Tag: personnel

Starbucks CEO Joins Groupon Board Of Directors
Groupon employees might want to look for the quality of coffee at their workplace to improve in the near future.  This afternoon, Groupon announced that Howard Schultz, the...
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President Of Akamai To Join Yahoo’s Board Of Directors
Heads up, Yahoo watchers.  On April 1st, the company's board of directors will undergo a change, with longtime board member Eric Hippeau resigning his post. David Kenny, th...
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Microsoft Search Head Gets Big Promotion
Whoever's in charge of printing Microsoft employees' business cards is sure to be loading the machines with some of the best paper and ink available.  Microsoft announced t...
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Google Tallies 75,000 Job Applications In Single Week
Nine days ago, Google announced with some fanfare that it intended to hire at least 6,000 new employees this year.  Now, it turns out the response was immediate and almost...
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eBay Attracts Employees From Bing, Facebook
eBay lost an important employee last week (the VP of product development at PayPal jumped to Google) but things are now looking up on the personnel front.  The company's ma...
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Yahoo VP Leaving For Groupon
The company that's said to have turned down a $6 billion acquisition offer from Google has now lured an important employee away from the second-biggest name in search.  Mic...
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Twitter Adds Bing’s Principal Scientist To Employee List
"Principal scientist" is an important-sounding title, and it's hard to imagine any person holding it wouldn't contribute a lot to his or her company.  Unfortunate...
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PayPal VP Of Product Development Moves To Google
Fans of Google Checkout and/or the idea of paying for things with your Android smartphone have reason to cheer this morning: Osama Bedier, the (former) vice president of product...
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Yahoo Confirms Layoffs Ahead Of Q4 Earnings Report
In a few minutes, Yahoo will release an earnings report concerning the fourth quarter of 2010, but prior to that, the company's admitted that yet another round of layoffs is tak...
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Google Plans 1,000-Person Hiring Spree In Europe
Anyone concerned that Google's growth will slow under Larry Page can probably at least put aside those fears with respect to the company's headcount.  Outgoing CEO Eric Sch...
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Google Snags Microsoft Kinect Developer
Last year, Google invested in Zynga and Ngmoco, acquired Slide and Jambool, and unveiled games intended for the Chrome Web Store in rapid succession.  Now, the search giant...
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Rumor: Chrome Chief To Stick With Google Despite Twitter Bid
As news stories go, there have been more interesting ones than an employee not switching companies.  However, rumors indicated that Twitter was courting Google's Sundar Pic...
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MySpace Confirms 47 Percent Staff Reduction
If you happen to know anyone who's employed by MySpace, today's a good day to keep them in your thoughts.  MySpace CEO Mike Jones confirmed that heavy layoffs will occur, w...
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New SVP Of Yahoo Media Network Hired
Most stories covering personnel moves at Yahoo don't exactly count as wins for the company, but it looks like Yahoo's set to attain a victory.  Reports indicate Mickie Rose...
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Facebook Poaches News Corp. Gaming Exec
This weekend, word spread that Facebook had raised $500 million in funding at a valuation of $50 billion, and following that, we imagine a few early employees and investors plac...
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