Yahoo hires former News Corp internet chief
Last Updated on Thursday, 28 October 2010 12:40 Written by External Post Thursday, 28 October 2010 12:40
Yahoo has appointed former News Corp internet chief Ross Levinsohn as an executive vice-president. Levinsohn will be reporting to chief executive Carol Bartz, who has an eye on his track record for executing digital media strategies to increase user
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IDF2010: Intel launches Atom chips for embedded apps and internet connectivity
Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 September 2010 08:00 Written by External Post Wednesday, 15 September 2010 08:00
Intel has launched ‘Tunnel Creek’, a family of Atom processors for embedded applications in smart grid devices, car entertainment systems and IP media phones. Intel vice-president Douglas Davis unveiled the Intel Atom E600 System-on-a-chip (SoC)
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Facebook’s Chris Cox Explains Why Places Is ‘Dope’
Last Updated on Thursday, 19 August 2010 11:40 Written by External Post Thursday, 19 August 2010 11:40
Facebook concluded the unveiling of its new Places location check-in feature today with a speech from vice president of product Chris Cox (pictured here at another event) that was either inspiring or cheesy, depending on how charitable you were. Either
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Skype hires Yahoo’s customer experience expert
Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 July 2010 06:20 Written by External Post Wednesday, 7 July 2010 06:20
Virtual telecoms company Skype has hired Yahoo’s vice-president for customer engineering Madhu Yarlagadda as its new chief development officer to look after Skype’s engineering and development initiatives. Madhu was with Yahoo for 11 years, during which
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Yahoo search exec Larry Cornett moving on
Last Updated on Friday, 25 June 2010 12:01 Written by External Post Friday, 25 June 2010 12:01
Larry Cornett, formerly vice president of consumer products for Yahoo Search (Credit: Cornett Experience) One of Yahoo’s key search executives, who sought to put the best light on its decision to outsource back-end search crawling to Microsoft over the
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Interview with Jeff Russakow from Yahoo!
Last Updated on Thursday, 24 June 2010 03:20 Written by External Post Thursday, 24 June 2010 03:20
In the same week that Google revealed plans to launch a system that will allow publishers to charge for content, executive business channel MeetTheBoss.tv sat down with Yahoo’s Jeff Russakow, executive vice-president of customer advocacy, to discuss
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Google’s Chrome OS to Launch In Fall
Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 June 2010 03:01 Written by External Post Wednesday, 2 June 2010 03:01
Kidfork writes ‘On Wednesday Google’s vice president of product management said that this fall Google will launch Chrome OS to compete with Microsoft Windows. More than 70 million users already use the Chrome Browser, and Google expects at least 1
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Facebook to Make Privacy Control Easier
Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 May 2010 08:40 Written by External Post Tuesday, 25 May 2010 08:40
On Wednesday, Facebook will unveil a new version of its privacy menu intended to make adjusting the settings much easier for its members. Chris Cox, vice president of product at the company, speaking on-stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, a technology
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Google Backpedals On Turn-By-Turn GPS For iPhone
Last Updated on Saturday, 24 April 2010 03:20 Written by External Post Saturday, 24 April 2010 03:20
Smurf writes ‘Last October Google’s Vice-President of Engineering Vic Gundotra announced that Google would bring turn-by-turn GPS navigation to the iPhone: ‘However, Google is working with Apple on bringing it to the iPhone, and it’s not ruling out
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Facebook hires ad exec from Google
Last Updated on Saturday, 27 March 2010 12:20 Written by External Post Saturday, 27 March 2010 12:20
Last month, when Facebook ended its advertising partnership with Microsoft, opting to take all its advertising sales in-house, . Indeed, that it has hired David Fischer away from Google as its vice president of advertising and global operations. ‘It’s a
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