Ingrid Lunden
Jan 31, 2012 6:07 AM
Napoleon once described the UK as a “nation of shopkeepers”, so it is somewhat fitting that this is where Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has gone to find its next retail supremo.
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Tom Krazit
Jan 27, 2012 12:38 PM
Jon Rubinstein, the former Palm CEO who revived the company under WebOS but was never able to produce a breakthrough product after HP paid $1.2 billion for Palm, is leaving HP (NYSE: HPQ). His departure is not exactly a surprise, coming six months after he was reassigned just before HP…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 24, 2012 8:29 AM
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), as it winds up as a troubled joint venture to become fully part of Sony, is spinning out some talent in the process: it’s understood that Anderson Teixeira, formerly an executive that had run different regional operations for the JV, is now Apple’s first…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 23, 2012 8:02 AM
RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) today held its first official call in the wake of the news last night that it had decided to appoint a new CEO, Thorsten Heins, with its co-CEOs, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis resigning from their joint position in the role.
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Tom Krazit
Jan 22, 2012 9:17 PM
Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) has finally decided to get serious about its predicament: co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are stepping aside after a disastrous year in which the company squandered its once-dominant position in the smartphone market.
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Staci D. Kramer
Jan 17, 2012 4:53 PM
Investors won’t have Jerry Yang to blame anymore. In a stunning move announced after the markets closed, the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) co-founder resigned from the company’s board of directors and from all other positions—effective immediately. Just as quickly, Yahoo’s stock jumped in after-hours trading.
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Tom Krazit
Jan 6, 2012 4:34 PM
Sprint (NYSE: S) is retrenching a bit following an exhausting year for the company, combining its consumer and business divisions in a move designed to save cash that also recognizes the nature of the modern smartphone buyer.
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Tom Krazit
Jan 6, 2012 2:06 PM
In a move that further sets up Kazuo Hirai as the heir apparent at Sony (NYSE: SNE), the company has promoted him to president, taking that title away from Howard Stringer but keeping Stringer in place as CEO and chairman of the board, according to a report.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 5, 2012 6:34 AM
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have looked westwards for its latest CEO—the Canadian, ex-Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executive Stephen Elop—but, in picking its new chairman, it appears the handset maker may remain Finn.
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Tom Krazit
Jan 4, 2012 5:03 PM
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has reportedly hired a new leader for its iAd effort, in hopes of getting its home-grown solution for in-app advertising off the ground. And it has poached a top executive from one of its most recent foes, with Adobe’s Todd Teresi set to join the company.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 4, 2012 9:13 AM
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) this morning confirmed that it has appointed a new CEO, Scott Thompson, formerly the president of eBay’s payment division, PayPal. His appointment comes four months after Carol Bartz was fired from the job.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 4, 2012 6:49 AM
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) faced a pretty big whack of upheavals in 2011—not least of which was the none-too-quiet departure of their outspoken former CEO Carol Bartz. Will the company this year try to stabilize and play things a bit more quietly? Just days into 2012, a report has emerged that…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 2, 2011 9:37 AM
If you had any doubt about Facebook’s ambitions in mobile, here’s another move that underscores the social network’s priorities. It has hired a new mobile head of developer relations, James Pearce.
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Laura Hazard Owen
Nov 16, 2011 5:32 PM
Longreads founder Mark Armstrong is bringing his long-form journalism curation skills to Read It Later, where he is signing on as editorial advisor.
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Tom Krazit
Nov 15, 2011 4:49 PM
Disney (NYSE: DIS) President and CEO Bob Iger has agreed to join Apple’s board of directors, filling the vacancy left by the death of co-founder Steve Jobs last month. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) also named current board member Art Levinson as non-executive chairman of the board.
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 11, 2011 11:54 AM
So a changing of the guard at mobile ad company 4INFO, which announced a funding round of $14 million just last month: Zaw Thet, the company’s outspoken founder, has left his role as the CEO and is getting replaced by Tim Jenkins, who has worked for a number of tech…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 10, 2011 5:38 AM
Some of the latest entrances and exit in hiring in the UK digital media business…
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Laura Hazard Owen
Nov 1, 2011 5:08 PM
Hyperlocal news network Main Street Connect has a new CEO—tech industry vet Zohar Yardeni—and also closed a $7 million funding round, the company announced.
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Tom Krazit
Oct 24, 2011 11:44 AM
Now that Siri is baked into an iPhone, Dag Kittlaus seems to have decided that his work at Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) was complete. The co-founder of Siri left Apple at some point over the last few weeks after the launch of the iPhone 4S featuring Siri, a voice-recognition search and…
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Laura Hazard Owen
Oct 10, 2011 11:32 AM
Charlie Redmayne, EVP and chief digital officer of HarperCollins, is leaving to become the CEO of interactive Harry Potter site Pottermore.com, starting November 7. It’s a high-profile publishing hire for Pottermore.com, which recently announced that it is delaying the launch of its e-bookstore until next year.
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