Mozilla promotes Lilly from COO to CEO
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COO John Lilly taking over from founding CEO Mitchell Baker, who will remain chairman of company behind the open-source Web browser.
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AOL Media Networks executive David Lebow has been hired as president and chief executive officer of Internet Broadcasting Systems in Minnesota.  Lebow, who was executive vice president and general manager of AOL Media Networks, succeeds Reid Johnson as Internet Broadcasting's CEO.
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Starbucks Corp.  on Tuesday promoted the head of its international business to the new post of chief operating officer, part of a slew of management changes focused on the coffee shop chain's rapid global expansion.
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Echoing the move the Mozilla Foundation made with Mozilla Corp. and Firefox back in 2005, Mozilla Corp. on Monday spun off a for-profit subsidiary to tend to its Thunderbird e-mail client.
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All Mozilla browsers, including Firefox, boasted a combined share of 7.35 percent, a five-percent increase since May. Jakob Snilsberg, Opera Software&#39;s manager of global distribution, gamely
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Mozilla took out an ostensibly dual-purpose ad in the New York Times yesterday. One reason was to thank everyone who contributed to the open source browser project and, as such, the ad included some 10,000 names, in small print of course.
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By Luke Timmerman, Seattle Times  Dec. 12--Eli Lilly is laying off all 700 employees at Icos, including all 550 in Washington, as part of its pending purchase of the state's largest locally based biotech company.
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RALEIGH, N.C., Dec. 8  /PRNewswire/ -- Micell Technologies announced today that it has appointed David Dresner to serve as the Company's Chief Financial Officer on an interim basis effective December 16, 2006.  Mr.
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Padcom Inc. has new chief executive officer. Scott A. Stone, the Bethlehem company&#39;s chief operating officer since last year, has been named CEO.
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The Mozilla Foundation has released Version 1.0 of its Firefox browser, an open-source product that has generated lofty expectations that it will offer real competition to Microsoft Corp.'s ubiquitous Internet Explorer.
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&quot;Corporate execs are more comfortable with a known brand name. Even though Mozilla (and FF, Camino, K-Meleon, etc.) are based on the same code, they are not &quot;Netscape&quot;. When execs are made aware of the faults and deficiencies of IE, they may think &quot;I wish ...
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Firefox 1.0 appears to have sparked new activity in the Web browser market. The release of the open-source Web browser by the Mozilla Foundation last week prompted Microsoft Corp.
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(InfoWorld) - Mozilla spun off its Thunderbird e-mail client into a new for-profit subsidiary on Monday and seeded the unnamed company with $3 million in startup money, the open-source developer announced. The move is identical to the one made by the umbrella Mozilla Foundation in 2005 when it created Mozilla Corp. to manage Firefox. "The new organization doesn't have a name yet, so I'll call it MailCo here," said Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker on her blog Monday night. "Technically, it will be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, just like the Mozilla Corporation." MailCo is the result of internal talks and public discussion aboutÂ the future of ThunderbirdÂ that began in July. Then, Baker, who also chairs the Foundation, said that because Firefox was Mozilla's first priority, it had to divest itself of Thunderbird. Among the options she outlined: Creating a new nonprofit organization similar to the Mozilla Foundation to focus on the e-mail program; building a new subsidiary of the foundation just for Thunderbird; and releasing Thunderbird into the wild as a community-only project. Scott MacGregor and David Bienvenu, the two Mozilla employees who headed Thunderbird development efforts, voted for the third option. Today, however, Mozilla chose the second. Most Thunderbird users blasted Baker and Mozilla for wanting to ditch the e-mail program, which competes with Microsoft's Outlook and IBM's Notes, as well as with Web-based e-mail services such as Windows Live Mail, Yahoo Mail, and Google's Gmail. The new company will focus on developing communications software based on the current Thunderbird product, its code base and its brand. The goal is to create a community of developers, similar to the one already in place for Firefox, that's dedicated to working on Thunderbird and associated products. "We can spark the same kind of excitement and energy level and innovation [as with Firefox] in the email/communications space," Baker said. Among MailCo's out-the-gate goals, said Baker, are supporting existing Thunderbird users and creating "a better user experience for a range of Internet communications" that will explore how e-mail should work with other technologies such as RSS, instant messaging, VoIP, and SMS. David Ascher, the former chief technology officer and vice president of engineering at ActiveState Software, a Vancouver, British Columbia development tool maker, will lead the new company, said Baker in a statement. "David has been a respected member of the Mozilla community for many years and we're excited that he is joining Mozilla to lead this important effort." Ascher, also the director of the Python Software Foundation, has led Komodo, a Mozilla-backed, open-source development environment project. Less than two weeks ago, ActiveState debuted its Open Komodo Project, which will switch many of the company's already-free development tools to open-source. Mozilla was set to announce the new venture Tuesday morning, but moved up the news several hours to Monday night when Yahoo said earlier in the day that it wouldÂ acquire Zimbra,Â a privately held Web-based e-mail and collaboration provider, for $350 million. It's unknown whether Mozilla's current in-house Thunderbird developers will continue with the new company. Baker hinted that they may not. In her blog, she explained that the $3 million in seed money for MailCo will "be spent mostly on building a small team of people who are passionate about e-mail and Internet communications." Neither Thunderbird developer Scott MacGregor, who started the project in February 2003, or his co-worker, David Bienvenu, responded to a request for comment. ComputerworldÂ is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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(InfoWorld) - Former Cisco SystemsÂ executive Mike Volpi will become CEO of online video company Joost Operations, replacing founding CEO Fredrik de Wahl, the company announced Tuesday. De Wahl will remain with Joost as chief strategy officer, the company said. Volpi, who takes command immediately, was a 13-year Cisco veteran, serving as the company's senior vice president and general manager of its Routing and Service Provider Technology Group untilÂ his resignation in February. Under De Wahl's stewardship,Â Joost signed content distribution dealsÂ with major providers including CBS. Still in beta, Joost will offer free video content supported by advertising, and is already poised to rival other such sites, namely Google's YouTube. Joost was founded in January 2006 by Janus Friis and Niklas ZennstrÃ¶m, creators of Skype, now part of eBay. Â
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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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Last week&#39;s two-page advertisement in the The New York Times paid for by fans of Mozilla&#39;s Firefox browser is bringing in more downloads, a Mozilla employee said Wednesday in an online blog.
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InfoWorld - Mitchell Baker has stepped down as the CEO of Mozilla Corporation, where she helped make the Firefox Web browser a potent rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.