pimg src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/McAndrewsB_web.jpg" alt="image" align="right" width="140" height="148" /Buried in the release that a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-microsoft-digital-head-exists-or-will-by-next-week-qi-lu-likely-to-be-n/" title="Yahoo's Qi Lu is joining Microsoft "Yahoo's Qi Lu is joining Microsoft /a as president of its Online Services Group was the news that Brian McAndrews is resigning his post as SVP, Microsoft's Advertiser Publisher Solutions Group. McAndrews, the former CEO of aQuantive, relinquished his title when Microsoft (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=MSFT" class="ticker" title="MSFT"NSDQ: MSFT/a) bought his company for $6 billion in August 2007. /p p -- bA losing battle/b: McAndrews was often mentioned for the role that Qi Lu is taking on, which became open when Kevin Johnson a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-industry-moves-microsofts-kevin-johnson-out-unit-reorg-coming/" title="exited the post"exited the post/a at Microsoft and joined Juniper in July. He had been given high marks for the making aQuantive fit fairly nicely into Microsoft's different culture and structure. Clearly, the choice of Qi Lu over McAndrews means he lost the battle to replace Johnson. Despite his good work, in many ways, McAndrews was considered a longshot. The Microsoft purchase made him very rich, and therefore unlikely to want to work for someone else—especially someone like the hard-to-please Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. McAndrews isn't going anywhere at the moment and will take the next few months to "transition out" of his job. So while he ponders his next move, he would be an interesting—and ironic—candidate for Yahoo's open CEO role. a href="http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/dec08/12-04CorpDec4PR.mspx" title="Release"Release/a /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-microsoft-digital-head-exists-or-will-by-next-week-qi-lu-likely-to-be-n" title="Updated: Microsoft Has Decided On A New Head Of Digital; Names Qi Lu"Updated: Microsoft Has Decided On A New Head Of Digital; Names Qi Lu/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-msft-exec-yusuf-mehdi-upped-to-lead-online-services-but-not-as-presiden"Industry Moves: MSFT's Mehdi Upped To Lead Much Of Online Services—But Not As President: Report/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-microsofts-help-wanted-head-of-advertising-needed-possibly-a-palin"Microsoft's Help Wanted: Head Of Advertising Needed, Possibly A 'Palin'/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-microsoft-shakes-up-online-team-mcandrews-upped-will-he-be-heading-yaho"Microsoft Shakes up Online Team; McAndrews Upped; Will He Be Heading Yahoo?/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-more-changes-coming-at-microsoft-steve-berkowitz-brian-mcandrews-kevin-"More Changes Coming At Microsoft: Steve Berkowitz, Brian McAndrews, Kevin Johnson/a/li /ul p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=BXQCTX"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=BXQCTX" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=MJZnO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=MJZnO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=2pcWO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=2pcWO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=nXO8o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=nXO8o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=UeBpO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=UeBpO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=2I7dO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=2I7dO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/475145288" height="1" width="1"/

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a href="http://adage.com/digital/article.php?article_id=133037"/aNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Microsoft has tapped Qi Lu, an engineering star from Yahoo, as its new head of online services. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/G3qUT49bcojmHIilHeDCvceQgsg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/G3qUT49bcojmHIilHeDCvceQgsg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/adage/complete/~4/PufI9Cnlv4Y" height="1" width="1"/

Microsoft announced the hire of former ten-year Yahoo exec Dr. Qi Lu today as President of their Online Services Group. He’ll report directly to CEO Steve Ballmer.

Here’s the email Ballmer sent to all Microsoft staff forty minutes ago:

From: Steve Ballmer
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:39 PM
To: Microsoft - All Employees (QBDG)
Subject: New Leader of Online Services Group

Search, advertising and online services are critical to Microsoft’s long-term strategy. To succeed, we need the right talent. Today, I’m pleased to announce that Qi Lu will join Microsoft as president of our Online Services Group. Qi will oversee all efforts in search, our online advertising platform, and all of our online information and communications services. Qi will join Microsoft on Jan. 5 and report to me.

Qi is one of the most respected technical minds in the industry. He comes to Microsoft after 10 years at Yahoo, where he most recently served as executive vice president of engineering for all of Yahoo’s search and advertising development efforts. Before joining Yahoo, Qi was a researcher at IBM’s Almaden Research Center. He has a doctorate in computer science from Carnegie Mellon, and he holds 20 U.S. patents.

