WPP buys UK marketing firm for £15m
09 Jul 2001 | by Claire Billings
LONDON - WPP Group has bought UK-based The Marketing 15m.
LONDON - AOL Time Warner chief executive Gerald Levin has said that the media giant is to focus on an international strategy and its first priority will begin with European expansion.
LONDON - WPP Group has bought UK-based The Marketing 15m.
LONDON - The BBC has had two internet domain names related to its flagship pop programme Top of the Pops returned to it after a cybersquatter took control of them four years ago.
LONDON - Online auctioneer eBay.com is considering launching a website in China, according to the company's chief executive Meg Whitman.
LONDON - Nick Denton, the founder of information service Moreover.com, has stepped down as chief executive of the company.
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LONDON - EMI and Virgin have teamed up to start selling digital versions of their music over the internet.
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LONDON - Food and health campaign group Sustain has called on the government to ban "junk food" advertising targeted at children.
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