129 posts and columns on development

Buh-Bye From AllThingsD! More Staff Highlights: Fried, Goode and “Everyone Likes Mike” Isaac.

in News on December 27, 2013 at 7:00 am PT

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

News Byte

Former Yahoo and Zynga Exec Named President and COO of Audax Health

in News on December 19, 2013 at 2:48 pm PT

David Ko, who joined the board of Audax Health in September, has been named president and COO of the Washington, D.C.-based digital health development company. He’ll be based in the company’s San Francisco office. Before Audax, Ko was COO at gaming company Zynga and he also spent a decade at Yahoo in various senior roles.

Forget Trendy Coffee Beans — Now Seaweed Innovation Gets Techie Money

in Commerce on November 20, 2013 at 11:33 am PT

As they say in Silicon Valley: Move fast and break things — though, in this case, not the chips.

AOL Turns Moviefone Over to BermanBraun for Reboot

in Media on October 24, 2013 at 8:00 am PT

Press one for a much-needed overhaul of the service that still lives in 1999.

In a Big Mobile Move, Pivotal Buys Xtreme Labs for $65 Million in Cash

in Enterprise on October 2, 2013 at 12:45 pm PT

You need to be mobile in the enterprise, says the cloud-based joint venture of EMC and VMware.

AOL’s Sullivan to Take Over Its Homepage Business

in Media on October 1, 2013 at 7:35 am PT

More management changes at the New York Internet giant.

Exclusive: Microsoft’s Xbox Head Don Mattrick Leaving to Take Top Role — Possibly CEO — At Zynga

in Commerce on July 1, 2013 at 9:48 am PT

A very big hire for the troubled online gaming giant.

Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees — 18 Percent of Staff — and Shutter New York and LA Offices in Refocus on Mobile

in Commerce on June 3, 2013 at 11:35 am PT

Right-sizing the gaming giant for the mobile market.

Movile’s Bloisi Says Wi-Fi and Cheaper Prices Are Key for Smartphone Penetration in Latin America

in Dive Into Mobile on April 15, 2013 at 2:46 pm PT

The founder and CEO of Brazil’s largest mobile services company thinks the next four years will see a boom in the important region.

Facebook Photo Phenom Instagram Gets a Business Lead to Scale Its Operations (and Presumably Revenue)

in Mobile on April 2, 2013 at 1:00 pm PT

Is it time to make some dough from the billion-dollar deal?

Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty Departs to Join Nirvanix as CEO

in News, March 25, 2013 at 2:00 pm PT

Global Platform Head Carroll Departs Yahoo for Go Daddy, While Yahoo News Head Leaves for NBC

in News, March 18, 2013 at 2:26 pm PT

Telling Employees He Hasn’t “Walked the Talk,” Cisco’s John Chambers Leans In on Women in the Workplace Issue

in Enterprise, March 13, 2013 at 7:02 am PT

Alibaba Group Names Lu as CEO to Replace Ma

in Commerce, March 10, 2013 at 11:47 pm PT

Some More Inconvenient Truths (Including Spider Goats): Al Gore Talks About “The Future” at SXSW

in Media, March 9, 2013 at 2:06 pm PT

Why Facebook Is Sending Its People to Mobile Coding Camp (And Not Just Engineers)

in Social, March 4, 2013 at 1:29 pm PT

Former CBS Exec Lurie Joins Former Yahoo Levinsohn at Guggenheim Digital Media

in Media, February 22, 2013 at 10:35 am PT

Confirmed: Pinterest Completes $200 Million Funding at $2.5 Billion Valuation

in Commerce, February 20, 2013 at 3:17 pm PT

HBO’s Berkes Restructures Digital Team (Memo)

in Media, February 15, 2013 at 10:00 am PT

Former MySpace and NFL Digital Exec Jeff Berman Tapped as President of Hollywood’s BermanBraun

in Media, January 7, 2013 at 9:55 am PT

YESS: Yahoo HR Exec Loses Mayer’s Survey Contest, Gangnam Style

in News, January 7, 2013 at 5:04 am PT

After Declaring It the Future of Yahoo, CEO Mayer Appoints IntoNow’s Cahan to Mobile Kingpin (Internal Memo, Natch!)

in Mobile, November 2, 2012 at 7:03 am PT

It’s an iStorm: Scott Forstall Out at Apple, Along With Retail Head, as Other Top Execs Get Promotions

in News, October 29, 2012 at 2:10 pm PT

Mayer Lures Google Deals Lawyer to Yahoo

Dreamworks Animation Names New CTO

in Media, October 3, 2012 at 3:00 am PT