Musical Chairs.The new-media industry seems impervious to the rule of thumb that the job market cools during the holiday period. Go.com's former president of e-commerce, Chuck Davis  This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.Content may change as the election approaches. Charles E. , has joined BizRate.com as its president and chief executive. Three-year old, L.A-based BizRate.com specializes in gathering and aggregating customer satisfaction information on thousands of e-commerce sites. Davis succeeds BizRate.com co-founder Farhad Mohit, who will become BizRate's chairman and chief strategic officer. Meanwhile, Kenneth Wong, former president of Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Imagineering, has been named chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Pop.com, the two-month-old Internet entertainment company founded by Steven Spielberg Noun 1. Steven Spielberg - United States filmmaker (born in 1947) Spielberg , Ron Howard and Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953 in Seattle, Washington) is an American entrepreneur. With Bill Gates, he formed Microsoft. . L.A.-based Pop.com will feature short live-action and animated films on its Web site, which is expected to debut this spring. Wong resigned from Disney in October. Steve Hansen, the former GeoCities chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. who helped navigate the company's acquisition by Yahoo!, has been named chief executive officer for L.A.-based Tonos.com. Tonos is yet another Internet music news and entertainment company, but is backed by the substantial street credentials of the prolific and award-decorated songwriter Kenneth "Babyface" Edwards. Fellow songwriters David Foster and Carole Bayer Sager also are behind Tonos, which is expected to launch online in early 2000. Jim Rosenthal has been promoted to president of New Line Cinema's new-media division. Rosenthal previously held the position of executive vice president of business development for New Line, where he helped build its new-media endeavors. Rosenthal is now charged with making the Internet a more important part of New Line's entertainment business. And finally, Robert Tercek has left Sony Pictures Entertainment to join San Diego-based PacketVideo Corp., a wireless multimedia software and services company. Tercek, who was senior vice president of digital media at Columbia TriStar Television Columbia TriStar Television, Inc. was the third name of the television studio Screen Gems, adopted with the Columbia-TriStar merger of 1991 and last used in 2002. Columbia TriStar Television was launched in 1994 as a joint venture between Columbia Pictures Television and , founded Sony's interactive TV production division and is widely considered one of L.A.'s savviest new-media minds. |
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