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Yahoo Mobile Head David Ko Takes Over Audience Job Too (But Mobile Product Development Moves Under Balogh)

Kara Swisher in News on November 30, 2009 at 12:13 am PT

David Ko, head of Yahoo’s mobile division, has added the Internet giant’s vast media properties in the U.S. to his portfolio, according to several sources. With purview over programming and more for the main Yahoo media properties, such as News and Finance, he will now control a vast swath of its consumer-facing products. But, in a related move, product development for mobile has moved from under Ko to CTO and EVP of Products Ari Balogh.

Microsoft's Man in Silicon Valley, Dan'l Lewin, Speaks!

Kara Swisher in News on March 12, 2009 at 10:07 am PT

A few weeks ago, BoomTown had lunch at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View with Dan’l Lewin, the software giant’s corporate VP for strategic and emerging business development. In other words, Microsoft’s friendly face in the Valley, in charge of its operations there, which has about 2,000 employees. Most of them work for other Microsoft divisions, leaving Lewin primarily responsible for the company’s relationships with start-ups, venture capitalists and industry partners. In other words, hoping that Google now seems scarier than Microsoft used to be. Here’s a video interview with him about all that and more.