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New Yahoo Chief of Staff Comes In, While Previous One Goes to Facebook

in News on April 15 at 1:45 am PT

New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has selected Marta Nichols, who was the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s VP of investor relations, as his new chief of staff. Interestingly, Joel Jones, the chief of staff under Thompson’s predecessor, has moved to Facebook. After CEO Carol Bartz was ousted in the fall, Jones moved to a job as VP of Americas Ad Marketplaces at Yahoo. He’ll be part of the business operations team focused on the ads business at the social networking giant.

National Broadband Plan Guru Blair Levin Speaks! (Plus the Press Release and Exec Summary)

in News on March 19, 2010 at 5:34 am PT

While trolling around Washington, D.C., this week, BoomTown dropped in on Blair Levin, the executive director of the National Broadband Plan, the opus just released by the Federal Communications Commission. Aimed primarily at boosting the proliferation of high-speed access across the United States, the plan has been shepherded by the telecommunications analyst and former FCC staffer.

One Last Yahoo Reorg Missive: Bartz Tells Employees What She Already Said. Again.

in News on February 26, 2009 at 4:00 pm PT

Goodness gracious, make it stop! You must know by now how much BoomTown loves internal Yahoo memos. But this is getting ridiculous. It’s been like a flash flood after a long drought at Sunnyvale HQ today, as Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz turns on the firehose of a whole lot of communicating. “I know you guys have reorg fatigue,” wrote Bartz in the latest email to employees about the management reorganization finally announced this morning. Also memo fatigue at All Things Digital HQ, if you can believe it.
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Cue Anti-Ullyot Facebook Groups in 3 … 2 … 1

in News on October 1, 2008 at 6:52 am PT

“Ted has extremely strong connections with the Republican party, and we think that’s a good thing.” That’s what Elliot Schrage, Facebook’s vice president of communications and public policy, had to say about Ted Ullyot, who joins the company as its vice president and general counsel this month.