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		<title><![CDATA[Industry Moves: Microsoft Loses Three More Former aQuantive Executives]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The exit of former aQuantive executives from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) continues. Microsoft tells us that in addition to former Atlas president Karl Siebrecht, three other general managers with aQuantive roots also announced they were leaving the company last week. They are: Brian Handly, a GM of publisher solutions and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:40:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Industry Moves: Microsoft's Siebrecht Joins AdReady As President]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Karl Siebrecht, who was president of Atlas until parent company aQuantive was purchased by Microsoft, is leaving Microsoft to join AdReady as the self service display advertising startup&#8217;s president, according to several reports. Kara Swisher first reported the news and Seattle area tech site TechFlash confirms it, with AdReady...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:50:54 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brian McAndrews on Holding Companies' 'People' Problem]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- There are few executives who rode 2007's digital-media acquisition spree more skillfully than Brian McAndrews, who as CEO of aQuantive sold the firm to Microsoft for $6 billion. He's known as a prescient executive: During the decade leading up to the sale, Mr. McAndrews amassed a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:19:40 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Industry Moves: Former aQuantive CEO McAndrews Joins VC House Madrona]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ After being passed up to succeed Kevin Johnson as Microsoft's digital head, Brian McAndrews is turning to venture capital. The former aQuantive CEO, who joined Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) when it acquired the ad group in 2007, is joining Seattle's Madrona Venture Group as managing director.McAndrews led aQuantive for eight...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:46:26 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Madrona taps former aQuantive CEO McAndrews as new partner]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former aQuantive CEO Brian McAndrews has worked in packaged goods, television and, most recently, online advertising.  Now, the 50-year-old executive plans to draw on those experiences -- as well as his board positions at startup companies -- to give the venture capital business a try.Madrona Venture Group today plans to announce that McAndrews is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:34:16 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft's Razorfish Deal Shows Strategic Shift]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's sale of Razorfish, its digital marketing agency, to Publicis Groupe is yet another sign that Redmond is seeking to refocus its mission around its core properties, such as Windows 7 and Office 2010. Microsoft originally purchased Razorfish as part of a $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive in 2007, when...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:08:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft sheds 2,000-employee ad agency in $530 million deal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rumors of the past few weeks were true: Microsoft has sold Razorfish — the digital ad agency it purchased when it bought its parent company aQuantive in 2007 — to Publicis Groupe for $530 million. For those keeping track of employee-headcount totals at home, that means Microsoft is shedding...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:20:40 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Unloads Razorfish To The French For $530 Million]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than two years after buying advertising network aQuantive for $6 billion, Microsoft finally unloaded the digital advertising agency that came with that deal. It sold Razorfish to French advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe for $530 million in a combination stock-and-cash transaction. The price was 1.4 times Razorfish's 2008 sales of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:34:46 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publicis to Buy Microsoft Ad Agency Razorfish]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS, Aug 9 (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Publicis struck a $530 million deal with Microsoft to buy the Razorfish ad agency and boost its position in digital communications, the world's third-largest communications group said on Sunday. Publicis will issue 6.5 million treasury shares to the software giant, worth 162 million euros ($232.6...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft to Sell Razorfish to Publicis for $530M]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[| The Publicis Group said today it struck a deal to acquire digital marketing agency Razorfish from Microsoft for $530 million. "When we complete this transaction, approximately a quarter of our annual revenues will come from digital communications, and we believe we have more capacity to grow with new clients,"...]]></description>
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