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Local deal to create digital marketing giant

French firm to acquire Hub's Digitas for $1.3b

By Robert Weisman
Globe Staff / December 21, 2006

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Digitas Inc. , a Boston marketing firm that hitched its future to the rise of Internet media, yesterday said it has agreed to be acquired by the French advertising giant Publicis Groupe in a $1.3 billion cash deal that will create the world's largest digital marketing firm. (Full article: 925 words)

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