European mobile search engine Taptu is heading to the U.S. and has tapped Mitch Lazar as president and COO to be in charge of its American operations. Lazar was Yahoo’s former European mobile head. He joined Taptu’s board as a “non-executive” in March. 

Mitch Lazar, Yahoo’s European Mobile managing director, stepped down last month after a major restructuring at the company led to the disbanding of Yahoo’s mobile group. Now Lazar has resurfaced as a board member at Taptu, a mobile search company (a subject Lazar should know a little something about after…

Mitch Lazar, Yahoo’s European Mobile managing director, is stepping down from his post after working at the company for four and a half years. Lazar marks one of many recent departures from Yahoo’s mobile group. Over the past year-or-so, departures range from all the way at the top, like Marco…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has launched a new product Yahoo Mobile, which rolls its OneSearch, OneConnect, and OnePlace products as well as other features such as Yahoo Maps, into a more convenient package than its previous attempt with Yahoo Go, which it replaces. More importantly, the new service is an open…