Qi’s combination of deep technical expertise, proven leadership capability and broad business knowledge is rare in our industry. There is no one better qualified to guide our work to reinvent search and online advertising.

While I’m excited that Qi is joining Microsoft, I’m sorry to share the news that Brian McAndrews has decided to transition out of the company. Brian came to us with the acquisition of aQuantive in 2007. Since then, he has helped build a world-class business in online advertising that provides a solid foundation for future growth. I have great respect for the important contributions Brian has made to Microsoft, and I wish him the very best in the future.

On Monday at 4 p.m. Pacific Time, Qi will join me at Café RedWest for an Employee Town Hall. I encourage you to attend or to watch the webcast. If you have questions for Qi or me, please send them in advance to and we’ll try to answer as many as possible.

Steve

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pimg src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/rnwk_laptop.gif" alt="image" align="right" width="139" height="143" /RealNetworks (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=RNWK" class="ticker" title="RNWK"NSDQ: RNWK/a) is laying off roughly 7.5 percent of its staff, about 130 people across the company, and cutting 30 contract positions and consultants, the Seattle-based company announced in a href="http://investor.realnetworks.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1299933-08-5640" title="an SEC filing"an SEC filing/a this afternoon. From the brief filing (the legal mumbo jumbo is longer than the text):nbsp; "The Company eliminated the foregoing positions to reduce operating costs in light of slowing consumer and business spending due to the current economic downturn. Notwithstanding the reduction in force, the Company expects to achieve record revenue for full year 2008." The filing confirmed a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10113553-36.html" title="an earlier report"an earlier report/a by CNET News. /p p From a href="http://realnetworksblog.com/?p=175" title="the company blog"the company blog/a, a positive spin on layoffs: "To put this in context, we still expect to report record revenue for the year, and as our strong balance sheet would suggest, we are well positioned to take advantage of strategic growth and investment opportunities as they arise." Also, some compassion from the company: "Departing employees can conduct job searches for other positions at Real or elsewhere from their offices here, or, if they prefer, from home.nbsp; Everyone will remain on the payroll through the end of the year, plus each will be offered a cash severance package based on their length of service.nbsp; Because of the unusual and difficult economic times, these severance packages include outplacement services and six months of COBRA healthcare coverage." /p p Also, in related news, the RNWK-Viacom (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=VIA" class="ticker" title="VIA"NYSE: VIA/a) online music JV Rhapsody America will not be shut down its NYC offices, contrary to a href="http://gawker.com/5101778/mtv-closing-rhapsody-office" title="earlier reports"earlier reports/a this morning. The company has denied it, but there have been layoffs at the music JV, and according a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10113553-36.html" title="to News.com"to News.com/a, they were cut from the JV's office space at Viacom headquarters. It did a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-in-other-news-realnetworks-to-lay-off-24-employees-in-music-division-re" title="do some layoffs"do some layoffs/a from this division earlier in January. 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Microsoft says it's bringing in a former Yahoo search executive to lead its online push. Microsoft Corp. says Qi (pronounced 'CHEE') Lu will be president of its Online Services Group. He'll be responsible for search and online advertising, where Microsoft lags far behind the leader, Google Inc.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=KkRQO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=KkRQO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=8JVGo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=8JVGo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=TgwUo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=TgwUo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ibtimes/tech/~4/475104379" height="1" width="1"/

Whither BitTorrent? The company is picking itself up and putting itself back together after recent exec departures and layoffs. And it has finally shed its consumer business, the download store that had helped kicked off Hollywood’s last few years of digital dealmaking, but never did much after that.

We just got off the phone with BitTorrent VP of Marketing Simon Morris, who filled us in on the company’s changing strategy, as well as the recent hubbub about it moving away from the P2P protocol to one that would interfere with VoIP and other activity. Morris said that following the company’s multiple rounds of layoffs, BitTorrent is now “in safe shape” to move forward. A lightly edited transcript follows.

NewTeeVee: So, I saw that the Torrent Entertainment Network is no longer up. When did that shut down?

Simon Morris: I think it was Nov. 17, a little over two weeks ago.

