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		<title><![CDATA[Razorfish Hit by Mini Exodus of Staff]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it just me, or have a lot of people left Razorfish recently? The shop was acquired by Publicis PUB from Microsoft MSFT in August. Since then the exodus has looked like this:    Dec. 7: Marc Lucas, former executive creative director of Razorfish, N.Y., is named the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:42:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publicis' Levy Stokes Fight With WPP's Sorrell Over Failed Prediction From the '90s]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publicis boss Maurice Levy has again lashed out at WPP chief Martin Sorrell. The pair -- who control advertising's biggest agency rivals, such as Saatchi & Saatchi and Ogilvy & Mather, respectively -- have a famously public hatred of each other. by Jim Edwards]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:39:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Earnings: Publicis Groupe Declares Downturn Over, Restates Digital Ambitions]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Many in the media world are still struggling through the slashed budgets and changed business models, but at least for French advertising group Publicis the ad spend downturn is over. In its Q309 earnings release pdf on Tuesday, the company declared that the ad market reached its lowest point...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:31:47 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publicis Groupe's Digital Media Investment Chief Tim Hanlon Signs Off]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ French ad holding company Publicis Groupe is losing its top digital media M&A and investment exec: Tim Hanlon. Hanlon serves as EVP and managing director of VivaKi Ventures, Publicis&#8217; new media VC arm; Mediapost reports that he&#8217;s leaving the company at the end of the month. The news comes...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:09:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publicis Explains $20M Discrepancy in Razorfish Acquisition]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publicis has offered an explanation for why it said Razorfish was profitable on revenues of $380 million when Microsoft later produced numbers showing it was making a loss on revenues of $360 million. The discrepency comes from accounting differences between Publicis and Microsoft, Publicis' investor relations unit tells BNET. by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:39:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publicis Shifts 'Several Million' In Broadcast Ad Spend To Hulu]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Publicis Groupe media agency MediaVest will spending &#8220;several million&#8221; dollars in advertising on Hulu, Adweek reports. Amanda Richman, MediaVest&#8217;s managing director of digital, didn&#8217;t offer any specifics. She tells Adweek that the agency is upping their spending on Hulu significantly, adding that the money is being shifted to the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:33:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Having Lost Out On Razorfish, Dentsu's Eager To Acquire]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Now that it has sunk in that Dentsu&#8217;s $700 million offer to buy Razorfish from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) was soundly trumped by Publicis Groupe&#8217;s $530 million bid, the Japanese ad agency is getting right back on the horse and is letting the world know it&#8217;s ready for an acquisition....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:27:12 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[After Publicis' Acquisition of Razorfish, Might ValueClick Be Next?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publicis' $530 million acquisition of Razorfish raises a question for ValueClick, one of few publicly traded advertising providers: Is it next to be bought? Maybe. But if so, its stock may currently be too overvalued to facilitate a deal. by Jim Edwards]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:35:10 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publicis' David Kenny On Razorfish Buy: Digital Revs Now 25 Percent Of Total Revenues]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By acquiring interactive agency Razorfish from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Publicis Groupe has now attained a goal outlined by CEO Maurice Levy shortly after the Paris-based ad holding company bought Digitas nearly three years ago: 25 percent of its revenues will now be digital. The $530 million deal also satisfies...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:00:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publicis buys Microsoft's Razorfish for USD530m]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Publicis is buying Microsoft's digital marketing arm, Razorfish, for roughly USD530m as part of a five-year search ad agreement. Publicis claims the deal will mean that its digital operations will make up 25% of its annual revenues, hitting an internal target a year ahead of schedule.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:12:04 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publicis spends $530m to land Razorfish]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Publicis, the French marketing and communications business, has beaten rivals including WPP and Dentsu in the race to acquire Razorfish from Microsoft.The deal, which values the digital agency at about $530m, includes a five-year media buying relationship between Publicis and Microsoft.About 55 per cent of the purchase price will...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:33:22 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Could Announce Razorfish Sale By September; Publicis, WPP Play Hard To Get]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It's been a few weeks since Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) execs met with representatives from various ad agencies to feel out interest in who would want to buy its interactive agency, Razorfish and still no obvious deal, just lots of talk with early September as a target. Take the conflicting...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:33:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publicis nears Razorfish acquisition]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Publicis Groupe is closing in on an acquisition of Razorfish, Microsoft's digital advertising agency, and could agree final terms by early next week, according to people familiar with the negotiations.The situation remains fluid, but the French communications company behind Digitas, Leo Burnett and Zenith Optimedia has taken the lead...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publicis Q2: We're Shocked - Shocked! - to Find There's a Recession Going On!]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publicis' Q2 2009 numbers show that the agency network, just like the French police chief in Casablanca, is amazed to discover an "unexpectedly steep" recession in its business. by Jim Edwards]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publicis' Levy: My Clients Only Want "a Couple of Words on a Search Engine Page"]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an address to the FIPP World Magazine Congress in London, Publicis CEO Maurice Levy complained that he is increasingly faced with clients wanting only "a couple of words on a search engine page", rather than an expensive TV and print campaign, The Guardian reports. by Jim Edwards]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news that General Motors and Chrysler are to cut or scale back several automobile brands will fall most heavily on Omnicom and its BBDO and PHD units.    Publicis's Leo Burnett and its media group will also suffer. Coming out of the fallout somewhat less lethally injured...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publicis CEO Levy "Loves" Recession; Says It "Excites" Him]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publicis chief Maurice Levy says he loves the recession because it "excites" him, a statement that will have his current and former employees spluttering into their coffee this morning. Levy told Ad Age, in answer to a question about the downturn:  It doesn't make me nervous; the reality is...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publicis is to shutter Honeyshed, its online shopping experiment via agency Droga5, Adweek reports. Ten employees are to be laid off.      The move was completely predictable, as everyone who watched Honeyshed -- an online video site that hoped to make home-shopping trendy and ironic --...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publicis's Levy Calls WPP's Sorrell a "Little Englishman Trying to Stir Things Up"]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publicis boss Maurice Levy is not backing down in his ongoing spat with WPP chief Martin Sorrell. This is what he said in an interview with the FT regarding Sorrell's suggestion that Publicis should take over Interpublic:   Such a deal was the "fantasy of a little Englishman trying...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Publicis's Levy Promises No Job Cuts]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publicis CEO Maurice Levy made this astonishing assertion in a story in the UK's Daily Telegraph:  Across 45,000 staff at agencies from Leo    Burnett, Fallon and Saatchi to media buyers ZenithOptimedia and Starcom, he    does not forsee job cuts.  That's a bold...]]></description>
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