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Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 30 Nov 2007 08:04 AM PST
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…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 30 Nov 2007 08:03 AM PST
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 Moto…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 30 Nov 2007 07:40 AM PST
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…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 30 Nov 2007 02:05 AM PST
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).…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 28 Nov 2007 10:05 AM PST
Bill Stone, till recently the president of the shuttered MVNO service Amp’d, has joined mobile software and content retailer Handango as the new CEO. Founder Randy Eisenman will remain “actively…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 30 Oct 2007 03:54 AM PST
Participation media and mobile marketing company Telescope has appointed Jason George as chairman of the company. George joined the company in 2006 through its UK-based parent company Harvest Media Group,…
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Tue 23 Oct 2007 01:25 AM PST
It didn’t take long for Orange to rush out a press release after the news leaked out yesterday that it wanted to replace its UK CEO Bernard Ghillebaert. Tom Alexander,…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 18 Oct 2007 12:04 AM PST
Synchronization company Sharpcast has made three new management appointments in preparation for marketing its platform around the world… Korak Mitra has joined as vice president of sales and business development.…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 17 Oct 2007 12:01 AM PST
GoTV Networks has announced that Carmi Zlotnik has joined the board of directors, and has been appointed as the company’s executive chairman. Zlotnik was previously the executive vide president of…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 12 Oct 2007 11:39 AM PST
A busy departure week at Fox Mobile/Jamba (part of News Corp.) : first Lucy Hood, the CEO, and now comes the news that Chief Sales Officer and director, Markus Berger-de…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 11 Oct 2007 10:44 AM PST
Stan Sigman, the executive responsible for bringing the iPhone to AT&T (NYSE: T) and integrating mobile operations with Cingular, is stepping down as the CEO of AT&T Mobility. He was…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 10 Oct 2007 01:47 PM PST
Fox Mobile/Jamba (part of News Corp.) CEO Lucy Hood has resigned this morning, we have learned through sources, and now confirmed by PR. Jamba COO Lee Fenton will be the…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 08 Oct 2007 05:07 PM PST
GoTV Networks, the mobile video production company based in LA, recently lost it CEO as David Bluhm left. He has now joined as the CEO of NextMedium, a startup that…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 08 Oct 2007 01:49 PM PST
Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) chairman and CEO Gary Forsee is stepping down effective immediately amid investor and board unrest. Forsee’s departure comes less than a week after back-to-back reports from…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 03 Oct 2007 05:27 AM PST
--DotMobi has announced a couple of new executive appointments: Trey Harvin has been appointed as CEO and David Ryder as VP of Marketing and Sales. Harvin previously served as VP…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 01 Oct 2007 11:06 AM PST
MobiTV, the heavily-funded mobile video distributor, which was looking for a CEO for a few months now, has finally found one: Charlie Nooney ..he will start Oct. 15. Nooney will…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 01 Oct 2007 10:07 AM PST
Ben Goldhirsh, the 27-year old founder of Reason Pictures and Good Magazine, has hived off a new digital division (technically a separate company) called Good Digital, and has invested an…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 01 Oct 2007 09:32 AM PST
Paul Reddick, the former VP of content/data at Sprint (NYSE: S)/Nextel, has taken over as CEO of mobile software company Handmark. He currently serves as a member of the Handmark…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 18 Sep 2007 12:01 AM PST
-- Mobile auction-game company Limbo has hired Dave Oberholzer as vice president of corporate development where he will help build the company’s mobile entertainment and advertising products. Oberholzer was previously…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 10 Sep 2007 02:42 PM PST
Mobile content provider Twistbox Entertainment has raised $19.5 million in funding in a round led by an affiliate of ValueAct Capital and including other strategic investors. Twistbox raised $12.75 million…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 04 Sep 2007 05:30 AM PST
Miles Flint, the president of Sony Ericsson, has left the job saying that he “wanted to develop new personal and business opportunities after nearly 17 years at Sony and Sony…
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Fri 31 Aug 2007 05:26 AM PST
...A racy deal not of the adult kind, but of the Formula One car kind. Vodafone now has an expanded mobile portal for the 2007 Vodafone McLaren Mercedes racing team,…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 29 Aug 2007 12:53 PM PST
Dan Novak, who has long been the public face of MediaFLO at industry events (as the VP of Programming and Advertising) has moved out of the Qualcomm division, and is…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 22 Aug 2007 01:50 AM PST
Electronic Arts’ mobile division in Europe has hired former Vodafone games boss Tim Harrison as its director or marketing, reports Mobile Entertainment. Harrison had worked with industry standards body OMTP…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 09 Aug 2007 10:18 PM PST
Former Amp’d Mobile founder and CEO Peter Adderton and most of the execs on its content (Amp’d Live) team are close to joining Wi-Max broadband wireless ISP Clearwire (Nasdaq:CLWR), MocoNews.net…
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