Another one of Zynga's recent departures has landed. Wilson Kriegel, who was OMGPOP's chief revenue officer until the Draw Something maker was acquired for $210 million in cash and retention, is taking a president and chief operating officer role at New York-based Paltalk. He left Zynga, which bought OMGPOP, earlier this year, following a slew of other execu... Read more
Sify Appoints C.R Rao As Its Chief Operating Officer NASDAQ-listed Sify Technologies has appointed C.R Rao as its Chief Operating Officer (COO). Rao replaces CVS Suri who has been Sifys COO since August 2006. The company said that Rao will be responsib... Read more
Facebook Ads Startup SocialWire Raises Another $1M, Chief Re... SocialWire, a startup building Facebook ads for retailers, has raised $1 million in "seed extension" funding. The company is also announcing that Chief Revenue Officer Bob Buch, a former exec at Aol a... Read more
Mobile Payment Startup Payvia Buys Mogreet To Add Messaging-... Some more consolidation afoot in the worlds of mobile marketing and mobile payments: Payvia, one of the many startups working in the area of carrier-based mobile billing, is buying Mogreet, a mobile m... Read more
News Corp COO Threatens To Pull Fox Broadcast Signal If Aere... Could Fox remove its broadcast signals and become available only as part of a cable subscription? That's one possibility that News Corp. COO Chase Carey offered up as a business solution if it and oth... Read more
What Zynga really wants from OMGPOPs Draw Something What Zynga acquired from OMGPOP isn't just a hit game or the team that built it. It's not buying ad or sales revenue from Draw Something users. What Zynga's really buying is a huge engaged audience th... Read more
Nextpeer Pledges To Make Any Mobile Game As Social As OMGPOP... There were plenty of other Pictionary-like games in the iTunes app store before OMGPOP's Draw Something. But the secret ingredient behind Draw Something's runaway success was its very social, asynchro... Read more
TaskRabbit Nabs Ex-Googler Stacy Brown-Philpot For COO Spot href="http://www.taskrabbit.com">TaskRabbit, the San Francisco-based startup that runs an online marketplace for outsourcing errands and tasks, is beefing up its executive team. The company has hired ... Read more
Uber Hires European Kees Koolen As COO, To Help It Scale Glo... Car service dispatch company Uber has hired a European Chief Operating Officer, making the announcement today at LeWeb London. Kees Koolen, who scaled booking.com to $9 billion in revenue during his... Read more
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