Joost names Mike Volpi as CEO
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Joost appointed Cisco veteran Mike Volpi as chief executive officer, the Internet-based TV service said Tuesday.
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Cisco Systems Inc.  said senior executive Mike Volpi resigned on Thursday, a move that appears to clear the way for Chief Development Officer Charles Giancarlo eventually to head the network equipment maker.
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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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Electric and gas utility CMS Energy Corp. on Tuesday named president and chief operating officer David Joos to the position of president and chief executive, effective Oct. 1. Joos will succeed Ken Whipple as CEO.
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AOL Europe appoints new chief exec
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The company promotes from within--Chief Operating Officer David Mitchell is appointed CEO.
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Open-source champion Red Hat has taken its new CFO from the traditional business world. Charles Peters, who becomes executive vice president and CFO of the Linux-based firm, has a solid background as a qualified
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John Lilly, the chief operating officer of Mozilla, the developer of the open-source browser Firefox, will succeed Mitchell Baker as the firmâs chief executive.
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Joost, the new Web video venture of Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, has struck the mother lode of television programming through its deal with Viacom.
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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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Red Hat on Thursday named Charles Peters Jr. as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Peters replaces Kevin Thompson, who unexpectedly announced his resignation in June, a few days before the
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New CEO brings passion and an eclectic background to help him chart a new course for the Linux vendor.
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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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Entertainment giant Viacom is to provide  TV programmes and films to much-hyped online video service Joost.
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Longtime Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik is being replaced, the company announced on the same day it posted a quarterly revenue gain of 28 percent.James Whitehurst, formerly the COO for Delta Airlines, will take on Szulik&#39;s leadership positions and a seat on the board starting in the new year. Szulik, currently president and CEO, will remain as chairman of the board.Szulik had been Red Hat&#39;s CEO for the past eight years and is one of the most prominent business executives in the open-source world.Whitehurst joins Red Hat as the company works through a transition aimed at helping it compete better with giants like Oracle and Microsoft. The company is best known for its Linux server distribution, but that market is getting increasingly crowded. As a result, Red Hat is trying to reach out into other areas or beef up existing offerings, like its services.Despite the competitive landscape, Red Hat managed to produce solid results for its third quarter ending Nov. 30. It posted revenue of $135.4 million, an increase of 28 percent over the same period last year.Net income reached $20.3 million or $0.10 per diluted share, compared with $14.6 million or $0.07 per diluted share in the corresponding quarter of 2006.The company highlighted its JBoss Advanced Partner Program, launched during the quarter, aimed at offering support services to value-added resources in North America.&#160;Red Hat bought JBoss last year&#160;as part of its efforts to expand its offerings.
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Company founder and former CEO Dave Duffield is now back aboard full time, replacing the ousted former CEO Craig Conway. Solution providers, while shocked at Conway&#39;s unexpected departure, were largely thrilled that Duffield is back full throttle.
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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.