Posts Tagged with ‘corporations’

Facebook’s gotten some major flack for its controversial Beacon utility. The addition was made to the network some weeks ago, and since then the company has been forced to contend with a barrage of less-than-sparkling reviews from tech critics, frosty feedback from annoyed users having witnessed their product consumption choices writ large upon their pages and RSS feeds, and a loud and all-encompassing uproar from the privacy rights advocacy space.
And as of Thursday afternoon, the social network reversed course. [...]

Sometimes I feel like the official reporter of Internet TV leader Joost because their news always seems to gravitate in my direction. Today Joost announced former Cisco Systems executive and expert deal maker Mike Volpi as their CEO.
Volpi was the senior VP and General Manager of Cisco's routing and service provider group, and he helped acquire more than 70 companies for the Cisco system during his tenure there. Volpi will replace founding CEO Fredrik de Wahl and will assume the helm of Joost [...]