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| Wednesday, February 4, 2009 |
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 Clarizio Ouster Follows AOL's Latest MistakeAOL oustered Platform-A boss Lynda Clarizio yesterday. In our opinion, the move is all about reversing her decision to can AOL's experienced premium salespeople, as well as AOL's recent emphasis on ad networks. Which means that AOL has lost yet another year. Are Randy Falco and Ron Grant, AOL's bosses, going to be held accountable for this? Lynda was their hire, and they presumably supported her salesforce integration decisions. Now, a year later, with AOL missing its targets again, it seems Lynda will take the fall. The Bebo acquisition. Emphasis on networks vs. proprietary inventory. Platform A. Lynda. Never-ending missed projections. How much failure will Jeff Bewkes take? Read > Ad Boss Lynda Clarizio Out At AOL Platform-AMeet Greg Coleman, AOL's New Ad BossExclusive Screenshots Of Bebo 2.0, Launching In February | |
| Yahoo's Bartz On Verge Of Making First Big Mistake Yahoo's new CEO, Carol Bartz, is decisive and tough--qualities that Yahoo needs desperately. She was also smart to say "WTF?" on the culture of embarrassing press leaks that have plagued an imploding Yahoo over the past few years. But by turning leak prevention into a crusade, which Carol seems on the verge of doing, she's about to make her first big mistake. Read > | |
| IBM To North American Employees: To Keep Your Job, Move To India Recent announcements of mass layoffs have created new scrutiny around the H-1B visa program, which brings foreign tech workers (mostly from India) to the US for work (at below-market wages, critics say). But IBM is going with a novel tack: Instead of bringing cheap Indian workers to America, the company is demanding its American workers move to cheap India and get paid India-standard wages. Read > | |
| EA Blows Another Quarter, Narrowing Portfolio In December, Electronic Arts warned investors its holiday sales were "not meeting our sales expectations." Things were worse than we feared: in earnings today the company announced a huge miss, earning 56 cents a share when the Street expected 88. Read > | |
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We had previously wondered how many versions of Windows 7 there will be. Now we know: Microsoft will offer six, count 'em six, different versions of 7. Read > Amazon Sold 500,000 Kindles In 2008 -- Citi Next Monday, Amazon (AMZN) will likely unveil the next version of its Kindle e-book reader at a press conference in New York. But how did the gadget do last year before it sold out in November? Pretty well! Read > Ask.com And Norton In Search Deal, Neither Company To Be Saved Will Google's highly-publicized snafu in which it flagged the entire Internet as "harmful" cause people to distrust its "this site may be harmful to your computer" warnings and embrace other search engines / security solutions instead? Read > CNBC No. 2 Jonathan Wald Leaving Jonathan Wald, a senior vice president at CNBC who runs the network's editorial operations, is leaving the the company. Jonathan reports to CNBC boss Mark Hoffman. The newsroom reports to Jonathan. According to a source, Jonathan is leaving because his contract runs out at the end of the quarter, and he and the network could not come to terms on an extension. Read > New iPhones Could Run Multiple Apps At Once Apple could be on the way to fixing one of the iPhone's biggest shortcomings. The company is considering allowing apps from its wildly successful App Store to run in the background, according to MacRumors' Arnold Kim. Read > | |
| Red Herring Back Online With Last Week's NewsAmazon Launches Its Casual Games StoreGoogle And Yahoo, Both Trailing In Korea, Join ForcesMotorola Cellphone Spinoff Still Happening... Someday | |
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