DreamWorks Animation Executive Joins MobiTV
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EMERYVILLE, Calif., May 29  /PRNewswire/ -- MobiTV, Inc., the leading provider and platform for content delivery over mobile and broadband networks, today announced the appointment of Bill Losch as the Company's chief financial officer (CFO).
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New Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman reveals his plans for growth.
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Microsoft is working to boost the appeal of Windows Mobile among consumers by appointing a new head of marketing and by lending support to a new application for viewing Web content.Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it has hired Todd Peters, formerly an executive with Staples, to be corporate vice president of marketing for its mobile communications business. Peters is tasked with positioning Windows Mobile to appeal more to a consumer audience. He fills a position left vacant by Suzan DelBene, who recently left the company.Microsoft also said it will help market and distribute&#160;Zumobi, a software program that makes it easier for Windows Mobile users to access Web sites and widgets, or small applications that provide up-to-date information from the Web.Zumobi said in a statement Tuesday that Microsoft will distribute the software with Windows Mobile, although Microsoft characterized it as more of a marketing deal and said it would make Zumobi available for download from its Web sites.Either way, the software, which had been available in beta since December from Zumobi&#39;s Web site, should now be easier for customers to get hold of. Zumobi did not respond to questions about the agreement.The announcements reflect a recent push at Microsoft to attract more consumers. &quot;We are definitely moving into making Windows Mobile come alive for the consumer,&quot; said Scott Rockfeld, group product manager at Microsoft&#39;s Windows Mobile group. Rockfeld and other Windows Mobile executives have been emphasizing that the operating system is designed to be attractive to users in their personal lives as well as their work lives.For now, the most compelling value is for enterprise customers who want mobile access to their corporate data and documents, and Microsoft will need to reach more consumers to maintain growth in the future, said Charles Golvin, an analyst at Forrester Research.&quot;They need to continue to evolve the value proposition and range of applications that are more centered around consumers, even though their primary focus is -- and will remain in the near future -- on the enterprise,&quot; he said.The appointment of Peters and support for Zumobi appear to support this gradual buildup of support for consumer applications, he said.
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Shares in DreamWorks Animation, the studio behind the hit films &quot;Shrek 2&quot; and &quot;Shark Tale,&quot; gained 38.4 percent on Thursday, their first day of trading.
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The former head of LG's Korean mobile carrier, LG Telecom, will become the new chief executive officer of LG Electronics, the company said Monday.
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An MTV Networks Europe head has quit to join the British broadband television service, BT Vision.  Michael Berry, managing director of MTV U.K. & Ireland, in April will join BT Vision as director of programming, Variety said Monday.
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DreamWorks announces huge numbers for Shrek 2's video debut.
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DreamWorks will film the  adventures of the iconic Belgian comic-strip hero Tintin, the  project's developers said Thursday.
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MobiTV Inc., which transmits cable TV channels to cell phones, said Wednesday it has surpassed 2 million users, doubling its subscriber base in less than a year.
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Tony Scott, who most recently was CIO at Walt Disney, will take over that same role at Microsoft in February.
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Mobintech, a Denmark-based group, believes it has found the solution to the mobile phone industry's problem of trying to offer television and video services on a tiny screen.
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Microsoft has tapped a former executive at Walt Disney to fill its CIO position, a move that shows the company continuing to fill top executive positions from outside the company.Tony Scott, who most recently was CIO at Walt Disney, will take over that same role at Microsoft in February, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner. Scott, who also will be a corporate vice president at Microsoft, replaces Stuart Scott, who&#160;departed the company in November. The two are not related.Scott will manage Microsoft&#39;s 4,000-person IT organization, which is responsible for all of the technology systems supporting the company&#39;s worldwide sales, marketing, and services operations, as well as the enterprise systems and applications for all corporate processes.At Disney, where he was senior vice president in addition to CIO, Scott was the first CIO to manage the entire company&#39;s IT systems, according to Microsoft. Prior to Disney, Scott was CTO at General Motors and vice president of operations at Bristol-Meyers Squibb.There are a lot of new faces in the ranks of upper management at Microsoft, with a rash of them signing on to the company in the last six months. Just last week Microsoft revealed that company veteran Jeff Raikes, president of its Business Division, will&#160;leave the company in September. The company tapped an outside executive -- former Juniper Networks, Macromedia, and Adobe executive Stephen Elop -- to fill that role.Other new hires to the company since last July include: Dan Reed, Microsoft Research director of scalable and multicore computing in November; Robert Youngjohns, president of North American sales and marketing and corporate vice president in November; Brian McAndrews, senior vice president, Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group in August; and Don Mattick, senior vice president, Interactive Entertainment Business in July.There is likely more new blood to come as Microsoft also confirmed last week several other executive departures: Bruce Jaffe, corporate vice president of corporate development; Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft&#39;s general manager of platform strategy; and&#160;Rob Short, corporate vice president of the Windows Core Technology group.Apart from CEO Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft&#39;s entertainment and devices division, many of the company&#39;s other top executives have joined the company in the past three years. They include the man widely seen as Gates&#39; successor, Chief Architect Ray Ozzie, who joined Microsoft in 2005. Kevin Turner, Microsoft&#39;s chief operating officer, and Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of Microsoft&#39;s Online Services Group, also joined the company that year.
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NEW YORK  - Three striking writers have found work with a new-media studio run by a former MTV Networks executive.
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Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks company has committed to produce at least one movie on the famed Belgian cartoon character Tintin, the head of the Tintin studio announced Thursday.
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Gadget maker Sling Media Inc. said it plans to announce on Thursday that it has hired two former MTV Networks executives to head a new interactive programming division.
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Viacom Inc. named Joel Hollander chairman and chief executive of its Infinity radio unit to replace John Sykes, who will move on to Viacom's MTV Networks.
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NEW YORK -- A top networking gear producer plans to offer a speedy new cellular technology that's an alternative to DSL and cable Internet access with the added advantage of being available on the road.