August Hires: Yahoo! Nabs ComScore Man; Google Snaps Up Linux Programmer
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Written By Reprise Media | August 14, 2006 | Share This
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Two search hires in one day…well, we won’t call it a frenzy - yet.
First, Yahoo! hired Peter Daboll away from ComScore Networks, where he was president and CEO of the firm’s Media Metrix division. And, says ClickZ, Yahoo! created a brand new position just for him; he’ll become Yahoo!’s “chief of insights and head of global market research.” Says Daboll:
“This position was created to bring together the external world of market research and the wealth of internal data that Yahoo collects…They’ve already been doing that, but they wanted to bring in someone at a more senior role to pull the pieces together.”
Daboll hopes his status as a “Yahoo! outsider” helps bring a “fresh perspective” to his new team, but he should also beware Yahoo!’s gentle hazing rituals. Actually, we don’t know if Yahoo! has any kind of initiation rites, but doesn’t it seem like a company with a name like that ought to? They should probably involve some sort of embarrassing hat.
What were we saying again? Google announced a splashy hire of its own today. They lured programmer Andrew Morton from Digeo Interactive, where he worked while drawing a paycheck from Open Source Development Labs, carrying out (stay with us) his duties as a close deputy to…Linux guru Linus Torvalds!
News.com says that Morton will still be involved with maintaining the 2.6 Linux kernel (on which most up-to-date Linux products are based), while working at Google. Says Morton, “It is beneficial to me (and to Linux) that I be in day-to-day contact with people who use Linux for real things. Hence Google is a good all-round fit.”
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