Which advertising agencies came up tops in 2010?
Find out which advertising agencies (listed by network/holding company) raked in the highest revenues (US$ Millions) in 2010 according to AdAge Data Centre:
1. WPP, $13,600
2. Omnicom Group, $11,720
3. Publicis Groupe, $6,290
When Takashi Kawamura won a landslide re-election victory as the mayor of Nayoya on February 6th – he put on a pair of black rubber boots while supporters poured buckets of cold water over his head.
Mr Kawamura then declared a “kind of tea party” had been born in Nagoya, one of Japan’s largest industrial cities.
Alongside political ally Hideki Omura who’d won governship of surrounding Aichi prefecture (home of Toyota) – Mr Omura declared “This is a citizen revolution”.
Facebook leads the way, although there are no surprises there. Once dominating Yahoo has now slipped into 3rd place and the trend shows no sign, or reason to reverse.
At the bottom of the top five was AOL.
See the chart on Business Insider.
Google’s strong fourth-quarter earnings proved that it is now firmly ensconced in e-commerce, and also showed that,
with its Android operating system and related apps, it is smoothly transitioning to the mobile world.
Google benefited from the best online holiday shopping season since 2006, as Web users increasingly began their shopping sprees at the search engine.
“Whenever e-commerce improves, we see more advertisers competing for the same keywords, and that means more revenue for Google,”
Countries in Europe are tightening their budgets and imposing austerity measures.
But Louis Gallois, who runs the largest European aerospace and military contractor, is not worried.
He is banking on emerging markets like China to help fill in any of the gaps left by the Continent’s tighter spending.
Gallois, the chief executive of European Aeronautic Defense and Space, the parent company of Airbus, said
26 January 2011.
Last spring, an executive from a Chinese telecommunications equipment company made an intriguing job offer to a Silicon Valley software engineer.
The Chinese company, Huawei Technologies, wanted to get into the booming market for Internet-based computing,
and it had just moved its United States research headquarters here to capture some of the best local talent.
“How many engineers would you like for your team? Several hundred? That’s not a problem,”
In China and Taiwan, regulators are imposing fresh restrictions on stock market investments by foreigners.
In Brazil, officials have twice raised taxes on foreign investors.
Even in South Korea, pressure is building on the government to take similar steps.
An increasing number of emerging markets powers have either imposed curbs or are in the process of doing so
to slow the torrent of hot money into their markets.
Thanks to the Federal Reserve’s ZIRP – or Zero Interest Rate Policy –
too-big-to-fail banks and private equity firms can,
in the words of Dire Straits, literally get money for nothing.
The politically-connected Carlyle Group, for example, has gobbled up companies.
Last fall, for example, Carlyle announced a $2.6 billion deal for Syniverse Technologies, a voice and data services provider for telecommunications companies.
Little more than a week after Goldman Sachs offered its most prized clients a chance to invest in Facebook,
the firm rescinded the opportunity from clients in the United States.
