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 ...
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LONDON - Microsoft has withdrawn its sponsorship of the satirical Family Guy cartoon series...The decision came after senior Microsoft executives were shown a preview of the show, which ...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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
08 Mar 2010
| by Matt Williams
LONDON - Microsoft will this week launch a multimillion-pound ad campaign to help raise awareness...London picked up the UK work from Microsoft after its sister shop, JWT New York, was appointed to handle ...
and decide". Microsoft fully launched its Bing search engine in November last year, in an attempt to challenge Google and Yahoo!'s dominance in the market. Microsoft has a 4% share of UK searches, the same ...
15 Jul 2008
| by Staff
LONDON - Microsoft has launched a website that allows Windows Live users to create their own