Category: Media Vibes

Gerry Purdy/Mobilocity – AOTMP, telecom management certification provider and organizer of the AOTMP Telecom Management Conferences for Enterprises and Vendors, has acquired Mobilocity LLC and hired J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D. as Principal Analyst, Mobile & Wireless to support AOTMP’s growth and expansion plans in the mobile and wireless arena. Purdy’s responsibilities will include market research, conferences […]

Wireless Week – Diana Goovaerts has been promoted from Associate Editor to Editor and is now the main contact for Wireless Week. Former Editor-in-Chief Andrew Berg now serves as the Editorial Director of Advantage Business Media’s manufacturing group. WirelessWeek.com reaches more than 472,000 unique visitors per month. IDG – Michael Kan has rejoined the IDG News Service […]

Light Reading has been acquired by Informa for an undisclosed amount. The publishing, events and market research company was founded in 2000, sold to UBM in 2005 and repurchased by its co-founder and CEO Stephen Saunders in 2014. Saunders announced plans to stay with Light Reading for the foreseeable future. The acquisition of Light Reading […]

Sue Marek is leaving her position as Editor-in-Chief at FierceMarkets after nine years of service. She is joining the team at SDxCentral as VP of Content, tasked with expanding the site’s wireless coverage. She’ll be working closely with Managing Editor, Craig Matsumoto (formerly of Light Reading). Mike Dano replaces Sue as Editor-in-Chief of the Telecom […]

FierceTelecom – Ben Munson has joined Fierce, as editor of multiple pubs. Prior to joining the FierceTelecom team, Ben was the editor of CED covering regulation, network innovation, business strategies, and emerging technologies for the wireless, broadband and video industries for more than three years. He also previously served as associate editor covering wireless news at Wireless […]

Gigaom – The innovative technology blog that captured the attention of more than 6.5 million monthly readers, abruptly announced Monday that it has closed shop. The message published on the site reads: “Gigaom recently became unable to pay its creditors in full at this time. As a result, the company is working with its creditors that […]

Wired – David Pierce, former Verge deputy editor, has joined Wired as a senior writer. Former executive editor Jason Tanz was named editor at large. Tanz joinedWired in late April 2007 as a senior editor. Additionally, former director of editorial projects, Robert Capps, was promoted head of editorial, overseeing content across all of Wired’s platforms; features editor Mark Robinson was boosted to executive editor; and deputy […]

Infonetics Research – IHS Inc. has acquired Infonetics Research. Founded in 1990, Infonetics covers 21 markets across the communications technology space, including cybersecurity, core and transport networking, broadband, mobile, digital TV, data center, cloud, the Internet of Things, and more. Combined with the 2012 acquisition of IMS Research, the addition of Infonetics gives IHS a global, […]

Billing & OSS World – B/OSS, a provider of news and editorial analysis for the telecommunications billing and operations support services software sector, has folded. B/OSS covered mobility, broadband, IP migration, content & media and applications; while operator segments included wireless, cable, CLECs Tier 1s, small and medium telcos and rural operators. Earlier this year, B/OSS was acquired from Virgo Publishing […]

The 451 Group – Carl Howe has left his position as Vice President, Data Sciences Research, at The 451 Group, which was recently established with the acquisition of Yankee Group. He lead 451’s quantitative research in global mobility while analyzing and predicting the future of mobile devices. Prior to the acquisition, Carl, along with Brian Partridge, led Yankee […]