25 Jun 2008
| by Tonya Garcia
Carl Icahn, an activist investor, launched his long-awaited blog last Thursday, at IcahnReport.com. Icahn, who recently mounted a proxy fight in favor of the Yahoo-Microsoft merger, penned his first entry as such: "Often the abuse of shareholders by entrenched management and self perpetuating boards ...
05 Mar 2008
| by Matthew McGevna
-positioned companies take advantage of the slumping stocks of targets. As evidenced by news of Microsoft s hint at a ...
understand the story? For the company looking to acquire, such as Microsoft, communications is no less difficult. Microsoft has to be able to woo shareholders into replacing Yahoo s board without exposing its ...
02 Jul 2007
| by Erica Iacono
, but not as effectively as BBC has in TV or The New York Times has in newspapers. Chu (Ketchum): Traditional media ...
22 Jan 2007
| by Tonya Garcia
, with help from their agency, Susan Davis International, will use cultural events to target specific ...
16 Jan 2007
| by Keith O'Brien
NEW YORK: PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) International has named Mike Davies director of global...From London, Davies will lead PwC s global PR network and work closely with its global leadership team. Joining PwC in 1998, Davies was most recently director of corporate communications for Europe and director of public affairs for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He replaces Peter Horowitz, who has ...
08 Jan 2007
events and people. CNN and the BBC have announced similar schemes, but Reuters has an opportunity ...
18 Dec 2006
have seemed like a picnic.
4 Microsoft One day, supposedly early next year, Vista will actually ...
, the world got to see a Mac run Microsoft Windows on its Intel-based models, which led some to ask, "Why buy ...
. But can you take a driving test with it?
6 Microsoft Zune "Join the social" is a rough tagline ...
12 Oct 2006
| by Tonya Garcia
industry has the challenge of finding ways to reach new homebuyers."
Dilsey Davis, director of media ...
nonprofits to help with publicity.
So far, the response has been positive. Davis has received calls and e ...
07 Jun 2006
| by Randi Schmelzer
NEW YORK : Microsoft's US financial services group has retained Ruder Finn as AOR....NEW YORK: Ruder Finn has won Microsoft's US financial services group (FSG) PR account. The agency ...
support to drive awareness for Microsoft FSG's partner-developed software solutions. Alicia Dollard, head ...
is tech-oriented.
Microsoft FSG sought "a boutique approach," said Ted Ladd, Microsoft FSG PR manager ...
25 Jul 2005
about it. Then take Microsoft and its commitment to a free flow of dialogue with blogs. Microsoft ...