NewTeeVee: Was that due to lack of use?

Morris: It was due to two things. We found it very hard to make it a profitable business endeavor. If you look at the things we’re trying to do as we shrink down the company due to the economic environment, we’re experts in content delivery over the internet. With the Torrent Entertainment Network we were stepping into a new domain of merchandising of consumer entertainment products. In many ways, the retrenchment of the company has been really focusing on what we’re good at.

NewTeeVee: Can you give specific numbers on how many users or downloads you had?

Morris: No. It wasn’t sufficiently successful for us. We investigated all sorts of different approaches: try before you buy, download to own, download to rent, ad-supported streaming. Ultimately, I wouldn’t say us retrenching away from it is any indication it can’t be done, it’s just pure resources.

NewTeeVee: It seems from your shutdown FAQ that you’re doing a good job of taking care of obligations to former customers.

Morris: We have DRM servers; we’ll just leave them up. It seems from a PR point of view far more sensible to leave those things in place.

NewTeeVee: So, what’s happening with your remaining businesses? How is the P2P CDN business going?

Morris: We’re focusing both on our consumer BitTorrent client but also on our DNA content delivery service. The client is more popular than ever. Though I don’t know if you saw the article in The Register this week? We’re now talking to the guy about writing a followup. You will find his opinion may have changed.

NewTeeVee: That was about moving to the UTP protocol?

Morris: It was about moving from P2P to UTP. The tone of the article and the hysteria surrounding it was about creating a greedy protocol to bring the Internet to its knees, and in fact it’s the opposite, we’re working on a more polite, gentler protocol. We’ve briefed the ISPs, including Comcast, and we’re ultimately not trying to do something that would damage ourselves.

NewTeeVee: And as for the DNA product?

Morris: The DNA client also has the benefit of this polite protocol, which has actually already been implemented in the DNA client. The new protocol is UTP, based on UDP, but with a very important layer built on top that gives it particular congestion control.

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Capito will be moving from the UK to Dearborn, Michigan before he takes the reigns in January next year, and we're hoping to secure some time with the new exec to hear his plans for the future of Ford's performance products.br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="%GalleryURL%"2009 Ford Focus RS/a/strong/pa href="/gallery/2009-ford-focus-rs-3/901272/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/07/09focusrs_7495a_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/2009-ford-focus-rs-3/901269/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/07/09focusrs_7490a_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/2009-ford-focus-rs-3/901276/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/07/09focusrs_7509a_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/2009-ford-focus-rs-3/901274/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/07/09focusrs_7502a_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/2009-ford-focus-rs-3/901275/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/07/09focusrs_7506a_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="%GalleryURL%"Ford Fiesta ST Mountune/a/strong/pa href="/gallery/ford-fiesta-st-mountune/571098/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/fiesta_st_mountune_01_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/ford-fiesta-st-mountune/571096/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/fiesta_st_mountune_02_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/ford-fiesta-st-mountune/571101/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/fiesta_st_mountune_03_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/ford-fiesta-st-mountune/571100/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/fiesta_st_mountune_04_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/ford-fiesta-st-mountune/571099/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/fiesta_st_mountune_05_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divpa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/ford-names-new-head-of-svt-and-team-rs/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emFord names new head of SVT and TeamRS, performance models to be developed globally/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/ford-names-new-head-of-svt-and-team-rs/"Ford names new head of SVT and TeamRS, performance models to be developed globally/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:15:00 EST. 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pMicrosoft's quest to find a digital head will end in a rather technical choice: former Yahoo EVP of engineering for Search and Ad Tech Qi Lu, according a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081204/former-yahoo-tech-star-qi-lu-likely-to-be-named-microsofts-digital-head-by-next-week/" title="to Kara"to Kara/a. The final details of his contract are being ironed out, and could be announced by next week, the story says. This position has been vacant since Kevin Johnson left and joined Juniper. /p p bThe logic for hiring Lu/b: since a lot of Microsoft's future rests on winning in the search and search ad space and catching up with Google and Yahoo, Lu is also well suited for the position. But it is still a curious choice, as Lu lacks the business acumen to drive MSFT out of its digital/online troubles. As a result, he could be paired with another senior MSFT business exec, and that's still being decided. He will be overseeing three major egos at MSFT: Satya Nadella, Yusuf Mehdi, and Brian McAndrews. McAndrews was thought to be a front runner to run the merged Yahoo-MSN group if MSFT was successful in buying Yahoo, earlier this year. Likely McAndrews could be that business partner to work with Lu, the story speculates. /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-msn-adds-to-the-confusion-does-some-more-reorg" title="Industry Moves: MSN Does More Reorg; Portal Remains A Mystery"Industry Moves: MSN Does More Reorg; Portal Remains A Mystery/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-industry-moves-former-time-vet-robin-domeniconi-to-head-up-msft-ad-sale/"Industry Moves: Former Time Vet Robin Domeniconi To Head Up MSFT Ad Sales In U.S./a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-interview-jeff-dossett-svp-us-audience-yahoo-his-nex/" Interview: Jeff Dossett, SVP-U.S. Audience, Yahoo: His 'Next Mount Everest'/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-confirms-that-moore-is-leaving-picks-up-msn-vet-dossett-to-us-au/"Yahoo Confirms That Moore Is Leaving; Picks Up MSN Vet Dossett To Head U.S. Audiences/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-industry-moves-microsofts-kevin-johnson-out-unit-reorg-coming/"Industry Moves: Microsoft's Kevin Johnson Out; Reorg Of Platform And Services; Ballmer Memo/a/li /ul p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=uFUP4G"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=uFUP4G" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=G8FLO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=G8FLO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=iA8UO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=iA8UO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=NOH0o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=NOH0o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=0fnNO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=0fnNO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=2sdDO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=2sdDO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/474853430" height="1" width="1"/

