WPP's Sir Martin Sorrell: Microsoft and Yahoo, Please, Please Merge - Henry Blodget

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WPP's Sir Martin Sorrell: Microsoft and Yahoo, Please, Please Merge
May 09, 2008 04:00 PM UTC

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Via Silicon Alley Insider:

The king of marketing services, WPP's Sir Martin Sorrell, pleads with Steve Ballmer and Jerry Yang to somehow work out a deal. Reuters:

The advertising industry lost a
potential balancing influence in the Web search market when
deal talks between Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo
(YHOO) broke down, the chief of ad services group WPP (WPP) said on Friday. "It was a shame ... that those negotiations failed. Maybe
they'll come back again," WPP CEO Martin Sorrell said in an
interview [on CNBC].

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