Guest Post We talk to a lot of company founders about recruiting, and their stories are all pretty similar: hiring great developers is hard, and it’s getting harder by the day. Most blame external forces--the talent shortage or competitors with deeper pockets--but in our experience very few point the finger where it truly belongs: right back at themselves.
After a four-year stint as CEO of Federated Media Publishing Deanna Brown is stepping down from the position, the company announced today.
Ever since former Googler Marissa Mayer took over as Yahoo's CEO, we've been waiting to see who she puts on her executive team, with the latest addition being a new head of HR.
Best Buy's new CEO Hubert Joly likely knows more about running your local T.G.I Friday's than your technology retailer. But Best Buy says he's the right fit.
The Washington Post’s social advertising firm SocialCode has hired 15 engineers from Digg today, confirming rumors last week that the community news site was due for a shakeup.
Digg entered into serious negotiations with the Washington Post about selling the …
Talk of Twitter’s revenue sources has dominated the web over the past week, and Twitter kicked off more chatter today with two strategic hires.
Shailesh Rao will serve as Twitter’s vice president of international revenue starting in April, and Stephen …
Zynga’s rise to a social gaming juggernaut traded on the public markets—which now boasts a market cap roughly equal to long-established companies like Electronic Arts—highlights the rapid transformation of the gaming industry.
Boston’s Spark Capital, eager to tap the next …
Hi VentureBeat! I’ve just joined VentureBeat as East Coast editor, based in New York. I can’t wait to get started on Monday.
I didn’t know much about the Silicon Alley scene until the day I stumbled into NYC Resistor, a …
Glam Media announced today that it has hired 16-year Apple veteran Jeanne Seeley as its new chief financial officer and executive vice president, a move that likely positions the company for a public offering. Seeley starts work today.
Samir Arora, …
After an eight-month hunt, security startup Palo Alto Networks has named a new CEO: Former Verisign CEO Mark McLaughlin.
The privately-held startup also released a few tidbits about its financial status, indicating that it was on track to book $200 …
Twitter has added two new executives to its flock, one to focus on marketing to consumers and another to work on the company’s partnerships with global advertisers.
With both hires, Twitter is positioning itself as an important front in mainstream …
When VentureBeat first reported on Silicon Valley investor Marc Bodnick’s departure from Elevation Partners, the private-equity firm he cofounded, I noted his enthusiasm for Quora, the online question-and-answer community founded by Charlie Cheever and Adam D’Angelo, two early Facebook employees.…
When is an acquisition not an acquisition? When Twitter’s involved, apparently.
The microblogging company announced today that it had “acquired the team at Fluther, Inc.” Fluther makes a question-and-answer site, a popular category of Web startup as of late. (See …
Internet phone giant Skype has appointed former Cisco senior vice president Tony Bates as its new CEO, the company confirmed Monday.
The changeout at the top spot is one more indicator that the firm is getting closer to going public, …
Microsoft has a sprawling campus in tech’s heartland, right by the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. It has thousands of employees in the Bay Area. But the departure of a high-profile evangelist once called the software giant’s “ambassador to Silicon …
Groupon, the social-buying phenomenon based in Chicago whose CEO, Andrew Mason, I recently interviewed at the DEMO conference, has always done things a bit differently. Transparency is something they prize.
So after I suggested they beef up their PR team …
Dear Andrew:
It was great sitting down with you on stage at the DEMO conference this week. We talked a bit about the challenges of your runaway growth and the difficulties of applying your innovative collective-buying model to small, local …
Hewlett-Packard’s board is close to making a selection for a successor to Mark Hurd as chief executive. Bloomberg reported that a source said the company is close to picking an internal candidate.
The shortlist includes executives who run HP’s largest …
Grab your popcorn! Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s hire of Silicon Valley neighbor and tennis partner Mark Hurd — who, by the way, just happens to have been freshly ousted as chief of Hewlett-Packard — makes for great theater. But will …
It takes just under five months to redesign one of the largest news aggregation sites in the world and bring in a new CEO, apparently.
On the heels of former CEO Jay Adelson’s departure in April, news aggregator Digg will …
