Ofcom chief executive quits
News He will be stepping down from his post in October, and some have speculated he will return to a board position at WPP, the communications group where he served prior to joining NTL. Ben Verwaayen, the chief executive of BT Group, told ZDNet UK that...
[May 26, 2006, 12:30]
Microsoft to spend $6bn on Aquantive
News Earlier this week, ad giant WPP Group said it will spend $649m (£328m) to buy digital marketer 24/7 Real Media, a company Microsoft had recently been rumoured to be interested in. In a bid to boost its presence in advertising, Microsoft said on...
[May 18, 2007, 14:35]
Microsoft sells online ad agency Razorfish
News Microsoft had reportedly been shopping Razorfish around for the past few months, with top ad firms WPP, Omnicom Group, and Publicis Groupe all expressing interest in Razorfish. French advertising group Publicis Groupe has agreed to acquire internet...
[August 10, 2009, 13:18]
AOL buys ad firm Tacoda
News Google wants to buy online ad company DoubleClick for $3.1bn; Yahoo recently spent $680m for 80 percent of Right Media it didn't own; Microsoft is offering $6bn to buy Aquantive; and WPP Group is acquiring 24/7 for nearly $650m.
[July 25, 2007, 8:28]
Sizing up Microsoft's Aquantive deal
News Earlier this week, WPP Group said it would buy ad-serving company 24/7 Real Media for $649m. Aquantive who? The company Microsoft is acquiring for its highest purchase price ever may not even register on the radar of most consumers.
[May 21, 2007, 9:43]
Companies fight to protect cookies
News WPP Group's J Walter Thompson, whose clients include Merrill Lynch and De Beers Consolidated Mines, recently struck a deal to use DoubleClick as its exclusive ad network in return for receiving the data from its ad campaigns.
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