NeoMedia Names William Hoffman As CEO
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FORT MYERS, Fla., June 6  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NeoMedia Technologies, Inc.
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Metacafe, one of the world's largest video  sites, today announced the appointment of Erik Smith as vice president  of content and programming.
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NBC Universal named Jeff Zucker as its  new chief executive on Tuesday, a widely expected move that  caps a fast rise to the top by the 41-year-old television  network executive.
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Network General&#8482; Corporation, the leading  provider of IT Service Assurance Solutions, today announced that  industry veteran Gregg Kalman has joined the company as vice president  of Worldwide Business Development.
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Longtime movie industry moguls Bob and  Harvey Weinstein are the latest media players to invest in a  social networking site, after the Weinstein Co. on Monday said  it has taken an undisclosed stake in aSmallWorld.net.
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(InfoWorld) - It may seem like tilting at windmills, but Wallop Technologies expects to shake up the social networking market, currently dominated by entrenched players like News Corp.'s MySpace, Facebook, and Friendster. Wallop is betting that a slick platform based on Adobe Systems' Flash multimedia system, an absence of ads, and a community of third-party developers will set apart its social networking site, which it will announce on Tuesday at Demo Fall in San Diego. A private companyÂ spun off from Microsoft's research unit, Wallop hopes its service will primarily draw people between the ages of 18 and 25 who value its "high-end" yet intuitive user experience, said Karl Jacob, the company's chief executive officer. Wallop's Flash platform is open to developers, so that they can create modules for members to dress up and enhance their social network profiles. Some of these modules will be free. Wallop will share revenue with the developers from the sale of others. Goowy Media, a San Diego startup, will offer several modules for Wallop, and, at least for now, all will be free, said Alex Bard, the company's president and CEO. For Goowy, offering modules for Wallop is a way to promote itself and its Flash-based Webtop application, which includes e-mail, calendar, contacts, games, instant messaging, file storage and optional add-ins. This is the first deal of its kind for Goowy, whose executives decided to feature its work on Wallop after being impressed with the service's user interface, Bard said. "They have created a great new experience," Bard said. "They're not taking a me-too approach to social networking, and that's very smart." To address the privacy and safety concern affecting MySpace, Wallop will provide very granular access features so that members can control who has access to their profiles. Wallop also impressed Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox. "It's a very different type of user experience. Instead of interacting with static Web pages, there's a lot of motion and fluidity in it. It's more alive." Now, it remains to be seen if Wallop will be able to attract a critical mass of people and if enough of them will be willing to spend money on purchasing modules for their profiles, Wilcox said. "It's not just about having a great place. You need to have people there," Wilcox said. Another interesting issue will be whether Wallop ends up competing with Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces blogging service, which has been adding social networking features. Jacob believes Wallop will appeal to a younger, more specific demographic group than does Live Spaces. Microsoft owns a stake in Wallop, which is also backed by investors like Norwest Venture Partners, Bay Partners, and Consor Capital. More information isÂ available here.
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Yesterday Yahoo announced that it has closed its acquisition of Right Media, buying 80% of the company for $650 million. Yahoo had already owned the other 20% of Right Media. Right Media&#8217;s CEO, Michael Walrath, will now serve as Senior Vice President of Yahoo under Yahoo President Susan Decker. Yahoo announced their intentions to acquire Right Media [...]
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Dan Farber, over at ZDNet, is reporting that LinkedIn's founder, Reid Hoffman, has made their plans clear to open up API's and create a developer platform. From CNET Blogs Network.
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Jeff Zucker is expected to be named chairman and chief executive of NBC Universal, succeeding Bob Wright.
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Ross Levinsohn, the top Internet executive at News CorporationÂs Fox entertainment unit, has been succeeded by Peter Levinsohn.
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Microsoft this week has appointed Mogens Elsberg as the new head of its Navision enterprise applications business, in charge of leading product strategy and managing partner relationships.ADVERTISEMENTWhite paper: Solutions to Address IT Control RequirementsLearn how BMC Software Solutions address requirements such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 in this 20 page whitepaper!
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CNN News Group on Monday said it has tapped an online media CEO as its new president overseeing US news, just a little over a year after it hired a former local TV newsman to run its domestic operations.
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Yahoo has promoted David Karnstedt to head of North American sales, continuing a company restructuring that began in December 2006.
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Continuing the prime-time  ratings turnaround at NBC and expanding revenue streams in the  digital age are among the key priorities for Jeff Zucker, who  was named CEO of NBC Universal on Tuesday.
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The online application vendor has ported its productivity tools to the social networking site.
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NBC Universal television chief Jeff Zucker -- longtime heir apparent to chief executive Bob Wright -- will be promoted to the network's top job early in the coming week, taking over an operation making massive cuts on the television side to beef up its Internet presence.
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Edgar S. Woolard Jr., former chairman of DuPont &amp; Co., has been named to the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange, the exchange said Thursday.