Former Yahoo search executive Qi Lu is expected to be named as head or co-head of Microsofts online efforts, according to All Things D.

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a href="http://www.gramotunes.com/Arthur_Russell_Close_My_Eyes.mp3"Arthur Russell - "Close My Eyes"/a. When I think about the special light of human beings, the angels' kiss-on-the-lips, the soul or spirit that probably-doesn't-but-maybe-does hide in our chests, I think of Ithis/i. The way these modest parts - a song sung plainly, a strummed guitar, - can feel as lovely as dawn, as beautiful as night, as sensuous as laying in the fields with a lover, listening to the corn grow. Why are we so blessed that this unsophisticated, basic thing is able to touch us? I can think of no answer except that perhaps we were given a gift. a href="http://www.gramotunes.com/Arthur_Russell_Close_My_Eyes.mp3"Arthur Russell - "What It's Like"/a. And okay so let's fast-forward to the thousandth day that they lay in the fields. Let's fast-forward to a decade after they first rested in the tall grass. He calls her into the sanctuary. I"Kate, I've been touched by the Lord,"/i he says. I"I don't need you anymore."/i This sounds like a horror but really it's just honesty. It's just the truth, grasped at. What follows is sloppy country blues, anguish and confusion, the Reverend rending his clothes and crying, I"I didn't know that love would strike me blind"./i But I think Kate, his lover - she leaves long before the sax solo. She leaves before he begins to weep. Kate, she learned long ago. IThis is what it's like./i [a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001G1FLEC/ref=nosim/tangmonkey-20"buy iLove Is Overtaking Me/i/a, a remarkable collection of songs by Arthur Russell] --- Elsewhere: Jez Burrows is a href="http://www.jezburrows.com/modern/"now shipping/a screenprints of his beautiful IDestroyer's Rubies/i "information graphic". But more beautiful still - and I'm very belated in writing about it, - is his and Lizzy Stewart's a href="http://www.singstatistics.co.uk/"II Am The Friction/i/a. They are stories inspired by drawings amp; drawings inspired by stories, and while the works are funny and weird and melancholy, more than anything it feels like a love-letter from friend to friend, a shared smile, the kind of collaboration that comes from many hours by the same lamps. It's a handsome thing to hold in your hand, to read and enjoy, but it also makes you long to slip into the moments of its making; eyeglints, gifts, ink on fingers. Rest in peace, a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSDeROnTq64"Odetta/a. pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/saidthegramophone/stg?a=nMGTtd"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/saidthegramophone/stg?i=nMGTtd" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/saidthegramophone/stg/~4/474981401" height="1" width="1"/

