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Xconomy (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Seattle-based Big Fish Games announced today it has hired Michael Vernon as chief financial officer and Ian Hurlock-Jones as chief technology officer. Vernon is a veteran of Seattle-area firms aQuantive and Zumobi, while Hurlock-Jones comes from Fox Interactive Media and Buy.com. Big Fish, a leading developer and distributor of casual games, announced it was opening [...]
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Advertising Age - Digital (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- As Razorfish is absorbed into Publicis Groupe, two top execs won't be coming along for the ride. Razorfish Chief Strategy Officer Jeff Lanctot and Managing Director Jim Watson, two 10-year veterans of the digital shop, are leaving for Microsoft, which acquired Razorfish as part of the aQuantive deal in 2007.
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TechFlash (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
The aQuantive brain drain continues. Two years after Microsoft gobbled up the Seattle online advertising powerhouse for $6 billion, top executives from the company continue to find employment elsewhere.
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Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Flight Simulator development/developers possibly reborn; aQuantive executive joins AdReady while Razorfish is sold; Microsoft-loaded Juniper serves Windows
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AdReady, a pioneering technology company that makes online display advertising accessible to advertisers of any size, today announced Karl Siebrecht has been named President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). In these roles, Siebrecht will set and execute strategies related to the growth and leadership of all AdReady product lines. He was previously President of Atlas, an...
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TechFlash (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Employees at Razorfish -- the digital media agency that Microsoft is selling off to Publicis Groupe for $530 million -- will lose 75 percent of their unvested stock options once the deal goes through. AdAge reports that employees of the Seattle-based agency -- which was consumed by Microsoft as part of the $6 billion aQuantive deal -- will get 25 percent of their options and they must stay with the...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Online ad vet Jeff Green has left his post as COO of Microsoft’s AdECN ad exchange, MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka reports . Green’s responsibilities will be handled by Jed Nahum, who currently serves as business integration director for adECN at Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ), and David Coburn, AdECN’s product manager. In a memo to the staff, Green didn’t offer any reasons for his...
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How Much Does An Iphone Cost (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
Microsoft is reportedly looking to sell its online advertising agency Razorfish just two years after acquiring it as part of a $6bn deal for parent company aQuantive Inc. According to a report in the Financial Times, Microsoft has brought in the investment bank Morgan Stanley to seek out a potential buyer for the agency, which according to predictions should sell for somewhere between $600 million...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
E-commerce and direct marketing analytics tech provider Lucid Commerce has raised $1.9 million worth of a planned $4 million round, according to an SEC filing . U.K.-based VC firm Adinvest participated in the round, along with previous backer OVP Venture Partners, per TechFlash . OVP led the startup’s $2.5 million first round back in 2008. Seattle-based Lucid Commerce’s products include...
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Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
Xbox suffers another major blow and "aQuantive exodus" affects Microsoft's prospects online
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TechFlash (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
The aQuantive exodus from Microsoft continues. Just yesterday, we reported that Karl Siebrecht -- the former president of aQuantive's Atlas unit -- planned to leave Microsoft to join Seattle online advertising startup AdReady. Now, we've received word that three other former aQuantive execs who held general manager titles at the software giant -- Aaron Easterly, Brian Handly and Brent Turner -- also...
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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
Intuit (INTU) is buying personal-finance site Mint.com for $170 million. This represents a fairly rich acquisition price relative to current financial performance: If our projections of about $10 million in revenue this year are accurate, that would be a 17-times multiple of revenue. With about 1.2 million unique visitors currently coming to the site every, Intuit would be paying about $140 per user....
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
Karl Siebrecht, who was president of Atlas until parent company aQuantive was purchased by Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ), is leaving Microsoft to join AdReady as the display advertising startup’s president. Kara Swisher first reported the news and Seattle area tech site TechFlash confirms it , with AdReady CEO Aaron Finn saying the hiring is indicative of the startup’s “progress.”...
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BoomTown (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Apparently, not everyone leaves Yahoo to join Microsoft. On Friday, sources said, it was announced internally at Microsoft that Karl Siebrecht, the former President of Atlas at aQuantive, is joining AdReady at the end of the month as President and COO. AdReady, based in Seattle, bills itself as an "advertising technology company focused on making online display advertising accessible and effective...
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Xconomy (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Last month, we broke the story of Marketfish, the Seattle-based online marketing startup that has raised an undisclosed sum of money from prominent local investors, including the Alliance of Angels. Today, Marketfish launched a beta version of its new online platform, which helps marketing agencies and businesses find and rent direct mail and e-mail lists [...]
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