Tag: personnel

Twitter Crests 200-Employee Mark
It's a good thing Twitter obtained new headquarters in October of last year, or else employees would probably be compelled to stack their cubicles and/or do sardine imitations a...
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LinkedIn Hires Ex-Google Exec As Canada Head
Anyone who considered LinkedIn's physical expansion into Canada an odd or ill-thought-out move may want to think again.  LinkedIn has been able to secure Jonathan Lister, t...
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Yahoo Homepage Boss Set To Depart
An executive who's been with Yahoo for over five years is leaving the company.  Word leaked this afternoon that Tapan Bhat - whose two titles are "Senior Vice Presiden...
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Google Assimilates Travel Site’s Team
A few travel experts are themselves completing a trip this morning.  Google's managed to get the folks behind Ruba - a travel site - to join its organization, and they're a...
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Key Engineer Leaves Twitter
An engineer who joined Twitter in early 2007 and later earned the title "API Lead" has now left the company.  Alex Payne announced this afternoon that he's quit,...
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Seven-Year Google Vet Goes To Work For Quantcast
It's time for another personnel-related announcement, and this morning, Yahoo and Microsoft are off the hook.  Instead, it's Google that someone is quitting, as a longtime...
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Google Looks To Hire “Social” Chief
Google's track record in terms of social media is not pretty.  Consider the facts: Orkut never caught on in the U.S., Lively was killed after about six months, and so far,...
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Facebook Hires Former FTC Chairman
The odds that any privacy group - or even the government - will be able to back Facebook into a corner appear to have plummeted.  Facebook's hired Tim Muris, former Chairma...
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Microsoft Advertising Exec To Leave For AOL
A longtime Microsoft employee who plays an important role in the company's advertising department is leaving the organization, according to a new report.  Then here's the d...
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MySpace Puts Former Googler Over Games, Dev Platform
Fresh off News Corp.'s quarterly earnings report, MySpace has added a new member to its team, and he looks more than capable of helping the site move forward.  In fact, the...
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MySpace’s VP Of Corporate Communications To Leave
Today is not likely to be remembered fondly by members of MySpace's PR department.  One of the most visible people on MySpace's payroll announced this afternoon that she is...
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Yahoo’s Head Of Advertising Platforms To Leave Company
Although it's hard to imagine that any company keeps all its employees forever, it looks like Yahoo continues to be worse than average in terms of retaining important people.&nb...
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Twitter Names First CTO, Hires New VP Of Engineering
Twitter's workforce grew in terms of both size and impressiveness this week.  The company has named its first CTO (promoting a current employee), and also hired someone awa...
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Yahoo Names Next Chief Product Officer
Well, that didn't take long.  Less than two weeks after Yahoo announced that chief technology officer and chief product officer Ari Balogh would be leaving the company, a s...
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Microsoft’s Ad/Publisher Group To Get New Head
In less than one month, a change in leadership will occur within Microsoft's Advertiser and Publisher Solutions group.  Scott Howe, the corporate vice president currently i...
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