Joost Names Mike Volpi As CEO
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Joost appointed Cisco veteran Mike Volpi as chief executive officer, the Internet-based TV service said Tuesday.
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The company promotes from within--Chief Operating Officer David Mitchell is appointed CEO.
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Mike Volpi usurps YouTube rival Joost, the internet video start-up, has tapped Mike Volpi, the former Cisco crown prince, to head the company.â¦
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Online TV service Joost has struck a content licensing deal with Viacom.
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RESTON, Va., March 8  /PRNewswire/ -- High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi) announced today the appointment of Thomas "Jen" Connell as senior vice president of business development and Terry Dymond as the business development lead for the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security.
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Viacom Inc., engaged in a public copyright battle with Google Inc.'s YouTube, has agreed to offer videos to Joost, the Internet video service created by the founders of Skype and Kazaa.
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PalmSource today announced Jean-Louis Gassee has been appointed Chairman of the PalmSource Board of Directors. Gassee, 60, was appointed to the Company&#39;s Board of Directors in May 2002.
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Entertainment giant Viacom is to provide  TV programmes and films to much-hyped online video service Joost.
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Philip Crawford is appointed as Chairman, bringing experience from several previous executive level positions including VP at Oracle.
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he private investor group that is acquiring Univision Communications said Tuesday that it had named Joe Uva, president and chief executive of OMD Worldwide, to become chief executive when the acquisition closes.
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By Anonymous  Richard R. Nelson, president and CEO of the Utah Technology Council, has been appointed chairman and CEO of CRITA (the Council of Regional Information Technology Associations), the largest technology organization in North America, for a two-year term.
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Red Hat Inc. , a Linux software distributor that in July said it would restate three years' of financial results, on Thursday named Charles Peters as chief financial officer.
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Two Internet entrepreneurs say their rebel and lawsuit-tinged past led to development of Joost, partnering with New York-based Viacom.  The reason we're doing this is because of our history, Janus Friis told The New York Times. We know how these things work.
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Oracle Corp. has tapped Juergen Rottler, formerly with Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), to head its growing On Demand unit, a division that sells software-hosting services.
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Red Hat&#39;s new CEO plans to keep the company focused on its core Linux OS and middleware business while also improving the service it offers to customers, he said Thursday.&quot;It&#39;s a very exciting time for Red Hat, we have a very bright future in front of us. Our business model is strong and our growth remains very, very robust,&quot; said Jim Whitehurst, who was speaking in Tokyo during his third week in the job.Whitehurst came to Red Hat from Delta Air Lines&#160;where he served as chief operating officer for two years. During that time he gained experience of being a customer of major IT vendors and says he knows well what is expected of companies like Red Hat.&quot;From a user perspective an absolute focus on service is critical. Based on talking to customers so far, one observation I have is that we need to re-double our effort working with our various partners in service,&quot; he said.Because much of Red Hat&#39;s business is done through resellers and the channel, there can sometimes be disconnects in customer service. For example, Red Hat might end up telling a customer to contact the partner while the partner refers the customer back to Red Hat, he said.But is Whitehurst the right man to be talking about customer service? After all, he came to Red Hat from an industry that is the subject of frequent complaints from its customers.&quot;I think airlines only beat out cable TV operators in customer satisfaction surveys so I&#39;m certainly not going to defend the airline industry&#39;s record on customer service,&quot; he said. Experience at Delta taught him the need to pick a small number of things and do them well to improve overall satisfaction, he said.&quot;The Delta situation was the fastest major bankruptcy ever and during that situation our customer service numbers actually went up quite significantly. We did it by focusing on a couple of things. In the airline industry it&#39;s clean airplanes and on-time, those were the two things we focused on. I know those sound like two little things but they significantly impact the customer experience,&quot; said Whitehurst.For Red Hat he said he is still working on which areas will be the priorities that he focuses upon.&quot;I understand the importance from the customer&#39;s perspective of excellent customer service in IT,&quot; he said. &quot;As an industry, information technology is not known for excellence in serving our customers well and I have been adamant from day one that everything Red Hat does will be viewed through the eyes of the customer.&quot;
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The high-profile Internet start-up Joost plans to announce today that it has hired Michelangelo Volpi, 40, as its new chief executive.
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Laurus Technologies, a regional provider of technology and business  solutions, today announced that Don Hammer joined the firm as vice  president of the Oracle consulting sales group, which operates within  Laurus' Business Applications Team.