Kara Swisher in News on May 9 at 4:41 pm PT
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.
News Byte
Mike Isaac in Social on May 2 at 9:07 am PT
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.
News Byte
Kara Swisher in News on March 8 at 11:18 am PT
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!
Kara Swisher in News on March 6 at 11:46 am PT
Breaking up is hard to do, especially at start-ups.
Kara Swisher in News on October 27, 2011 at 12:19 am PT
Top AOL dude abandons ship to head to hot music start-up.
Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 9:43 am PT
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.
Kara Swisher in News on March 2, 2011 at 4:10 pm PT
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.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 16, 2011 at 9:35 am PT
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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Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on January 14, 2011 at 11:00 am PT
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.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 12, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
Alison “Ali” Rosenthal, a veteran of the Facebook business development team, will leave the company at the end of this week, she told NetworkEffect.
