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LinkedIn has management shakeup as its moment in recession sun hits

LinkedIn has management shakeup as its moment in recession sun hitsWhy does there have to be an exit strategy?Why not create a long-lasting, profitable business?People need to stop looking for the quick win and start focusing on building value over decades.RE: LinkedIn has management shakeup as its moment in recession...

Tags: recession sun hit, management shakeup, LinkedIn, recession

Discussion threads 2008-12-18

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Bartz announces new management structure at Yahoo but offers no details

update below with details of the new management structure Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz announced a management reorganization this morning in a blog entry titled "Getting our house in order" but offered no specifics on who's in and who's out. What we do know - via an SEC...

Tags: Team, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Bartz, Team Management, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Yahoo swings to loss for Q4; focus shifts to Bartz, 2009

updated: Looking at the bigger picture, Yahoo's fourth-quarter financial results - which includes a swing to the loss column and a drop in revenue - really doesn't mean much. After all, that was then and this is now. In the fourth quarter, Jerry Yang was running the...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Search, Sales, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Dell shuffles management deck; Focuses on global units

Dell ended 2008 with a management shakeup. The company said Wednesday that it has realigned its business to focus on four global groups: Large enterprise, public, small and medium sized business and consumer, which is already set up as a global unit. Here's a...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Mark Jarvis, Smb/Sme, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-31

LinkedIn has management shakeup as its moment in recession sun hits

LinkedIn is going through a management shakeup where CEO Dan Nye is handing back the reins to founder Reid Hoffman. The move comes at a curious time since LinkedIn is likely to be countercyclical and get more usage in the downturn as folks look for work. Based...

Tags: Recession, LinkedIn, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-18

News to know: Windows 7; OpenOffice flaws; Cybercrime; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: You've got Windows 7 questions, I've got answers Sam Diaz: Real vows fight for RealDVD, adjusts outlook Ryan Naraine: Code execution flaws...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Flaw, LinkedIn, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Linux, Federal Government, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Government

Blog posts 2008-10-30

Ballmer does Windows; Johnson joins Juniper

Update: Microsoft had its annual management shakeup--these things tend to happen at the end of the fiscal year--and Kevin Johnson is leaving as head of the company's platform and services division. As a result, Johnson's unit is split into two--Windows and online services--and CEO Steve Ballmer becomes the primary advocate...

Tags: Juniper Networks Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

3Com names new CEO; Eyes China expansion

3Com said Tuesday that it has appointed Robert Mao to replace Edgar Masri as CEO. The networking firm also brought on Ronald Sege as president and chief operating officer. The shakeup isn't entirely unexpected given the 3Com's inability to sell itself to a group of investors led...

Tags: 3Com Corp., Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-29

Sears picks new online leader; Let's hope he gets the security thing

Sears Holdings is expected to name a Microsoft veteran to head its online business. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sears will name James Barr, who was the general manager of Microsoft's MSN Shopping and Marketplaces. Barr will become a senior vice president of Sears Holdings. ...

Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Leader, Sears Holdings, James Barr, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-26

It's about time dept.: Sprint CEO draws investor heat

Now, finally, a dissident SprintNextel shareholder with quite a bit of clout is expressing some very public discontent about how the company is being run. Very public, as in an interview with two Wall Street Journal reporters posted today. "We...

Tags: Wall Street Journal, Sprint Communications, Investor, Corporate Governance, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-04

Yahoo's Rivals.com acquisition enhances local footprint

While Yahoo's acquisition of college and high school sports site Rivals.com is a move to boost community and the content on Yahoo Sports don't underestimate the impact on Yahoo's local reach. Local sports are the primary reason that local newspapers exist. In fact, I'd argue it's the No. 1 reason...

Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Social networking, Search, General

Blog posts 2007-06-21

SAP under the microscope post Agassi

The departure of SAPs Shai Agassi may not change much for the enterprise software companys daily operations, but the company is likely to be examined more closely now that its software architect is gone. On Wednesday, SAP announced that Agassi...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, SAP AG, Shai Agassi

Blog posts 2007-03-29

Sun servers to get Intel inside

Sun Microsystems has once again joined forces with Intel. After a hiatus of a little over two years, the computer maker will begin offering Intel-based servers and workstations again, starting in the first half of this year, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz said during a press conference today. Sun has pledged...

Tags: Uncategorized, Intel Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2007-01-22

Yahoo shakeup: Semel stays; Rosensweig goes; is the reorg enough?

Rumors of Yahoos management shakeup turned out to be on target, but some of the execs coming and going are a bit of a shocker.Shocker: Yahoo chief operating officer Dan Rosensweig is leaving at the end of March.Semi-surprise: CEO Terry Semel stays on board.A bit of a surprise: Yahoo is...

Tags: Yahoo!s, Yahoo! Inc., General

Blog posts 2006-12-05

HP cutting IT workforce 58ò0by 2008

HP cutting IT workforce 58ò0by 2008Not goodTalk about a shakeup! This is pretty bad.http://opendomain.blogspot.com/Will it work?Is he another accountant taking a gamble with his future or does he actually understand technology?Automating IT?....Better come up with a scheme to automate management and board operations. An AI system that makes decisions...

Tags: Benefits, Hewlett-Packard Co., information technology, HP-IT, Randy Mott, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-09-28

An early skirmish in the HD DVD wars

An early skirmish in the HD DVD warsThe real competitionis DVD, though. Why spend major money to replace your television, player, and library for barely perceptible improvements (or, in many cases, actual degradations) in viewing quality?Especially when the announced roadmap will make all of them not only obsolete but...

Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Digital media, HD-DVD

Discussion threads 2006-07-14

For Vista, a few extra months can only help

For Vista, a few extra months can only helpgoing to 11Nice Spinal Tap reference!Microsoft: Fix Word. Pleazzzzzzzz.Let's hope they take this time to do some real work on Word, which needs a major overhaul.For years I've said they can take 10 legal secretaries and 10 medical and make...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows NT, Word processors, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-03-22