Stern Named Head of New Strategery Role at Yahoo

The man who has been the Swiss Army Knife of Yahoo will be key strategy guy for Thompson, who clearly wants to do a lot of strategizing.
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Foursquare Biz Dev Tristan Walker Checks Out, Heads to Andreessen Horowitz

Foursquare employee Tristan Walker announced on Wednesday that he’ll be leaving the social check-in start-up for a gig at Andreessen Horowitz, where his new title will be Entrepreneur in Residence. Walker leaves Foursquare after two-and-a-half years as VP of Business Development, and was one of the company’s earliest employees.

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Yahoo Loses Another Exec (I Know, Déjà Vu!)

These kinds of exec departures are definitely going to get to be more regular as Yahoo’s restructuring looms, so here is today’s adieu: Luis Salazar, VP of global product marketing and business development. He’s well-regarded at the company, and came last year as part of the former Microsoft influx under Chief Product Officer Blake Irving, as did also-departing SVP of product management Bill Shaughnessy. Bye, Luis!

Checking In With the Foursquare Founder Parting: More “Tense” (Of Course)

Breaking up is hard to do, especially at start-ups.
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AOL’s Biz Dev SVP and Strategy Chief Heads to Spotify

Top AOL dude abandons ship to head to hot music start-up.
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Awkward! As Microsoft Marketing Event Opens, Its Longtime Marketing Head Announces Surprise Retirement

Timing is everything and, sometimes, very awkward. Today at its Redmond, Wash., campus, Microsoft is hosting a splashy online “marketing leadership summit” titled “Imagine 2011″–a gathering of top marketing execs from across the globe, most of whom are advertising clients of its online division. Also today: Its longtime head of global marketing, Mich Mathews, announced her departure–to the surprise of many Microsoft execs here, in fact–via a report in Ad Age.

Exclusive: Microsoft Mulls Legally Poking Facebook Over Ad Talent Raid

Microsoft–furious over a recent talent grab of its top advertising exec by Facebook–has been considering a wide range of options, including legal action to block the move, according to sources close to the situation. While it might not come to that, tensions between the two companies, who have partnered closely in the past, are running high over the hiring of Carolyn Everson. She had been head of global ad sales at Microsoft and has been hired to be VP of global sales at Facebook.

Sony Ericsson Aims to Play Its Way Back Into Android Smartphone Lead

In an interview, Sony Ericsson’s chief technology officer tells Mobilized how the company aims to capture the lead in the Android market through quick adoption of new versions and by tapping the technology strengths of its parent companies.

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Early Adopter: Pothole-Reporting App SeeClickFix Raises $1.5 Million to Help You Be a Squeakier Wheel

It’s a fine line between keeping your potholes filled and walls graffiti free and being a civic tattletale. Civic nuisance reporting app SeeClickFix lets you toe the line, and just got another $1.5 million from O’Reilly AlphaTech and Omidyar to help users keep at it.

Longtime Facebook Biz Dev Leader Ali Rosenthal to Depart

Alison “Ali” Rosenthal, a veteran of the Facebook business development team, will leave the company at the end of this week, she told NetworkEffect.