Tag Archives: Steve Ballmer

Microsoft, one of the world’s biggest advertisers with a spend comfortably ahead of $1bn, is about to review everything, according to a report in Ad Age. And I’m sure the people ‘familiar with the matter,’ as they say these days, ...

Much scratching of heads about Microsoft’s decision to fork out $7.2bn for Nokia’s phones business – it’s an obvious thing to do but they had that business already as the only profitable phone that Nokia is selling is the new ...

***Omnicom and Interpublic have followed Publicis Groupe into the lists with their half-year numbers: Interpublic (given its legacy issues) seems OK, Omnicom growing by about two per cent may be deemed slightly worrying. Omnicom may be falling behind in the ...

Windows 8, coming just two years after its predecessor, is the biggest bet that Microsoft has ever made. A decade ago Microsoft had the tech market signed up; everybody bought its ever more frequent upgrades for even more money even ...

Back in 2008 Microsoft bid $33 a share for Yahoo (about twice its current worth) but the bid fell fell through because (a) Yahoo founder Jerry Yang held out for even more money or (b) Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (pictured) ...

The volume of ad impressions bought by FMCG band owners (and others including cars and drinks) rose 117 per cent between the second and third quarters of 2011. This led to a 33.6 per cent rise in cost per thousand ...

Strange to say, he probably does when you consider that his basic pay (£1m) hasn’t risen since 2007 and WPP, the company he founded and runs, has ridden out the volatile past few years pretty capably. WPP’s board level remuneration ...

It’s not signed as we write but Microsoft is likely to agree to pay £8bn today to buy loss-making phone and video company Skype (the price includes nearly $700m of debt). Oddly enough $8bn is roughly the amount Microsoft is ...

And it seems to be CEO Steve Ballmer (not a man to tangle with) who’s the crossest of the lot, threatening to sue Facebook and Carolyn Everson for all sorts of things. According to CNET Microsoft wants to prevent Everson ...