Kara Swisher in Media on January 20 at 1:15 pm PT
I love the smell of reorg in the morning!
Kara Swisher in Media on January 19 at 11:54 am PT
Good morning yesterday, you wake up and time has slipped away …
Kara Swisher in News on September 6, 2011 at 3:55 pm PT
According to sources at the company, Yahoo’s Carol Bartz is no longer CEO of Yahoo. CFO Tim Morse has been named interim CEO.
The situation around the departure is unclear, but Bartz has had a rocky tenure in her 30 months at the company.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 5, 2011 at 8:49 am PT
Electronic Arts has reorganized its management team to take into account its acquisition of PopCap, once it’s complete, and the departure of COO John Schappert, who left in April to fill the same role at Zynga.
Kara Swisher in News on March 1, 2011 at 3:06 pm PT
As AOL CEO Tim Armstrong works to integrate his $315 million purchase of the Huffington Post into the Internet portal, one of its top advertising leaders is departing for a big job at Yahoo.
Mark Ellis will become head of the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s North American field sales, after serving in a wide variety of jobs at AOL and being a key lieutenant to global ad sales head Jeff Levick.
Kara Swisher in News on February 7, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is the gift that keeps on giving–at least to Greg Coleman.
He’s the Chief Revenue Officer at the Huffington Post–for which the Internet giant just forked over $315 million to acquire–who will get a multimillion dollar payout from the deal.
Except Coleman is the same guy whose three-year contract as AOL’s onetime sales head was paid out by Armstrong after he was replaced after only three months.
Kara Swisher in News on January 5, 2011 at 4:35 pm PT
David Zinman, Yahoo’s VP and GM for display advertising–who came to the company via its acquisition of BlueLithium ad network–is leaving the company and will be replaced by the CEO of Dapper, another ad-related Yahoo purchase.
The move in Yahoo’s most important revenue unit comes even as its new leader, Americas EVP Ross Levinsohn, reorgs his management team.
Kara Swisher in News on September 30, 2010 at 12:53 am PT
Here’s how Yahoo’s top brass and board–with the help of its newly re-engaged crisis-management PR firm, Abernathy MacGregor–are already trying to spin the latest executive turmoil to hit the company:
Trashing those on the way out, to take focus off those remaining who have been just as responsible for driving the Internet icon, and claiming that this is all part of yet another well-planned reorganization at Yahoo.
Don’t believe most of it for a second. Some of it is corporate politics as usual, some of it rejiggering of events, some just not true at all.
Kara Swisher in News on June 22, 2010 at 1:21 pm PT
This is just hitting the wires: Yet another restructuring of RealNetworks, complete with layoffs, office closures and a new organizational look.
The company is cutting 85 jobs, including a good chunk of its exec team, along with dumping some global offices. This means about $10 million in restructuring charges said RealNetworks in a statement.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 11, 2010 at 7:10 am PT
“A simplified company structure.” Evidently, that is the solution to all Nokia’s problems–to the erosion of its share of the smartphone market and its failure to develop a worthy rival to the likes of Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry. And so this morning, the handset maker announced another sweeping overhaul of its management structure, its second reorganization in less than a year.
