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Nintendo of America Appoints New Head of Sales and Marketing

Nintendo of America has appointed Soctt Moffitt to the position of EVP of sales and marketing. Effective immediately, Moffitt will work from Nintendo’s office in Redwood City, Calif., and report to Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. Previously, Moffitt was SVP and general manager for Henkel Consumer Goods’ personal care division, where he oversaw North American operations for brands such as Dial, Right Guard, Tone and Pure & Natural. Moffitt replaces Cammie Dunaway, who left the company more than a year ago.

The Attack On the Yahoo Vice Presidents: More Exec Departures

It’s starting to feel like a murder mystery over at Yahoo these days, as one vice president after another drops off the senior management rolls at the Internet giant. Next to go are VP of Media Engineering Bharath Kadaba and the higher profile Rachel Glaser, a senior vice president of operations finance. (Both are pictured [...]

Day 99: The (Swisher) Boys Are Back and There's Going to Be Trouble–If Mom Doesn't Get Lunch With Jerry Yang

Can you believe it? DAY 99! Yes, this is the day before the last full day of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s 100-day No-Sacred-Cows Vision Quest, which BoomTown has been keeping relentless track of, ever since he told investors in the summer that he was undertaking a top-to-bottom look at his troubled company and that all holy bovines had better watch out. So far though, in terms of truly dramatic change, it’s Cows: 99, Yang: 0.

Day 97: Three Days Before Potential Cow Tragedy

We have almost nothing to report today on Yahoo, except to point out that there are only three more days until the official end of CEO Jerry Yang’s 100-day No-Sacred-Cows Vision Quest. While we expect the day to pass quietly at Yahoo’s Sunnyvale campus, BoomTown will mark the moment while on the Big Island of [...]

Marketing Chief Leaving Yahoo

Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Customer Experience Division Cammie Dunaway will be leaving Yahoo on November 2. Yahoo officials confirmed the departure to me and said Dunaway was seeking “new opportunities.”