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=4935bbfb14b9b9c000f3da44maxX=356maxY=326" border="0" alt="manian.jpg" title="manian.jpg" width="356" height="326" /Broadcom (BRCM) SVP Vahid Manian said on his corporate bio he had a B.S.E.E. and an M.B.A. from UC Irvine, but it turns out he a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/broadcom-svp-claims-mba-never-finished-his-bachelors-brcm"never even finished his bachelor's/a. Despite the stories of a href="http://businesssheet.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/pervy-henry-nicholas-details-in-vanity-fair-broadcom-billionaire-s-hookers-coke-and-underground-lair"parties with drugs and hookers/a swirling around Broadcom's management team, someone there sobered up enough to hear about the scandal. Manian has been a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204sid=aT6goyQfmARsrefer=technology"fired/a./p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/broadcom-svp-claims-mba-never-finished-his-bachelors-brcm"Broadcom SVP Claims MBA, Never Finished His Bachelors/abr /a href="http://businesssheet.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/pervy-henry-nicholas-details-in-vanity-fair-broadcom-billionaire-s-hookers-coke-and-underground-lair"More Pervy Henry Nicholas Details: Broadcom Billionaire's Hookers, Coke, And Underground Lair/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/gBbwZLol9x4yCFwLF8quFBAHxwQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/gBbwZLol9x4yCFwLF8quFBAHxwQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=7eARP6su"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=7eARP6su" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=sXtPMal6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Ib3UvTR3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=qJYmglTV"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=qJYmglTV" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=gTZIpSaD"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=gefyAvwM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=eXGNUaYF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=E3W26kVh"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/X4m766tgrEU" height="1" width="1"/

div align="center"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/03/wagoner-driving-volt-mule-to-congress/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/wagoner-money-doors.jpg" alt="" //abr //div After arriving at the first Senate hearing by private jet, GM's Rick Wagoner is looking to feign innovation and a commitment to frugality by driving a Chevy a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/volt"Volt/a prototype to Washington and past the camera crews awaiting his arrival. The obvious stunt meant to reverse public opinion in GM's bid for bailout cash will put Wagoner behind the wheel of the Volt prototype for just a fraction of the 355 mile journey. Good thing too, because without the a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/better-places-1-billion-electric-vehicle-grid-endorsed-by-bay/"infrastructure required /ato a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/gm-teams-with-utilities-to-develop-electric-car-charging-infrast/"support electric vehicles/a, Wagoner's Volt would only last about 40 miles on battery before the fuel burning engine kicked in to maintain enough charge to drive the powertrain. Instead, the GM exec will begin his journey from Detroit in a hybrid Malibu capable of just 24/32 MPG city/highway. We just hope that the Saturns and dilapidated Chevettes he sees abandoned along America's rust-belt provides the man with ample reminder of GM's previous failures to revolutionize from within. Oh, sorry Rick was that too mean?br /br /P.S. The car pictured above is a non-functional 2011 Volt prototype that will be parked in DC upon Wagoner's arrival.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20081203/BUSINESS01/81203081"Detroit Free Press/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/transportation/" rel="tag"Transportation/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/gm-chief-to-drive-chevy-volt-in-search-of-18-billion-handout/"GM chief to drive Chevy Volt in search of $18 billion handout/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:48:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/03/wagoner-driving-volt-mule-to-congress/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/gm-chief-to-drive-chevy-volt-in-search-of-18-billion-handout/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1391049/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/gm-chief-to-drive-chevy-volt-in-search-of-18-billion-handout/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/jW7nNnd7wdGpupsKn1EGxhPmkTI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/jW7nNnd7wdGpupsKn1EGxhPmkTI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=6JQuG7Vt"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=6JQuG7Vt" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=QjbQ0Plw"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=QjbQ0Plw" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/nL-bUmLhq-k" height="1" width="1"/

After arriving at the first Senate hearing by private jet, GM's Rick Wagoner is looking to feign innovation and a commitment to frugality by driving a Chevy Volt prototype to Washington and past the camera crews awaiting his arrival. The obvious stunt meant to reverse public opinion in GM's bid for bailout cash will put Wagoner behind the wheel of the Volt prototype for just a fraction of the 355 mile journey. Good thing too, because without the infrastructure required to support electric vehicles, Wagoner's Volt would only last about 40 miles on battery before the fuel burning engine kicked in to maintain enough charge to drive the powertrain. Instead, the GM exec will begin his journey from Detroit in a hybrid Malibu capable of just 24/32 MPG city/highway. We just hope that the Saturns and dilapidated Chevettes he sees abandoned along America's rust-belt provides the man with ample reminder of GM's previous failures to revolutionize from within. Oh, sorry Rick was that too mean?

