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Barrett Sheridan Promoted Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek – Barrett Sheridan has been promoted to technology editor at Bloomberg Businessweek. He previously was an associate editor since June 2010. Additionally, Joshua Green will be joining the magazine as a senior national correspondent, leaving The Atlantic, where he served as a senior editor. The publication has a total reach of 13 million views in print and online.

Acquisition Exit Strategy: Beyond Talking Points

You’ve decided your company’s exit strategy is acquisition. Now, the key is strategically positioning your company to successfully reach that end game. Having assisted many recognizable brands through acquisition, including: • RIM’s acquisition of TAT The Astonishing Tribe • RIM’s acquisition of fastmobile • Google’s acquisition of Widevine • Lucent’s (now Alcatel-Lucent) acquisition of Telica […]

Changes at the San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle – James Temple was named a technology columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. His column, Dot-commentary, runs Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays and focuses on technology legal issues, public policy and innovation. He most recently served as a technology industry reporter since August 2009 and, prior to that, he covered commercial and residential real estate. Business […]

New Editor in Chief at InformationWeek

InformationWeek – Laurianne McLaughlin joined InformationWeek as editor in chief of the publication’s website. She was previously on staff at CIO.com, where she served as managing editor. Other titles she held while at the outlet include senior news editor and technology editor. InformationWeek reaches 440,000 business technology professionals.

Changes at Adweek

Adweek: The Voice of Media – Ki Mae Heussner joined Adweek as a staff writer. She previously served as an online technology producer at ABC News for ABC Television Network. Senior editor Anthony Ha has left VentureBeat to join Adweek as a reporter covering technology and start-ups relevant to the media and advertising industries. He was promoted to senior editor at VentureBeat in January, having previously served […]

Editorial Director Brian Lam Leaves Gizmodo

Gizmodo – Editor and editorial director Brian Lam is leaving the publication. He was named editorial director in September 2008 and editor in July 2006. Replacing Lam is Joe Brown, who was promoted from morning page editor to editor in chief and editorial director. Also at the site, Matt Buchanan was promoted from afternoon page editor to deputy editor.  Gizmodo has […]

John Simons Joins the Associated Press

Associated Press – John Simons has joined the Associated Press in New York as technology and media editor. He comes from Black Enterprise Magazine, where he served as editorial director for personal finance since June 2010. He also has previously served as a technology writer for Fortune magazine. AP serves 1,700 newspapers and 5,000 radio and television outlets in the United States […]

FierceVoIP to Re-launch as FierceEnterpriseCommunications

FierceVoIP – Beginning July 5th, FierceVoIP will re-launch as FierceEnterpriseCommunications.  Launched  seven years ago, FierceVoIP would like the name of the publication to more accurately capture their scope of coverage beyond voice to include video, collaboration, presence, and more.

Tim Green, Executive Editor, Mobile Entertainment

Welcome to PR Vibes™, created by Calysto Communications to provide you with key insights into the publications and events in the communications industry. Today, we’re featuring a short interview with Tim Green, the executive editor of UK-based Mobile Entertainment. Enjoy! What is the editorial mission of Mobile Entertainment, and how has it evolved? The original […]

Elisabeth Rainge Leaves IDC

IDC – Elisabeth Rainge has left her position of Research Vice President, NGN Operations at IDC. She had been with the analyst firm since 1994 when she began as a Research Analyst. She most recently covered OSS/BSS, Billing, Subscriber Data Management, Service Delivery Platform, voice infrastructure markets and related software investments by service providers. A replacement […]

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