The mobile payments company has tapped former Blizzard Entertainment CFO Amrita Ahuja.
View More Square finds its Sarah Friar replacement with new CFO Amrita AhujaCategory: Personnel
Netflix hires Activision CFO & former Disney exec Spencer Neumann as its new CFO
Netflix has officially confirmed the hiring of its new Chief Financial Officer Spencer Neumann, formerly CFO at Activision Blizzard. The announcement directly follows reports from Reuters and The Wall Street Journal, which said Netflix had poached Neumann from Activision and would start him in his new position this year. CNBC on Wednesday reported Neumann had been fired from Activision two days […]
View More Netflix hires Activision CFO & former Disney exec Spencer Neumann as its new CFOHQ Trivia launches HQ Words tonight under reinstalled CEO
HQ’s expansion beyond trivia emerges from beta tonight, but the question is whether it’s different and accessible enough to revive the startup’s growth. HQ Words opens to everyone with today’s 6:30pm pacific broadcast within the HQ Trivia app after several weeks of closed beta testing of the Wheel Of Fortune-style game. The launch will be […]
View More HQ Trivia launches HQ Words tonight under reinstalled CEOApple’s AI boss has been bumped up to the company’s executive team
Apple has just confirmed that John Giannandrea, the ex-Googler machine learning veteran who joined the company back in April, has joined the likes of Tim Cook, Jony Ive, Eddy Cue and Angela Ahrendts on the executive team. His role on the executive team will be “Senior Vice President of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Strategy,” […]
View More Apple’s AI boss has been bumped up to the company’s executive teamLyft is getting more serious about autonomous vehicle safety with new hire
Lyft today announced the hiring of John Maddox, founder of the American Center for Mobility and previous associate administrator of vehicle safety research at the U.S. Department of Transportation, to lead its autonomous vehicle safety and compliance efforts. At Lyft, Maddox will be the company’s first senior director of autonomous safety and compliance. “I’ve dedicated […]
View More Lyft is getting more serious about autonomous vehicle safety with new hireHQ Trivia and Vine co-founder Colin Kroll found dead of suspected overdose
Colin Kroll, the 35-year-old co-founder and CEO of the HQ Trivia app, has been found dead of an apparent drug overdose in his apartment, TechCrunch has confirmed. A spokesman for the NYPD told us that a female called 911 for a wellness check on Kroll’s apartment and he was found dead inside at 08:00 hours […]
View More HQ Trivia and Vine co-founder Colin Kroll found dead of suspected overdoseVerizon announces 10,400 employees will voluntarily leave the company
Verizon today announced 10,400 employees are taking buyouts to leave the company. That’s about 7 percent of the company’s worldwide workforce. This is part of an effort to trim the telecom giant’s workforce ahead of its push toward 5G. I still have a job. Everyone at TechCrunch, which is part of the Verizon Media Group, […]
View More Verizon announces 10,400 employees will voluntarily leave the companyQualcomm lays off 269 employees in North Carolina and California
Qualcomm’s struggling data center business was hit another massive blow as the company laid off hundreds. The news, first revealed by the Information, has since been confirmed by TechCrunch. The chipmaker laid off 269 employees in all, including 144 in Raleigh, North Carolina, where its data center business is located, and an additional 125 in […]
View More Qualcomm lays off 269 employees in North Carolina and CaliforniaLightspeed hires 5 new partners from Slack, Twitter and more
Lightspeed has announced several new partners, including Slack’s former head of growth, who joins the firm’s enterprise team.
View More Lightspeed hires 5 new partners from Slack, Twitter and moreMagic Leap loses two women from top executive positions
Magic Leap’s executive team is pretty heavy on the dudes these days. The augmented reality startup’s two female C-suite executives, Chief Marketing Officer Brenda Freeman and Chief Business Officer Rachna Bhasin, have recently both stepped back into advisory roles at the company, TechCrunch has learned. Freeman joined the startup two years ago from National Geographic. […]
View More Magic Leap loses two women from top executive positionsRevcontent names Omar Nicola as its new CEO
Content recommendation company Revcontent has a new chief executive: Omar Nicola, formerly the CEO of mobile advertising company Kixer. Revcontent’s founder and outgoing CEO John Lemp will remain involved as chairman of the board of directors. “Omar is the perfect choice to take over as CEO of Revcontent, because of his wealth of experience and […]
View More Revcontent names Omar Nicola as its new CEOJina Choi, the head of the SEC’s San Francisco office, is leaving the agency
Silicon Valley companies know to operate in the gray might be heaving a small sigh of relief this morning. Yesterday, afternoon, the Securities & Exchange Commission announced that Jina Choi, the head of its San Francisco office, is retiring after 16 years with the agency. The release about Choi’s move is glowing, though it doesn’t […]
View More Jina Choi, the head of the SEC’s San Francisco office, is leaving the agency