Category: Media Vibes

Sean Griffey Leaves FierceMarkets

Industry Dive from FierceMarkets – President, Sean Griffey; Lead Developer, Eli Dickinson and VP of Sales, Ryan Willumson are leaving the online B2B media company, to pursue a new entrepreneurial opportunity. They are co-founding a company called Industry Dive that will create mobile dashboards for B2B industries. Sean had been with FierceMarkets since March 2005, taking on […]

Connected Planet Shuts Down

Connected Planet (Previously Telephony) – Penton Media announced today that Connected Planet is ceasing operations. “We tried for some time but it never achieved an appropriate revenue model,” said Warren Bimblick, Penton’s senior VP-strategy and business development. Launched in September 2009, Connected Planet targeted service providers and enterprise users of advanced telecommunications, IT and mobile networking services. Connectedplanetonline.com had more than 127,000 unique […]

Michael King Leaves Gartner

Gartner– Research director Michael King is leaving the company after more than 11 years of service. His areas of coverage included enterprise network services, including wireless data and applications in the United States and Canada. A replacement has not yet been named.

Chris Nicoll Joins ACG Research

ACG Research – Chris Nicoll has been named Principal Analyst. Chris will lead ACG’s mobility practice services and syndicated programs, which includes mobile infrastructure, service provider WiFi and service provider VoIP services.  Previously, Chris was a member of the Yankee Group Research Council and was chartered with the responsibility of providing thought leadership to the research […]

Staff Changes at TechCrunch

TechCrunch – Eric Eldon and Josh Constine have joined TechCrunch as writers covering Silicon Valley. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Eric was founder and editor of Inside Network, overseeing all editorial content. Josh also worked at Inside Network as lead writer covering Facebook.  Senior editor Sarah Lacy has left her post at TechCrunch after nearly 3 years with the publication covering entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. TechCrunch and its […]

Samantha Murphy Joins Mashable

Mashable – Samantha Murphy has joined Mashable as a writer covering all things tech. She was most recently a senior writer for TechNewsDaily since June 2010, she also wrote stories for sister publications LiveScience.com and Laptop Magazine. Mashable receives 14 million unique monthly visitors.

Two New Hires at RCR Wireless

RCR Wireless News – Arden Operating Company, owner of RCR Wireless News has named Wallace Ryland, as executive in residence. Wallace was formerly Kiplinger Washington Editors head of digital business development. He will be focusing on both the revenue growth and brand awareness of RCR Wireless News and TelecomCareers.com while evaluating new companies and opportunities to […]

Two New Writers at WIRED

WIRED – Robert McMillan is now a writer for WIRED, covering enterprise technology for the Wired Enterprise section as well as software, web services and tablets,. He most recently covered computer security as a senior writer for IDG News Service for nine years. Eric Smalley, a onetime senior editor at Network World and PC Week has […]

G Business VoIP Insider Launches

G Business VoIP Insider – The newly launched publication, G Business VoIP Insider aims to educate telecom professionals about the business telephony market, specifically with regard to what’s new for IP phone systems, phones and applications related to messaging, contact center and mobility. The publication’s  goal is to provide unbiased evaluations of new phone system offers […]

Ed Gubbins Joins Current Analysis

Current Analysis – Ed Gubbins has joined Current Analysis as Senior Analyst for Mobile Access Infrastructure in the Service Provider Infrastructure Group. His focus is tracking, analyzing and reporting on developments impacting mobile infrastructure and mobile networking: 2G and 3G RAN and packet core along with, LTE, metro-scale Wi-Fi and WiMAX. Prior to joining Current Analysis, […]

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