Google Says It Wants To Hire Yahoo Talent

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments by admin

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 [...]

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Former Yahoo and AOL Ad Exec Coleman Poised to Join the Huffington Post as President

Sep 16, 2009 2 Comments by admin

n the ongoing game of Internet exec musical chairs, Greg Coleman (pictured here), who has been a top exec at both Yahoo and AOL, is poised to become president of the Huffington Post, as well as chief revenue officer, several sources said…

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Softie Ad Exec Siebrecht to Join AdReady Start-Up

Sep 14, 2009 No Comments by admin

Apparently, not everyone leaves Yahoo (YHOO) to join Microsoft. On Friday, sources said, it was announced internally at Microsoft (MSFT) that Karl Siebrecht (pictured here), the former President of Atlas at aQuantive, is joining AdReady at the end of the month as President and COO…

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Google’s Ad Exchange Honcho Joins “Real-Time Advertising” Startup (GOOG)

Sep 10, 2009 No Comments by admin

Google’s Michael Rubenstein — the departed VP who led development of both the DoubleClick and Google ad exchanges — has found a new gig: president of cloud computing startup AppNexus…

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Industry Moves: Former Google/DoubleClick Exec Rubenstein Heads To Cloud Computing Ad Firm AppNexus

Sep 09, 2009 1 Comment by admin

Former Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and DoubleClick exec Michael Rubenstein is joining AppNexus, a company that provides online advertising via a cloud computing platform. Rubenstein has been named president of the New York-based company, AppNexus said in an e-mail release…

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Interview: Brad Garlinghouse, President, AOL Internet and Mobile Communications

Sep 08, 2009 No Comments

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 [...]

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Former Yahoo Exec Brad Garlinghouse Joins AOL

Sep 07, 2009 No Comments

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.

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Former Facebook CFO Gideon Yu Joins Khosla Ventures

Aug 26, 2009 No Comments

Gideon Yu, the former Facebook CFO unceremoniously shown the door in late March, has joined Khosla Ventures as a General Partner, we’ve heard from multiple sources…

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Twitter Poaches Another Google Designer (GOOG)

Aug 25, 2009 No Comments

Google user interface designer Leland Rechis has quit the company to join microblogging startup Twitter, Twitter’s Director of Mobile Business Development announced today…

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