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By Stephen Foster on February 11, 2011
Sometimes you just have to admit you’ve been left behind and that’s what new Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has done in announcing today a ‘global partnership’ with Microsoft to use its new Windows Phone as Nokia’s smartphone operating system. Elop, himself a former Microsoft executive, was always expected to decide to dump Nokia’s own Symbian [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged android, google, iPhone, meego, Microsoft, nokia, Stephen Elop, Steve Jobs, symbian, windows phone
By Stephen Foster on February 3, 2011
Well if you look at this presentation for the launch of his new iPad paper The Daily you might come to that conclusion. Editor Jesse Angelo does a good job, clearly understanding all of it and then Rupe himself emerges from the wings to bang on about how The Daily evades newspaper-style print and distribution [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged apple, davos, family, iPad, James Murdoch, Jesse Angelo, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Jobs, the daily
By Stephen Foster on January 20, 2011
Heaven knows what Google is worried about but the sudden decision to boot CEO Eric Schmidt upstairs to executive chairman and replace him with founder Larry Page (pictured) does not suggest a company at ease with itself or its prospects. So what are the Googlers worried about? Its profits are going through the roof, Android [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged android, apple, Eric Schmidt, google, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Steve Jobs, yahoo
By Stephen Foster on January 18, 2011
Nobody doubts that Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook is capable of running Apple in the absence of visionary founder Steve Jobs, he’s done it twice before as Jobs, 55, battled with first pancreatic cancer and then a liver transplant. Cook is described as “one of the best supply managers in the world,” credited with [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged elizabeth murdoch, Independent, iPad, iPhone, iPod, James Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, mediaset, Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi, Simon Kelner, Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs illness, the daily, Tim Cook
By Stephen Foster on December 24, 2010
As these media giants have changed their Man of the Year accolade to Person of the Year (but still pick blokes) maybe we should be looking for a woman (that ever popular activity). Hmm, there’s a tough one. In UK agency land the upper level of AMV/BBDO has long been dominated by gals although new [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged david jones, financial times, francois sarkozy, Irene Rosenfeld, Joel Ewanick, MAA person of the year 2010, Mark Zuckerberg, Maurice Levy, Murdochs, Pablo del Campo, person of the year, Sir Martin Sorrell, Steve Jobs, time
By Stephen Foster on December 10, 2010
There’s a trio and one which would have amused former cinema ad boss Peter Howard-Williams who died earlier this week. Andy Coulson, PM David Cameron’s director of communications, was in court this week to be questioned by former Scottish Socialist Party leader Tommy Sheridan who is conducting his own defence in a perjury case. Sheridan [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, apple itunes, carlton screen advertising, Howard Stern, media icon, Mike Gull, Paul Bushell, pearl & dean, Peter Howard-Williams, rank screen advertising, sirius, Steve Jobs, Tommy Sheridan
By Stephen Foster on December 6, 2010
The Twittersphere has been full of rumours that celebrated US radio and TV shock jock Howard Stern is to sign a three-year $600m deal with Apple’s iTunes. Stern’s contact with the Sirius network is due to run out in a week or so and the great man has been uncharacteristically quiet about what he plans [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged apple itunes, Howard Stern, Rupert Murdoch, sirius, Steve Jobs, the daily
By David O'Reilly on November 18, 2010
It sounds like another triumph for Steve jobs as advertisers sign up in droves to Apple’s iAds mobile advertising platform as it prepares for its European launch, but it will be interesting to see if the punters are just as keen on something that while superficially attractive might ultimately be seen as yet another irritating [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged absolute radio, advertising, apple, iads, iPhone 4, iPod Touch, L'Oreal, Perrier, Renault, Steve Jobs, unilever
By Stephen Foster on October 19, 2010
Not bad for a company once derided for making niche computers. But Apple’s current market capitalisation of around $274bn is now way ahead of Microsoft’s $219bn and closing fast on the long-time biggest company in the world Exxon Mobil at $331bn. It has already overtaken another oil giant PetroChina which was briefly the biggest last [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News | Tagged android, apple, BlackBerry, google, hewlett-packard, IBM, iPad, iPhone, Steve Jobs
By David O'Reilly on October 18, 2010
Great excitement in the papers today at the prospects of Apple overtaking Exxon as the largest public company in America, after its latest quarterly results are announced tonight. Much of this is hysteria since while its market capitalisation may be soaring, Apple is still a comparative minnow in terms of revenues and profits. Yet it’s [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged apple, exxon, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Microsoft, Steve Jobs
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