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Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 01 Oct 2008 11:19 AM PST
Mobile game developer Capcom Interactive is combining its mobile operations in North America and Europe together under one single management team, so it can better leverage its global scale, the…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 30 Sep 2008 04:18 PM PST
AT&T (NYSE: T) has placed its wireless head Ralph de la Vega in charge of all consumer services offered by the company including landline phone, broadband, IPTV and mobile, WSJ…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 29 Sep 2008 01:59 PM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is reorganizing the Connected Life division with the intention of actually making money. The reorganization, announced internally today at an all-hands meeting, includes a management shuffle and…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 29 Sep 2008 01:51 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is cutting 450 employees from its North American operations in Durham, North Carolina. Triangle Business Journal reports that SE had 750 staff at its…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 29 Sep 2008 03:39 AM PST
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) has appointed two heads to its recently split emerging markets division. The company has promoted from within, moving current UK chief executive Nick Read to run its…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 24 Sep 2008 01:21 AM PST
Ad-supported free mobile network Blyk has appointed Carat Belgium’s MD Eric Samson as its CEO in the country, as it gears up to launch there. The MVNO running on Orange…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 19 Sep 2008 01:43 PM PST
Clearwire’s (NSDQ: CLWR) CEO Ben Wolff sent out an email today, announcing who he will recommend for the top senior positions of the New Clearwire when the merger closes with…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 17 Sep 2008 06:19 AM PST
Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) USA’s CFO John Feehan is quitting his post, the company announced today. He heads out to Phoenix, Arizona in mid-November where he becomes CFO of identity…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 16 Sep 2008 08:46 AM PST
Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) has appointed SK Telecom’s Richard Chin and Sungwon Suh to its board following the acquisition of Helio and SK Telecom’s investment in the company. --…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 10 Sep 2008 07:49 AM PST
-- Crisp Wireless: The publishing and advertising solutions provider has hired Thomas Foran as its chief revenue officer to lead sales growth and counsel the company’s blue chip clients. Foran…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 09 Sep 2008 06:00 AM PST
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) CEO Vittorio Colao has made his first new changes to the global network operator since the July departure of Arun Sarin. Vodafone has appointed a new chief…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 08 Sep 2008 09:30 AM PST
Supermarket telco Tesco Telecoms has promoted its marketing director Lance Batchelor to be CEO, encompassing its Tesco Mobile MVNO, internet access, VoIP, mobile sales and more. The supermarket giant reckons…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 05 Sep 2008 06:37 AM PST
NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) UK-based EMEA mobile director Amelia Gammon is leaving to join Fox. Gammon joined the broadcaster’s new mobile unit in 2006 following a stint as digital marketing…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 03 Sep 2008 01:53 PM PST
-- Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) USA: Naval officer Daniel Acton is joining as Virgin Mobile’s new chief information and technology officer. He will be responsible for the Virgin Mobile USA’s…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 01 Sep 2008 11:00 PM PST
Cyriac Roeding, the former EVP of mobile at CBS (NYSE: CBS), who has been documenting his just concluded mobile world tour for us, has joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 29 Aug 2008 12:01 PM PST
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) updated the compensation package of Greg Brown, the company’s Co-CEO and head of Motorola’s Broadband Mobility business, according to a document with the SEC today. The new…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 28 Aug 2008 11:06 AM PST
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…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 27 Aug 2008 02:48 AM PST
Andrew Bagguley, the head of mobile strategy at News Corp’s (NYSE: NWS) News International UK news publisher, is leaving next month, a further casualty of the corporate-level reorganisation ensuing from…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 21 Aug 2008 11:54 AM PST
-- mBlox: Ken Elmer has been selected to lead mBlox’s global finance and human resources as CFO. Previously, he was SVP-finance and administration for Tiburon. -- Quattro: Quattro Wireless has…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 21 Aug 2008 06:53 AM PST
News Corp’s UK satellite pay-TV unit Sky has promoted David Gibbs to general manager for Mobile, and has appointed ex-AOL head of mobile Tim Hussain to the newly created position…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 20 Aug 2008 08:48 AM PST
When Motorola (NYSE: MOT) appointed Sanjay Jha as CEO Of Its Handset Unit and co-CEO Of Motorola, you knew more heads were going to roll as Jha went about putting…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 18 Aug 2008 11:23 AM PST
A very short report in Globes, a Israeli business publication, said that Cambridge, Mass.-based JumpTap, a mobile search and advertising company, laid off about 20 employees as part of a…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 13 Aug 2008 03:25 AM PST
Bebo is hiring Intercasting international GM Sean Kane as its first global head of mobile, charged with giving the teen-focused social net more legs in the wireless space. Bebo worked…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 11 Aug 2008 09:46 PM PST
-- mSpot: Mobile music and entertainment company mSpot has hired Aline Yu as VP of marketing and Gregg Brown as director of product marketing. Most recently, Yu worked at Adobe…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 05 Aug 2008 03:23 AM PST
Now that Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has chosen a CEO for its struggling handset unit, everyone wants to know can Sanjay Jha save the company, or is he “too little, too…
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