Kevin Rose has left Digg, the news aggregation site he founded in 2004, after a few months of uncertainty over his role in the company. Rose has begun working on a separate startup that is already close to completing an initial round of funding, according to TechCrunch… Tweet This Post

Flickr’s head of product within Yahoo’s applications division, Matthew Rothenberg is leaving his post and the company, he announced yesterday via his Twitter account. Rothenberg, who was among the first dozen hired at Flickr by original founders Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, led the photo sharing site’s progress over the past five years, which includes [...]

Internet behemoth AOL announced today that it has hired Biz Stone, cofounder of white-hot microblogging service Twitter, as a “social impact advisor.” The move, which comes a week after AOL closed its deal to acquire popular blog and news aggregator The Huffington Post for $315 million, is just one of many AOL has made to [...]

Hampus Jakobsson is no Luddite. As a co-founder of interface design firm The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), which was acquired last year by RIM, he has worked on some of the most cutting-edge, mobile interface technology… Tweet This Post

It wouldn’t be so surprising (or newsworthy) if this was happening behind the scenes, but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is now openly trying to recruit Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) search engineers. In a blog post, Matt Cutts, who is Google’s most prominent search blogger, says straight out, “if you’re an excellent Yahoo engineer with solid experience in [...]

—comScore: Gregory Dale was promoted to COO from CTO, responsible now for overseeing operating activities, including the company’s Product Management, Custom Analytics and Technology groups. Dale has been at the company in various roles for a decade, joining shortly after its founding in 1999…. Tweet This Post

Intel is expected to reveal a sweeping management change on Monday, according to people briefed on the company’s plans. Among other changes, the chip maker will announce that Pat Gelsinger, the senior vice president in charge of Intel’s enterprise group, is leaving Intel after 30 years in a variety of roles, these people said. Tweet [...]

Former Yahoo president Sue Decker is one of Harvard Business School’s new Entrepreneurs-In-Residence. Sue left Yahoo (YHOO) in January after the company’s board chose Carol Bartz to be CEO… Tweet This Post

Until now, most of Tim Armstrong’s hires since he joined AOL (NYSE: TWX) as CEO have been in advertising or the business side, including a number from his former employer Google. Newest hire Brad Garlinghouse is a switch in both cases: a product guy from portal competitor Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Garlinghouse was exploring companies big [...]

AOL, under new management and with a spinoff IPO on the horizon, continues to fill out its executive ranks. The newest hire: former Yahoo exec Brad Garlinghouse will join AOL as President of Internet and Mobile Communications. Garlinghouse will report directly to CEO Tim Armstrong. Tweet This Post