RICHARD VAUX, director of Cobalt Blue, a communications consultancy, was shocked by a letter from Barclays, his bank, in late September.
Blue State Digital, the communications firm responsible for coordinating President Barack Obama's online fundraising and social networking campaigns in the 2008 election, has been acquired by advertising giant WPP.
Shares of HP were up $2.02, or 4.6%, to $46.29 to lead the blue-chips, but Verizon Communications was just behind it, up 91 cents, or 2.4%, to $39.02, after receiving Mexican regulatory approval to provide services in the country.
"We were fighting to not use the blue goose," said Brent Coburn, the communications director for the Obama campaign.
"We're happy to serve the red and blue states," Christin Baker, Ford Motor's communications director in Washington, said in an interview.
Verizon Communications led the blue chips after subsidiary Verizon Wireless, a joint-venture with England's Vodafone, agreed to acquire Alltel for $28.1 billion.
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Talk of privatisation does not go down well with voters, but she thinks some freight business, an internal communications firm and the Blue Train (a luxury tourist service) could be sold.
"We call it the Amtrak option, as opposed to the Jet Blue option," said Cathy Renna, a communications consultant to gay and lesbian organizations.
Thick blue bundles of secure fiber-optic communications lines, attached with duct tape to the hotel carpets, snake through the corridors.
