Aug 10

• As rumored, Publicis buys Razorfish, the advertising arm of Atlas, from Microsoft for $530M in auctioned treasury shares. This is a good move and a value buy. It also makes the French agency a much larger player in the digital advertising space. Publicis can expand its digital advertising and generate up to 25% of its sales in this area. Razorfish can once again be an agency that supports all types of digital clients.
• This weekend was a great training weekend for MS Waves to Wine. I am keeping a riding blog/log on my personal fundraising page. Lots of hills yesterday. I really enjoyed the ride. We took lots of good breaks to combat the 1400ft climb!
• Looks like Gietner is also feeling the housing slump. The trickle-up effect spares no one, as John Stewart shows us on the video clip.