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Yahoo Search Exec Chang Lands at Mobile Ad Start-Up

in Mobile on July 25, 2011 at 10:01 am PT

Longtime Yahoo search veteran Chi-Chao Chang, who left the Internet giant recently, has landed at xAD, a San Francisco-based mobile local search advertising network. He’ll be its president of product and technology and said, in an interview, he made the move to focus on an emerging digital arena. Chang, a key exec in Yahoo’s troubled search alliance with Microsoft, was VP and GM of the global search business at Yahoo and had been at the company since 1999.

Digital Musical Chairs at MySpace and FIM Still Going–Exec Departures and More…

in News on July 10, 2009 at 5:23 am PT

As BoomTown previously reported, there have been a lot of exec departures and shifts at Fox Interactive Media and its MySpace unit, which seem to be continuing. Especially departures, it seems, as the massive restructuring of the digital units of News Corp. keeps shaking out. Top engineer Max Engel, who ran the social networking site’s open initiatives, for example, is leaving to join the new stealth start-up being helmed by ex-MySpace employees, including former COO Amit Kapur. And there are a lot of others too.
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