P.S. The car pictured above is a non-functional 2011 Volt prototype that will be parked in DC upon Wagoner's arrival.

[Via Detroit Free Press]

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pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=4937d2c514b9b93000d5a898maxX=150maxY=190" border="0" alt="bostock_roy.jpg" title="bostock_roy.jpg" width="150" height="190" /Yahoo (YHOO) chairman Roy Bostock says the company will have a new CEO before the end of the year, a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081203/yahoo-board-casts-about-for-new-ceo-no-committee-six-criteria-and-aol-merger-ready/"sources tell Kara Swisher/a. Perhaps someone should remind Roy that's only four weeks away and that he better get cracking./p pA good first step, which Kara says hasn't happened yet, would be organizing a search committee to find this company savior. So far it's just Roy and fellow board member Gary Wilson going over names that headhunter firm Heidrick Struggles comes up with./p pKara says Roy and Gary have come up with strongsix criteria for the incoming CEO/strong, however:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"The first is that the candidate have 'extensive' experience as the CEO of a public company. Another calls for media and advertising expertise. And mergers and acquisitions experience. Also strategic skills./p p"Tall order," as Kara notes, and indeed. But have we mentioned we (a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/choose-yahoo-s-new-ceo-final-round-vote-here-"and our polled readers/a) like former DoubleClick CEO and current Google (GOOG) exec David Rosenblatt for the job?/p pBy the criteria, he only fails in that DoubleClick was a private concern when he ran it. But the media and advertising company was the size of a public company, and Rosenblatt wielded plenty of strategic skills turning it around and getting it acquired by Google for $3.1 billion./p pstrongSee Also:/stronga href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/yahoo-ceo-update----rosensweig-conspiracy-editionhell"strongbr //strongYahoo CEO Update: Rosensweig Conspiracy Edition (YHOO)/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/EEYIOiBCeYdsg1Zzmq0zH-igqyw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/EEYIOiBCeYdsg1Zzmq0zH-igqyw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=8TTQ20kb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=8TTQ20kb" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=DdNZkXEA"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=QzaKre15"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=sXL4ZAe0"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=sXL4ZAe0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=WyZ043Ze"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=dZuCsFjG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=IZKb47pa"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=iIUIhVvR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/ss14pyw0Dwc" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrids/Alternative/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/green/" rel="tag"Green/a/pa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/12/03/calcars-us-customers-could-prepay-for-plug-in-hybrids-at-10-00/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2008/12/phev-comix.jpg" alt="" //abr /br /Here's an idea: a target="_blank" title="View CalCars: US customers could prepay for plug-in hybrids at $10,000 each on Autoblog Green" href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/12/03/calcars-us-customers-could-prepay-for-plug-in-hybrids-at-10-00/"prepay /aa target="_blank" title="View CalCars: US customers could prepay for plug-in hybrids at $10,000 each on Autoblog Green" href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/12/03/calcars-us-customers-could-prepay-for-plug-in-hybrids-at-10-00/"$10,000 /aa target="_blank" title="View CalCars: US customers could prepay for plug-in hybrids at $10,000 each on Autoblog Green" href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/12/03/calcars-us-customers-could-prepay-for-plug-in-hybrids-at-10-00/"for a plug-in hybrid/a. When would you get it? By 2012, at the latest, and in the process you'd be saving Detroit. That's the idea from a target="_blank" title="View CalCars: US customers could prepay for plug-in hybrids at $10,000 each on Autoblog Green" href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/12/03/calcars-us-customers-could-prepay-for-plug-in-hybrids-at-10-00/"CalCars/a anyway. Other news from the Electric Drive Transportation Association expo includes a proposal from the a target="_blank" title="View EDTA 2008: Medium Speed Vehicle Coalition makes the case for 35 mph electric cars