By Staff on January 23, 2012
Stricken Canadian mobile company Research in Motion (RIM) which makes BlackBerry has dumped its two joint chairmen and CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie and replaced them with COO Thorsten Heins (pictured) who joined from Siemens in 2007. Heins’ job is doubtless to get some of Blackberry’s long-promised new products off the production line but [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News | Tagged Amazon, amv/bbdo, android, apple, BlackBerry, canada, chief marketing officer, corporate market, emails, global ad agency, Jim Balsillie, Microsoft, Mike Lazaridis, new operating system, omnicom, playbook tablet, research in motion, samsung, Thorsten Heins
By Stephen Foster on January 20, 2012
It’s tough in the tech market these days and not just for the likes Yahoo, whose founder Jerry Yang departed this week, and BlackBerry owner RIM which is believed to be seeking a rescue from Samsung. Now even the mighty Google has shocked Wall Street investors by reporting an eight per cent decline in its [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged big bets, BlackBerry, cost increase, cost per click, display ads, google, Jerry Yang, Larry Page, rim, samsung, wall street, yahoo
By Stephen Foster on November 3, 2011
The best you can say about famous UK creative Trevor Beattie’s agency Beattie McGuinness Bungay is that it’s been a moderate success: it’s still here and it sold a 49 per cent stake to South Korea-based holding company Cheil in 2008 (Cheil surprised everybody by winning a place on General Motors’ global creative Chevrolet pitch [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Andrew McGuinness, beattie mcguinness bungay, bmb madison, cheil, general motors, goodstuff, Holly Branson, India, madison world, media independent, pretty polly, pussy drinks, Sam Branson, samsung, Trevor Beattie, us office
By Staff on October 21, 2011
It’s still all go at General Motors and now global CMO Joel Ewanick (pictured), who doesn’t hang around, is adding to his workload by pitching the global creative account for its biggest brand, Chevrolet. GM’s $3bn global media account is also currently under review with Publicis Groupe’s Starcom MediaVest and incumbent Interpublic’s General Motors Planworks [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged beattie mcguinness bungay, Bruce Haines, cadillac, cheil worldwide, chevrolet, China, ford, general motors planworks, global creative account, global media account, goodby silverstein & partners, hyundai, Interpublic, Jeff Goodby, Joel Ewanick, omnicom, publicis, publicis groupe, samsung, south korea, starcom mediavest, WPP
By Stephen Foster on August 16, 2011
It might as well, former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop’s rescue plan for Nokia (still the world’s biggest mobile maker) depends entirely on Microsoft’s Windows 7 phone technology to power a new but belated generation of smartphones. Google’s $12.5bn agreed deal to buy Motorola is being depicted as, primarily, a big move in the patents war. [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News | Tagged agreed deal, android, apple, google, iPad, Microsoft, motorola, nokia, samsung, Stephen Elop, Steve Jobs, windows 7 smartphone
By Stephen Foster on July 6, 2011
Mumbai-born Satish Korde is to be the new CEO of WPP’s Team Detroit, the agency CEO Sir Martin Sorrell set up six years ago to handle the network’s biggest account, Ford. His predecessor, George Rogers, is going off to be global business development director of WPP, which may be a promotion, or not. Sorrell has [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged dearborn, Dell, detroit, enfatico, ford, George Rogers, hsbc, JWT, ogilvy & mather, samsung, Satish Korde, Sir Martin Sorrell, team detroit, WPP, wpp succession
By Stephen Foster on June 3, 2011
They do things differently in Japan, where else would you find a company like Yamaha that makes both motorbikes and pianos successfully? But the once-mighty Sony has become a truly rambling conglomerate, rather like Philips in Europe used to be but more so, chasing a commercial turnaround by gambling on what it thinks is the [...]
Posted in Clients, News | Tagged annual loss, bravia tv, copycats, hackers, japan, japanese tsunami, luiz security, philips, Playstation, samsung, Sir Howard Stringer, Sony, sony pictures, south korea, yamaha
By Stephen Foster on February 28, 2011
If there’s one consistent theme to Sir Martin Sorrell’s long tenure at WPP (apart from delivering the numbers of course) it’s his belief that WPP can and should set up customised mini-agencies for big clients. The most recent is Blue Hive for the global launch of the new Ford Focus (and many Ford models besides, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged arnold, barrie d'rozario murphy, blue hive, Dell, enfatico, ford, Peter Stringham, samsung, sid lee, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP, wunderman, y&r, y&r brands
By Stephen Foster on December 8, 2010
There’s no stopping those Googlers in their drive for world domination and now they’re taking on Microsoft (and ultimately Apple) with Chrome OS, a new operating system that relies solely on internet or ‘cloud’ storage for software. Chrome OS is currently being trialled by some big American companies prior to making its debut next year [...]
Posted in Clients, News | Tagged acer, apple, google chrome os, kinect, microsoft office, samsung, wii, xbox 360
By Stephen Foster on October 12, 2010
Tech giant Microsoft, widely criticised for failing to innovate at the same pace as Apple and Google, has unveiled its most important new product for years, Windows Phone 7. The launch comes hard on the heels of the withdrawal of its disastrous ‘social’ Kin phone and is a test not just for the company’s ambitions [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged android, cispin porter + bogusky, Dell, google, htc, kin, lg, Microsoft, samsung, windows phone 7
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