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The head of Sprint ( NYSE: S ) Nextel's CDMA business, John Garcia, is leaving, WSJ reports . No reason was given for his departure and a company spokesperson declined to comment. Sprint's CDMA business makes up 70 percent of its customer base. Keith Cowan, president of strategy and corporate...
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Mobile social network platform provider envIO networks has appointed former Vantrix head Manish Jha as president and CEO of the company. He replaces the company's co-founder and previous CEO Prakash Iyer, who takes up the position of Chief Technology Officer. Jha, who arrives from Vantrix, a Montreal...
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Virgin Mobile USA ( NYSE: VM ) CFO John Feehan has decided to stay on in his current role after announcing plans to leave for the same position at LifeLock a couple months ago. Feehan's departure and relocation to Phoenix was coming up soon, but he thought better of it before making the leap. "It...
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Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) filed its annual report for the 2008 fiscal year with the SEC today, and after combing through the 93-page document, we found a few items worth noting. Here's the highlights: Employees: At the end the year, the company had about 32,000 full-time equivalent employees and an additional...
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What with Scott Moore , George Kliavkoff and, today, George Bush, it's a week of departures. Add to that list Tony Fadell , SVP of Apple's iPod division ( bio ). He is leaving for personal reasons and will be replaced this month by IBM microprocessor technology development VP Mark Papermaster...
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Sprint ( NYSE: S ) Nextel said today that Ralph Whitworth has resigned from the company's board and that it has appointed Sven-Christer Nilsson, according to a document filed with the SEC. Although Whitworth only joined the board in February, his contributions will likely be missed. In the last year...
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Lee Williams, the current head of Nokia's S60 organization, will become executive director of the Symbian Foundation, which aims to transition the mobile-phone operating system to open source. He will remain in his current role until January 2009, or when the Symbian foundation and the leadership...
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Geraldine Wilson has been appointed to the position of CEO at Truphone , a London-based company that enables phones with Wi-Fi to make regular phone calls and send text messages using the Internet, according to a press release . Previously, Wilson worked at Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO ), where she was responsible...
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Bruce Stewart, who left Yahoo's ( NSDQ: YHOO ) Connected Life division last month, where he was responsible for the business development activities and product implementations in the Americas, including the AT&T ( NYSE: T ) MEdiaNet implementation of oneSearch, is now joining kgb as CEO of the...
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Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO ) is reorganizing the Connected Life division with the intention of actually making money. The reorganization, announced internally today at an all-hands meeting, includes a management shuffle and the new goal of contributing to Yahoo's bottom line by 2009, according to an email...
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Sony ( NYSE: SNE ) Ericsson ( NSDQ: ERIC ) is cutting 450 employees from its North American operations in Durham, North Carolina. Triangle Business Journal reports that SE had 750 staff at its Research Triangle Park location, which is one of the handset manufacturers key R&D units. The layoffs are...
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Vodafone ( NYSE: VOD ) has appointed two heads to its recently split emerging markets division. The company has promoted from within, moving current UK chief executive Nick Read to run its Asia Pacific and Middle East division, and shifting current Middle East & Africa CEO Morten Lundal to lead its...