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Chegg's Dan Rosensweig Talks About the Next Wave of Online Textbook Rentals and More!

Kara Swisher in News on August 19, 2010 at 12:58 pm PT

Earlier this week, BoomTown went down to Santa Clara, Calif. to the offices of Chegg, the online textbook rental leader, to pay a visit on longtime Silicon Valley exec Dan Rosensweig. Today, in a bid to expand its offerings beyond books, Chegg said it had acquired Courserank, a Mountain View, Calif. start-up that helps students “share their course schedule, take classes with their friends, read and write reviews on classes and professors as well as find out how professors grade.” Here’s the video.

What Do Maxim Magazine, Chrysler and Your Tax Dollars Have to Do With Each Other?

Peter Kafka in Media on March 27, 2009 at 2:56 pm PT

More than you think. Or more precisely, they all have former media bank bigwig Steve Rattner in common.

New Guitar Hero Rosensweig and Activision CEO Kotick Speak!

Kara Swisher in News on March 24, 2009 at 6:21 am PT

As reported Sunday night by BoomTown, former Yahoo exec and Quadrangle Group partner Dan Rosensweig will become CEO and president of the Guitar Hero division of gaming giant Activision Blizzard. I chatted with both Rosensweig and Activision president and CEO Bobby Kotick yesterday about the move and where the gaming company is going in the year ahead. “I love music and I love big brands,” said Rosensweig, whose enthusiasm for music, especially for Bruce Springsteen, is well known in the digital industry.

Exclusive: Dan Rosensweig Steps Up to Take His Licks as Guitar Hero Frontman

Kara Swisher in News on March 22, 2009 at 6:54 pm PT

Former Yahoo COO and current Quadrangle Group partner Dan Rosensweig will take over as CEO and president of Activision Blizzard’s powerful Guitar Hero franchise, according to sources close to the situation. Rosensweig will run the hot gaming company’s division, located in Silicon Valley, for Activision head Bobby Kotick. The pair know each other well, since Kotick served on Yahoo’s board for many years when Rosensweig was a key exec there. He’s also just the kind of consumer Web exec that Kotick has been looking for to turbocharge the largely retail Guitar Hero business online.

Media Mogul Steve Rattner Goes to Washington, Where He Won’t Be Car Czar

Peter Kafka in Media on February 24, 2009 at 3:50 am PT

Steve Rattner, once one of the most prominent bankers in the media business, is going to Washington after all. Except that the Quandrangle Group founder won’t be getting the “Car Czar” job he was originally supposed to take in the Obama administration, since that job never got created. He’ll be an adviser, instead. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama has formally appointed his New Media team.

Yahoo's Jerry Yang to Step Down, as a Search for New CEO Commences

Kara Swisher in News on November 17, 2008 at 4:50 pm PT

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang will step down from his job as CEO, said sources close to the company, as soon as the board finds a replacement for him, in what sources close to the situation call a joint decision by him and the directors. Yahoo will announce the move later today. [UPDATED: Yahoo has since confirmed the move.] Yahoo has hired Heidrick & Struggles, the well-known executive search firm, to vet candidates, both internally and externally, to take over the top spot at the troubled Internet giant. Sources said it is unlikely current Yahoo President Sue Decker will get the job, which is more likely to go to an outsider. Some BoomTown choices: News Corp. COO Peter Chernin, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman or former Yahoo COO Dan Rosensweig.

Who Will Be Microsoft's Next Online Chief? McAndrews? Miller? BoomTown?

Kara Swisher in News on July 24, 2008 at 4:22 am PT

BoomTown was all busy trying to think of execs to replace Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, as pressure mounts on him to right the troubled Internet company. But now, Yang’s position feels safer than ever and it’s his nemesis–Microsoft–that needs a new leader for its long-stumbling online services business. Microsoft is already been cracking, according to sources, with a wish list of internal and external candidates that CEO Steve Ballmer is now considering.