Maveron’s Debra Somberg has moved to Germany where her husband has accepted a faculty position at the University of Hamburg’s medicine department. The former investment banker, who joined the Seattle venture capital firm in 2000 as a managing partner, plans to continue with the firm as a venture partner. In that role, Somberg will continue to advise companies and sit [...]
It may not be the stuff of tabloid headlines, but Amazon.com and Target could be headed for splitsville, according to new research report. For years, Amazon.com has run Target’s website, even as it’s lost other big enterprise customers like Toys "R" Us and the Borders book chain. Now an analyst is questioning the long-term prospects [...]
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Maria Martinez, the corporate vice president in charge of the big Microsoft Services division, is leaving the company. Microsoft confirmed the move in response to our inquiry this morning, saying Martinez would be replaced by Kathleen Hogan, current corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Customer Service & Support
Microsoft Services is the part of the company that [...]
Matt Heaton knows what it takes to build a social networking platform for a targeted audience. After all, he co-founded the popular Active Rain real estate network in 2003 — a Bellevue network that boasts more than 150,000 real estate professionals as members.
Now, Heaton — who left his day-to-day duties at Active Rain last summer [...]
Tech business tea-leaves readers were sent a-Twittering Monday that Facebook either is ‘” or isn’t ‘” gearing up for a Wall Street debut following the appointment of a new chief financial officer who spent 15 years at Genentech., more and Facebook picks David Ebersman as new CFO NEW YORK — David Ebersman, a former executive at [...]
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