovate on the sales side ...
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 ...
27 Aug 2008
| by Anne Cassidy
LONDON - Chris Dobson, Microsoft's UK commercial head, is leaving the internet giant to join BBC.... The move will make Chris Ward, Microsoft UK's commercial director, the company's leading commercial representative. Dobson, who has been with Microsoft for seven years, is vice-president of Microsoft UK Online Services Group, overseeing content production, sales and marketing of Microsoft's consumer online business ...
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 ...
10 Nov 2008
| by Ian Darby
, is quitting to join Microsoft....Highfield will take the new role of managing director and vice-president, consumer and online UK at Microsoft. Rob Henwood, the lead regulatory adviser at Kangaroo and former new business director of Channel ...
was director of new media and technology. Highfield's new role will involve bringing together Microsoft ...
15 Feb 2008
Yahoo! has a big fight on its hands to repel Microsoft, Alasdair Reid writes....For many observers, Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo! last
week was charged with all manner ...
of the workforce. Microsoft is another matter. After all, this is the company that was
easily vilified as a ...
been compounded by the
fact that, a short time after Microsoft made its hostile move, Google's
chief ...
18 Aug 2006
Microsoft has launched its long-awaited search service, Microsoft Adcenter. All paid-for search ads
30 Mar 2007
Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions has partnered with the social networking site Piczo
01 Dec 2006
Emap Advertising has signed a deal with Microsoft to launch the Xbox 360/FHM Global Challenge
30 Jun 2006
Brand: Microsoft UK
Clients: Nicola Young, partner development manager; Julie Williams,
partner communications manager, Microsoft
Target audience: Registered members of the Microsoft Partner ...
channel partners are unaware of the real value Microsoft can bring
to their business. In fact, some ...