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5 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘MSN’

Now What?

By Denis Campbell • Jul 20th, 2008 • Category: Business
(Reprise article)
The fish at the end of the Pixar film “Finding Nemo” bob on the surface of Sydney Harbour in plastic bags unable to break through to the big ocean below them. The executive teams at Microsoft and Yahoo! seem in a similar situation and face much bigger hurdles whether or not they eventually merge.
Carl [...]


Sir Martin’s Midas Touch Dulling or Media Laziness?

By Denis Campbell • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Business
Which is the real headline?
TNS rejected WPP’s £1 billion pound buyout offer. What’s astounding is if one Googles TNS and WPP, there are 11-story links from: Reuters, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Times, MSN, E-Financial news, Yahoo! and Tiscali on the first search page.
All of them say the exact same thing regurgitating from the exact [...]