Is There A Company That Yahoo! Isn’t Merging With?
First Microsoft approached Yahoo! about a merger/take-over. Then Google gave the guys at Yahoo! a call to see if maybe they could hook up.
And whilst Information Week thought that Nokia would be the perfect partner for Yahoo! lots of other people think that they should consider getting together with AOL. But of course that was […]
‘Anonymous’ Vs Scientology: Strange Goings On In London
Guess it’s not a great idea to annoy a bunch of hackers then.
Edit: Note I use the term ‘hacker’ in this sense, not the Hollywood sense.
It all started with this. If you’re wondering what the masks are all about, they are from V For Vendetta
Photos by me, Sunday, outisde the Chruch Of Scientology, Tottenham […]
Will Microsoft–Yahoo! Produce An Effective Search Marketing Platform?
Yahoo! Search Marketing joining forces with Microsoft AdCenter sounds like a good idea for Microsoft in theory, but will it work? Microsoft would benefit from boosting its market share of search, and Yahoo’s dominant position in the display ads market will be a major asset to the company if the deal goes ahead. But it […]
Midas Losing Its Touch?
I read in one of the free London evening papers yesterday that Virgin Radio DJs JK & Joel are hoping to buy The Midas Touch pub in Golden Square. Apparently it risks going out of business and the pair are asking their fans to donate money to allow them to buy it. Why is this […]
Bringing A TV Show Back From The Dead: This Is Nuts!
Excuse the particularly bad pun in the title of this post but in celebration of the new series of Jericho starting in just over a week’s time I thought it would be good to remind the UK audience exactly what happened to get CBS (an American TV network) to bring the show back on air.
First […]
Lost and QR Codes: Cult PR
Consider the above image. It’s an ad that we ran in the Sun today. Chances are there’s a technocrat journalist out there who’s been keeping an eye peeled for QR codes (see here, here and here for our previous posts about them) and is also a Lost fan. Hopefully, a tool intended to generate buzz […]
MSN Buying Yahoo?
This isn’t really post, just a note as this news could have a potentially huge impact on the whole internet economy.
Microsoft has made a bid to buy Yahoo!, valuing Yahoo! at $45 billion (which makes a $15 billion valuation for Facebook look even more far-fetched). It may well be that this is coming off of […]
Mobile Madness In Shanghai
[FX: Nokia ringtone]
Man with phone: “HELLO? YES, I’M ON THE TRAIN.”
You get the picture. Loud bloke talking on his mobile. Hard stares from surrounding passengers. Aren’t mobile phones annoying.
This sense of mobile phone etiquette extends to our business life too of course. In London, a mobile phone ringing mid-meeting is normally the cue for a […]
