Countdown to Dive Into Mobile (Plus Some Livestreaming for Those Who Can’t Make It IRL)

D: Dive Into Mobile kicks off in less than one week, and we at team #dmobile (hashtag alert!) are ready to go.
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Dive Into Mobile: State Department’s Cheryl Mills and Pandora’s Joe Kennedy Added as Speakers

With the final speakers in place, the mobile-focused conference gets ready to go.
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More Dive Into Mobile Speakers: Twitter’s Stanton, MLB.com’s Bowman and Lady Gaga’s Manager Carter

Katie Jacobs Stanton of Twitter, Troy Carter of Atom Factory, and Bob Bowman of Major League Baseball Advanced Media join the Dive Into Mobile lineup.
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Yahoo Conducting a Search for a COO as No. 2 to Mayer

Wanted: High-level worker bee. Turnaround experience a must.
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Exclusive: Yahoo’s Longtime HR Head David Windley Out

Wanted: New talent-finding exec. Requirements: Never worked at Yahoo.
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Exclusive: Yahoo’s Mayer Aiming for Twitter’s Stanton for Big Media Role

Can the new CEO entice her old employee (and former Yahoo Finance kingpin) to come join her in remaking the troubled Silicon Valley Internet giant?
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Ex-Googlers Flock 35 Miles North to Twitter

A significant portion of Twitter employees — something like 13 percent — used to work at Google.
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Is the State Department's Tweeter-in-Chief Headed to Google?

Jared Cohen, who has gained fame as the State Department’s social networking phenom and the youngest member of its policy planning staff, is considering taking a job at Google in a strategic policy role, said several sources close to the situation. Cohen has been in discussions with Google recently about going there, those sources said, although it is not a done deal. In other words, the revolving door between D.C. and Silicon Valley keeps on turning, especially Googlers.

Another Googler Joins the Obama Administration–Now We've Got a Foursome!

It will be like they never left the Googleplex in Silicon Valley if this Washington, D.C., invasion of execs from the search giant keeps up. The fourth new geek in town is Sumit Agarwal, who was head of Google’s mobile product management and has become the deputy assistant secretary of defense for outreach and social media in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense. It’s interesting to see so many key appointments in the tech arena going to one company, especially one so immersed now in national and international policy issues.

Obama Gets a Google Vet–But Not for CTO

Barack Obama has yet to announce who his chief technology officer will be. But he has hired a Silicon Valley exec for another role: Google product manager Katie Jacobs Stanton will be the new President’s “director of citizen participation,” starting in March, sources tell me.