Maneesh Dhir

Weekend Update, 2.28.09

Beth Callaghan in News on February 28, 2009 at 10:50 pm PT

Much ado about the Amazon Kindle 2.0 this week: After its official unveiling on Feb. 9, the e-book reader started shipping on Monday, and actually managed to grab much–but not all–of the hype that’s surrounded Twitter of late. The device has been met with much acclaim, though it’s by no means unanimous.

AOL Ad Head Greg Coleman Reorgs Too! (It's Spreading Like the Flu at Web Firms Today)

Kara Swisher in News on February 26, 2009 at 4:58 pm PT

Another Web company, another management restructuring! Yahoo reorg fever struck AOL today too, as its advertising head, Greg Coleman (pictured here), moved the exec chairs around his domain at AOL’s Platform-A unit. Coleman–who actually once was Yahoo’s sales head before taking the new gig at the Time Warner online unit earlier this month–is replacing some execs and elevating others. You know the drill!

AOL International Head Out: Rejiggering Commences!

Kara Swisher in News on February 26, 2009 at 2:44 am PT

Yahoo’s not the only place BoomTown gets internal memos from! Here’s two corporate missive about big changes in AOL’s international–such that it is–unit, as the head–Maneesh Dhir (pictured here)–moves on. The longtime staffer at the Time Warner unit will “return to his entrepreneurial roots,” according to a memo from AOL CEO Randy Falco below.