iPhone game developer ngmoco has lured a big name to head up its new publishing division—Sega of America President and COO Simon Jeffery. As chief publishing officer, Jeffery will run the company’s Plus+ Publishing division, which will give third-party game developers access to ngmoco’s established network of games (and satisfied…

Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Executive Chairman Jon Rubinstein, a former Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) executive who has been leading the company’s turnaround, will become Palm’s CEO, succeeding Ed Colligan, who is stepping down after 16 years at the company, according to AP. Release. Rubinstein’s resume includes a stint at Apple, where Steve…

Bellevue, Wash.-based Motricity has announced another senior executive appointment, tapping Jim Ryan for the role of Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer. Ryan’s most notable recent experience was as vice president of consumer data services for AT&T (NYSE: T) Mobility, where he helped grow the business from $250 million to over…

Baltimore-based Millennial Media, which is one of the largest mobile ad networks in the U.S., has appointed digital media and advertising veteran Wenda Harris Millard to its board of directors. Millard, who is now president of Media Link, a advisory firm for companies in media, entertainment, marketing and advertising, will…

Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) reported first-quarter earnings today, including higher revenues and a narrower loss. It also announced a series of management changes, including the appointment of three new executives, and shuffling around others. Clearwire’s CEO Bill Morrow (pictured, right), who was appointed only two months ago, said today that they…

Spain’s Telefónica has replaced the head of its German operations, after just two years in the post. Ex-Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) manager Rene Schuster (pictured right) will take over in June as CEO of O2 Germany, after its current chief exec Jaime Smith has been called back to Madrid to become…

Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel has appointed Bob Johnson to the position of president of its CDMA business unit, which continues to lose subscribers despite having a strong restructuring plan in place. Johnson replaces Keith Cowan, who was serving as interim president of Sprint’s CDMA business unit. Cowan will now be…

As part of its overhaul of its struggling UK unit, Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) announced today that it had appointed Richard Moat, former CEO of Orange Romania, as its new managing director. Moat, a Briton, who steps into the job in June, replaces American Jim Hyde, who left the company…

—Motricity Appoints CFO: Platform provider Motricity has appointed Allyn Hebner as Chief Financial Officer. Hebner was previously the Chief Accounting Officer at T-Mobile USA, which grew from $1 billion in annual revenues and 8,000 employees to $17 billion in revenues and 30,000 employees during his tenure. In January Motricity made…

Correction: In a previous version of this story, we said Don Lindsay was “the mastermind” behind the iPhone user experience. That is incorrect. An Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) spokesman got back to us today and said Lindsay left the company in 2003. The iPhone was introduced much later, in 2007. An…

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has named Anderson Teixeira, currently Head of Region Western Europe, to the position of President of Sony Ericsson U.S. and Head of Region North America. He replaces Najmi Jarwala, who left last month to pursue other career opportunities. Teixeria will officially start June 1…

The BBC is getting its second head of mobile appointment in six months. Richard Titus, who replaced Matthew Postgate in November, is leaving to join Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) newspaper publisher DMGT as CEO of its Associated Northcliffe Digital unit. He’s being replaced by Mark Kortekaas, the former CBS Interactive…

—Mobile payments and billing solutions company Billing Revolution has appointed Marc Saulino as VP of Business Development. Saulino comes from competitor Bango (AIM: BGO), where he played an integral role in the company’s North American business as its New Business Development Director. At Billling Revolution Saulion will oversee sales of…

On Monday, Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr. informed Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel that he will not stand for re-election at the next annual meeting on May 12, according to a document filed with the SEC. The company did not say why he would not stand for re-election, but that it was…

—Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson: Najmi Jarwala, President of Sony Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) USA and Head of Region North America, comprising of the U.S. and Canada, is leaving the company at the end of the month to pursue other career opportunities, the company said today. No successor has been named yet,…

MySpace announced a number of new appointments today, which we covered on our sister site paidContent.org. As part of that, we learned that Bjorn Laurin has been asked to take on an extended role as Director of MySpace Mobile International. In an internal memo obtained by paidContent, MySpace CEO Chris…

Rogers Communications, the telco that owns Canada’s dominant wireless carrier, could publicly name its current chief operating officer and president Nadir Mohamed as its next chief executive officer sometime in the next two weeks, according to the Globe and Mail, citing “a source close to the situation.” Mohamed’s appointment has…

Sony Ericsson has a change in its top management. Chief Technology Officer Mats Lindoff has decided to leave the company at the end of March to pursue new career opportunities outside of Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC). He’ll be replaced by Ronald Louks, who’ll be promoted internally from Head…

With pressure mounting on Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) to not only roll out, but successfully operate a WiMax network, the company’s board said today it has named telecom veteran Bill Morrow as CEO, replacing long-standing co-founder and CEO Ben Wolff. Morrow, 49, will join the company today, coming from positions at…