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Yahoo Appoints Cost-Cutter Tim Morse as CFO

Yahoo Appoints Cost-Cutter Tim Morse as CFO

Internet giant Yahoo has ended its three-and-a-half month search to find a replacement for CFO Blake Jorgensen: the company has appointed Altera’s Tim Morse as chief financial officer. Morse will start on June 17 and take over full CFO responsibilities on July 1.

"Tim has a proven ability to translate strategy into structure, process, and execution, and I am delighted that he will be joining my leadership team to help drive Yahoo’s growth," said Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, in a statement. "With his passion for operational finance, global experience, and expertise simplifying complex organizations and managing growth, Tim is a natural fit for Yahoo."

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Nine New Members For Symbian Foundation

Nine New Members For Symbian Foundation

For an organization that’s barely two weeks old, the Symbian Foundation is flourishing. The Nokia-led group, which was formed to help develop and open-source Symbian over the next two years, has just added nine more members to its original 10, and claim that there’s interest from more than 150 other companies.

The original group – Nokia, Symbian, Motorola, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone – came together with the intent to develop and open-source Symbian, and also bring other, Symbian-derived platforms into the OS, according to ZDNet.

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My Damn Channel Adds Two Shows

My Damn Channel Adds Two Shows

If the Hollywood writers’ strike has got you down—and let’s remember the last WGA strike in 1988 lasted six months!—then the recently launched alternative My Damn Channel has two new original shows which might help while away some of life’s more aimless moments. Launched back in August, My Damn Channel is the brainchild of MTV and CBS radio executive Rob Barnett, and aims to tap into the demand for online video by offering A-list content freed from the constraints of typical television and radio programming. The service debuted with content from veteran comedian Harry Shearer (The Simpsons,Spinal Tap, and a million other things), and now is adding two new episodic comedy series from creative studio Big Fat Brain Institute: Itty Bitty Liddy and Tim After Tim.

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iVillage Moving to NBC’s Small Screen

Can an online community be the basis for a successful television show? The suits at America’s last-place broadcast network want to find out: NBC Universal announced today it plans to base a new television show based on iVillage Internet community geared towards women. NBC Univeral acquired iVillage for $600 million in March of 2006, and has consistently tagged the property as an important part of its online strategy.  Read more...

Orange Unveils 3G Phones

“This is just the start of the 3G evolution,” said Orange UK’s new Chief Executive, Bernard Ghillebaert, as the company sought to match arch-rival Vodafone Group Plc’s offering. But analysts said customer targets for a company with more than 52 million customers were cautious.

Orange’s 3G phones, which promise services such as quality music and video, movie clips, TV and speedy mobile Web access, will cost 199-399 euros in France and from zero to 119.99 pounds in Britain from Thursday. Monthly tariffs begin at 55 euros in France and a relatively aggressive 30 pounds in Britain.  Read more...

RealNetworks Signs New Carriers

Spain’s Telefonica Moviles, Italy’s Wind and TIM, Britain’s 02 and Sweden’s TeliaSonera have chosen RealNetworks software to send video and music to mobile phones. Real earlier signed agreements with U.S.-based carriers AT&T Wireless and Sprint.

Read the whole story at Reuters Technology.

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