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• March 19, 2008
• by Latitude

• Microsoft
• Social media
• Technology
• Yahoo

Yesterday in Silicon Valley, I had a great lunch with one of the most respected venture capital guys on the planet, Jeff Nolan. (I have never heard anyone speak of Jeff without less than effusive praise, something I cannot say about any other VC round these parts!) After years as an innovator in the enterprise [...]

• March 18, 2008
• by Simon Whittick

• In The Press

Formed in 2001, Latitude achieved turnover of £100,000 in itsfirst year and, by 2006, that figure had risen to £31m.

McCarthy said he anticipated its 2007 revenues would be higher than its 2006 results.

“Latitude is making dramatic progress with more than 100 staff now, and has not only seen a record year of expansion last year, [...]

• March 11, 2008
• by Latitude

• Microsoft
• Yahoo

I blogged almost one month go about the Rupert Murdoch angle of the Microsoft/Yahoo acquisition, and how he just might make a play for Yahoo himself.

While it may be true (we don’t know yet, but whispers say it is) that Murdoch’s News Corp has submitted a formal bid to Yahoo, word from the horses’s mouth [...]

• March 7, 2008
• by Simon Whittick

• In The Press

Martin Bowley began the opening presentation by outlining some of the ‘wrong thoughts’ and assumptions made about mobile marketing. He came from an old media world trying to make sense of a new media world. He was the former CEO of Carlton TV and was pushed out a couple of years ago after the merger [...]

• March 7, 2008
• by Latitude

• Digital marketing

Well, that last one may be up for some debate, but the first two are clear. After CEO Jim Safka made the announcement that Ask was shifting to a woman-focused site, the search also-ran today tried to deny their own previous PR. Here’s what went down, and why the future doesn’t now seem so rosy [...]

• March 5, 2008
• by Latitude

• Google
• Microsoft
• Yahoo

Also-ran search engine Ask has seen some changes over recent years, including a $2.3 billion acquisition by Barry Diller and the name change from Ask Jeeves (which necessitated the loss of corporate mascot Jeeves the butler). But as far as changes go, this is a biggie.

• February 29, 2008
• by Latitude

• Google
• Microsoft
• Yahoo

The latest rumour concerning Microsoft’s bid to buy Yahoo is that Google is thinking of nabbing almost 20 per cent of Yahoo’s stock for itself. That’s as good a place as any to start with a closer look at some of the more interesting acquisition-related news of the last two days.

• February 25, 2008
• by Latitude

• Google
• Microsoft
• Online Sales
• Yahoo

One blog post, the three usual suspects, and a shedload of cheering stats. What a way to start the week…