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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Viacom Inc.., engaged in a public battle with top Internet online video service YouTube, said on Tuesday it has agreed to offer its videos to Joost, the Internet video service created by the founders of Skype.
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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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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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New CEO brings passion and an eclectic background as he charts a new course for the Linux developer.
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By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 8--Cisco executive Michelangelo "Mike" Volpi has resigned from the company for personal reasons, effective immediately, the company said today.
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A senior vice president, Mike Volpi, is leaving the company after 13 years.
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Cisco says the departure of Mike Volpi as the head of Cisco Systems Inc.'s routing business "coincides" with a reorganization of that part of the company, but is not the reason for his resignation.
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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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Linux distributor Red Hat Inc has appointed a vice president of desktop infrastructure technologies, a new position demonstrating its renewed commitment to Linux as a desktop operating system.
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Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. agreed Tuesday to license television shows and movies to Joost, the new online video distribution channel launched by the founders of Kazaa and Skype.
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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.
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The parent of MTV and Comedy Central reached a deal with the upstart Joost, and will get a cut of advertising revenue.
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PalmSource (nasdaq: PSRC - news - people ) said Tuesday that it named Jean-Louis Gassee, 60, as chairman. He&#39;ll take the mantle from the retiring Eric Benhamou, 48--who also has the chair at 3Com (nasdaq: COMS - news - people ).
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JumpTV, which offers "ethnic"  television programming on the Internet, said it will announce a  deal on Friday to offer some of its shows for free on Joost, an  online video service launched by the founders of Skype and  Kazaa.
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Internet TV service Joost  has named former Cisco Systems Inc. executive Mike Volpi CEO,  the company said on Tuesday.
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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;