techcrunch.com - 3/4/2009
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When a smart, ambitious executive who isn’t the CEO leaves a company, it isn’t necessarily a sign of trouble. Sometimes that executive isn’t performing all that well, or he/she wants to see if they can make it at their own startup where they call the shots. Top execs leaving ...
kara.allthingsd.com - 3/3/2009
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Amit Kapur , who was elevated to COO
of MySpace early last year, will be stepping down...
from the position. It’s not clear whether he will remain at the company, but sources say he’s interested in pursuing other entrepreneurial ventures. ...
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Kapur Stepping Down as MySpace COO
myspace.com - 3/4/2009
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myspace.com —
I am Generation Forward. I look not backward,
but forward. I reject the selfish ways of the...
past. The environment, the economy, our very security... they're the consequences of people not thinking about consequences. The world I'm inheriting makes me ...
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Citi Forward by MySpace
valleywag.gawker.com - 3/4/2009
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Amit Kapur , the 27-year-old No. 2 executive
at MySpace , is leaving , according to a...
memo from MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe . It looks like he's planning a startup: He's taking two executives with him. Kapur has good timing — or at least a ...
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MySpace Memo: Three Top Execs Leaving
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Internet Evolution: —
... interest in giving up its search business. Why, you inquire? Because the data the search business provides is "extremely important" to Yahoo and information the company has to have. Now if they can just turn all that data into a global database of cash-generating intentions. Ah shucks, I'm sure they'd settle for even just 20 percent search share. Meanwhile, back at the TechCrunch ranch, a newly reinvigorated Mike Arrington explains that three key MySpace executives are voting with their feet and are outta there . The three (COO, SVP Product Strategy, and VP ...
MySpaceID: More social content for the web and a way forward for MySpace
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... The key will be execution. The departure of product leaders is a bad sign — although Facebook and other rivals have seen similar attrition in the last couple of years. One key, as TechCrunch notes, is for MySpace to be given full leeway to go after these opportunities within parent company News Corp.’s organizational structure. Rumors have circulated that MySpace cofounders DeWolfe and Tom Anderson (now the company’s president) may leave later this year — ...
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