Category: Media Vibes

Mashable – Emily Price has joined Mashable as a tech reporter covering mobile apps. Previously, she was a mobile editor for Tecca and as a senior editor for TechnoBuffalo. She has also written for a several other publications, including PCWorld, Reuters, Macworld and USA Today. Mashable receives 14 million unique monthly visitors.

Synergy Research Group – As part of the strategic alliance between Synergy Research Group and TeleGeography, John Dinsdale has been appointed Managing Director of Synergy Research. He is responsible for operations, sales and marketing, in addition to leading Synergy’s research in the mobile and IPTV/video markets. He also remains as Executive Director for PriMetrica, TeleGeography’s parent […]

Joe McGarvey, Principal Analyst has departed from Current Analysis as of Friday. Joe had been with the analyst firm since December 2002 covering the carrier-based IP services infrastructure market. Prior to joining Current Analysis, Joe was executive editor of The Net Economy, a Ziff Davis publication focused on the telecommunications space. Prior to The Net Economy, […]

Penton Media – The publisher has named David Kieselstein as CEO. He was previously CEO of TNS North America, a custom research division of WPP. Kieselstein succeeds Sharon Rowlands, who left Penton to join Altegrity as CEO on Nov. 1. Kieselstein had previously led Dun & Bradstreet’s small-business division. Prior to that, he had spent the […]

Yes, we did call this one last year. The 4G World trade show and exposition has been sold to UBM plc, a global media company. The sale of the stand-alone business unit allows Yankee Group to focus exclusively on research and advisory services, as well as concentrate more investment into new products. According to UBM’s […]

Jim Rapoza joined the Aberdeen Group as a senior research analyst covering network and application performance and IT infrastructure. Previously, he was the news editor at Network Computing. he also formerly served as the chief technology analyst for eWeek.

Joining Yankee as a new Afffiliate is Bill Lesieur. He is an industry analyst, advisor and research consultant with more than 13 years experience.  Bill will be focused on mobile cloud, looking at the market from vendor, operator and end-user perspectives. Most recently, Bill established GITS Research, which is focused on cloud computing in the […]

Chris Preimesberger has been promoted to editor in chief of features and analysis for eWeek. He was previously a senior writer. He will continue to write the Storage Station blog for the publication. eWeek has a circulation of 225,000 subscribers.

Gene Signorini has been promoted to Senior VP of Research following Gigi Wang’s departure. He is coordinating the team’s focus on analyzing the impact of mobility across enabling technologies, business models and more. Gene is an industry analyst, with more than 17 years experience in the mobile and wireless industry, including 11 years at Yankee […]

Rich Karpinski has signed on as a new Senior Analyst following the closing of Connected Planet, where he was Editor-in-Chief for four years.  Rich will be focused heavily on mobile operator business models, service delivery strategies and the overall dynamics of the mobile ecosystem.