A little over three years since Discovery Networks hired him to oversee much of its new media planning strategy, Chris Schembri has defected to AT&T (NYSE: T), where he will…

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-- Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) MediaFlo: It has appointed Neville Meijers as the new SVP and GM for MediaFLO Technologies. In this role, Meijers will lead all functional groups for Qualcomm’s…

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Nearly four months after the departure of former head Lucy Hood, mobile entertainment firm Jamba has appointed Nokia (NYSE: NOK) veteran Mauro Montanaro as its new CEO. Forty-three year old…

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Updated: Presenting the move as routine, MNVO Helio just announced that Sky Dayton has moved to non-executive chairman of the board, leaving the post of CEO for Wohnee Sull, who…

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Telcogames has appointed Juan Montes as chairman of the board, reports Huliq. Previously Montes has been Vice President of Software Development for Sony (NYSE: SNE) Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE), Vice…

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Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel has announced several key executives are leaving: CFO Paul Saleh, CMO Tim Kelly, and Mark Angelino, president of sales and distribution, are leaving the company effective…

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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has appointed Matt White has its first head of mobile advertising, filling a role created to handle Yahoo’s increasing mobile inventory reports NMA. Previously Yahoo had its…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) hopes the man behind the Staples Inc. “easy” concept—and the physical Easy Button sold as a fundraiser—will give its mobile communications business a boost. Todd Peters joined…

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Disney (NYSE: DIS) and ESPN Media Networks have appointed Tim Connolly to the new position of VP-mobile distribution. Prior to this, he was VP of sales and business development at…

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A batch of changes at Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) and a reminder that it started as a family company. The company has reorganized into three regions for business development while placing…

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Howard Handler, who has served as CMO of Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) since it launched here in U.S. in 2003, is leaving the company. Bob Stohrer, currently VP of…

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Vivendi (EPA: VIV) announced today that deputy CFO Sandrine DuFour is stepping into the role of Chairman of Vivendi Mobile Entertainment (VME), vacated by Robert de Metz who has left…

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New Orange CEO Tom Alexander has appointed three of his ex-colleagues from Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM), the MVNO of which he was the founder/CEO and which became the fifth-largest operator…

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Infospace, which has now sold off all of its mobile businesses and fully focused on online search, will cut about 35 jobs, or about 20 percent of its work force,…

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Ex-Sprint (NYSE: S) CEO Gary Forsee will reportedly be named the next president of the University of Missouri system, the uni where he got his degree in engineering. In terms…

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Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel has named Dan Hesse, the CEO of Embarq, as its new President and CEO effective immediately. The announcement fills an opening created in early October when…

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Chris Sacca, Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) head of special initiatives and the exec behind its push for open-access spectrum, is leaving the company to become an angel investor, according to VentureBeat.…

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O2 has picked the man who will replace Matthew Key as its UK CEO. Chief financial officer Ronan Dunne will step in to Key’s post in the new year when…

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-- Glu: Mobile has appointed Frank Keeling as managing director of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where he’ll work in the London office and report to Jill Braff, senior…

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A day after Motorola (NYSE: MOT) announced that its high profile CTO was leaving, she has joined Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) as its next CTO. Padmasree Warrior will help usher in…

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High-profile Motorola (NYSE: MOT) CTO Padmasree Warrior has left the company—there are individual CTOs for each of Motorola’s businesses who will continue in their respective roles, and Rich Nottenburg, Motorola’s…

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So Ed Zander is out of the top spot at Motorola (NYSE: MOT) after resisting pressure to leave for most of the past year ... Surprisingly, Bloomberg reports that Zander…

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Zander on Moto’s Music Phone and Razr Motorola Slashes Outlook, Shuffles Executive Ranks Icahn Has Probably Failed In Motorola Board Bid Motorola’s New Phones—Zander’s Swan Song?; Napter & Movies…

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Motorola (NYSE: MOT) CEO Ed Zander will step down from his post on January 1, 2008, although he will stay on as chairman until May. Succeeding him will be COO…

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O2 UK CEO Matthew Key has been rewarded for winning the iPhone deal by being handed the CEO role for all of Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) O2 Europe (via The Telegraph).…

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