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

May 9, 2008

Silicon Alley Insider / Henry Blodget

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 [...]