Tricia Duryee
Aug 30, 2010 3:41 PM
Steve Boom is best known for his 10-year stint at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), where he was repsonsible for the company’s mobile products, and while he hasn’t necessarily gone anywhere, he’s nabbed a more prominent role at Loopt, the location-based mobile company that has been more recently overshadowed by newcomers, like…
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Tricia Duryee
Jan 14, 2009 2:12 PM
Steve Boom, Yahoo’s former SVP of Connected Life, which includes mobile, has been appointed to the position of CEO at mig33, a mobile social community. Boom left Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) this fall, after spending a decade at the company. He will also join mig33’s board. mig33, based in Burlingame, Calif.…
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Tricia Duryee
Aug 28, 2008 1:06 PM
Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) losing two more of its senior executives, this time from its mobile division, which falls under the heading of Yahoo’s Connected Life. Steve Boom, SVP of Connected Life, who reported to EVP Marco Boerries, and Gary Roshak, VP of mobile advertisers and publishers, are both leaving the…
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Tricia Duryee
Mar 10, 2008 12:00 PM
After Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) SDK event, I drove north to Sunnyvale to meet up with Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) mobile group. I figured since I was in the neighborhood, and I’m from Seattle, I might as well make the most out of the trip. As I headed into the meeting with…
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