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Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 13 Aug 2008 03:01 AM PST
ITV’s (LSE: ITV) upcoming price comparison site will be a JV with Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) Kelkoo, reckons NMA. The broadcaster was known to have been working on a Pricerunner-style site…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Jul 2008 07:39 AM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) - a relative newcomer to broadcast policy lobbying - responded to Ofcom’s ongoing second review of public service broadcasting (PSB) by picking holes in the regulator’s vision…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 10 Jul 2008 06:51 AM PST
Though the European Commission last week told me Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) hadn’t flagged its Google (NSDQ: GOOG) search partnership to its antitrust authority, when I asked Yahoo whether it would…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 02 Jul 2008 08:31 AM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) have elected not to seek the European Commission’s permission for their ad sharing deal - but that doesn’t mean the proposal won’t face…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 26 Jun 2008 08:54 PM PST
As had been anticipated, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has announced yet another reorganization. In a move designed to “leverage”, “accelerate”, “monetize” and “enhance” (all Jerry Yang’s words), the company is centralizing…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 25 Jun 2008 05:34 AM PST
Paris-based ad holding company Publicis Groupe has formed an ad network relying on all four of the major ad serving systems run by Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Google/DoubleClick, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)…
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 20 Jun 2008 04:56 PM PST
Perhaps the title of the Cannes International Advertising Festival panel—“From Metrics to Brand: Online’s Next Challenge"-- was deliberately bland. But the chance to see the outspoken WPP Group’s CEO Sir…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 19 Jun 2008 11:02 AM PST
-- Hamann: Robin Hamann, who has done more than most to popularise use of blogs at the BBC, is leaving the corporation for social media consultancy Headshift. A blog advocate,…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 17 Jun 2008 12:41 AM PST
Some UK digital ad agencies are already getting nervous about Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) face-saving deal to display ads from a Google increasingly dominant in the sector. Two examples from a…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 04 Jun 2008 09:12 PM PST
A slew of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) news today, beginning with its announced partnership with Havas Digital, its display and video ad deal with Walmart.com (NYSE: WMT), the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 04 Jun 2008 09:10 PM PST
Combining the aspects of a press conference with speed dating, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) president Sue Decker, along with Mike Walrath, SVP, Yahoo Advertiser Marketplace Group, and Todd Teresi SVP, Yahoo…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 21 May 2008 01:11 AM PST
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer will be hoping to avoid the kind of reception he received in Budapest, as he continues a whirlwind tour of central and eastern Europe.…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 20 May 2008 02:55 AM PST
Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) top trio met in the UK last night to discuss revived Microsoft-Yahoo talks. Earlier yesterday, CEO Eric Schmidt gave his first reaction to journalists: “It’s too early.…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 16 May 2008 01:39 AM PST
Consoling each other at acquisition travails and an overly-dominant Google (NSDQ: GOOG) respectively, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and WPP are trumpeting a partnership that will see the ad firm place its…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 09 May 2008 08:23 AM PST
The apparent end of acquisition talks between Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is “a shame” for the advertising industry, according to Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of the WPP…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 06 May 2008 10:58 AM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) stock crept up slightly on various European markets on Tuesday, after plummeting as much as 12.9 percent Monday following Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) cancellation of its acquisition bid.…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 05 May 2008 10:14 PM PST
Not that this is a surprise, since analysts have been saying since this weekend that the “no” is not the final no. Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Jerry Yang now says…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Sat 03 May 2008 10:54 PM PST
For quick access to our coverage on Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) withdrawing its offer to purchase Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) on paidContent.org… -- BREAKING: Microsoft Withdraws Offer For Yahoo -- MSFT-YHOO: From…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 29 Apr 2008 06:41 AM PST
News Group head of communication strategy Paul Thompson is quitting the company and heading over to Yahoo Europe, where he has landed the position of head of planning and strategy,…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 Apr 2008 04:46 AM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Europe is promoting business sales VP Christophe Parcot to fill the top sales VP spot after losing Javier Zapatero to Google (NSDQ: GOOG). Zapatero will become Google’s…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 14 Mar 2008 09:41 AM PST
As AOL (NYSE: TWX) takes control of Bebo, don’t overlook Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). The social network in September struck a deal with the portal to power its display advertising in…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 13 Mar 2008 02:35 PM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), which had been threatening its European operations for the last year to shape up or they would be shipped out, has done just that: it is moving…
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 29 Feb 2008 08:55 AM PST
Ad holding company WPP Group posted higher 2007 earnings, as net income rose 6.9 percent to 465.9 million pounds ($925.8 million) from 435.8 million pounds the year before. Revenues came…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 19 Feb 2008 05:00 PM PST
The BBC has struck deals to syndicate TV show clips to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), MSN and Blinkx in order to build iPlayer traffic. Excerpts on those destination sites will link…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 13 Feb 2008 02:55 AM PST
Another executive departs Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) UK. After four years at the search engine, regional sales director for Northern Europe and the “face of Yahoo’s search operation” Richard Firminger has…
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