Matt Furman

Marketers Are Never Gonna Dance Again, Thanks to Google

Andrew LaVallee and Jessica Vascellaro, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 12, 2009 at 2:11 pm PT

Some people go to conferences for the networking, others go for the keynote session and still others, apparently, go for the dancing. Not this year. One of the highlights of the annual Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, Calif., has been Google’s party, known as “Google Dance,” at its Mountain View headquarters. The search giant canceled it this year, however, citing cost-cutting efforts.

Google Opts to Reshuffle its Sales Structure

Jessica E. Vascellaro, Technology Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 21, 2009 at 4:37 am PT

Google’s new global operations and sales boss Nikesh Arora has started shuffling some chairs. On Wednesday, Arora and Dennis Woodside, Google’s new vice president for the Americas, announced a series of changes to the Internet giant’s sales staff, which has been in limbo since Google’s top two senior sales and operations executives stepped aside in recent weeks.