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More Than Half Of Executives Under 40 Say They Use Twitter Daily

Forbes and Google have released a new report called The Rise of the Digital C-Suite: How Executives Locate and Filter Business Information. It’s a fascinating read–mostly because it highlights the difference in internet habits of C-level executives,  based on their age. Why is this important? Because those executives that are under 40 will likely, in the next 5-10 years, be the ones taking over the CEO role.

MySpace Expands Executive Roster

As part of the shakeup that ousted co-founder Chris DeWolfe and ushered in former Project Playlist and Facebook's Owen Van Natta as the new CEO, MySpace has expanded its management team with two key hires. Michael Jones who comes from Userplane and AOL has been named Chief Operating Officer and Jason Hirschhorn joins as Chief Product Officer after a stints at Sling Media and MTV Networks. From the press release:

Yahoo No Longer Delicious For Schachter

The founder of bookmarking service Delicious, Joshua Schachter, plans to follow several other executives out the door at Yahoo.

Two More Executive Types To Leave Yahoo

We haven’t seen a single story this quarter about former employees trying to upstage the big search engines.  Nonetheless, we’ll bet Yahoo is thankful for whatever non-compete clauses are in place, as Bharath Kadaba, a VP of media engineering, and Rachel Glaser, a senior VP of operations finance, should soon depart.

WebTrends CMO Departs

Nov 1st I reported about the management shakeup at Webtrends. The I did a follow-up after talking to several employees of Webtrends regarding these changes.

UK Very Attuned to Social Networks

The UK has the most social networkers in Europe, with almost a fifth of all internet users regularly visiting sites like Bebo, Hi5, Facebook and MySpace.

Microsoft CIO Fired

Stuart Scott received very abrupt walking papers from Microsoft, losing his position as corporate vice-president and chief information officer.

Engagement without Measuring Makes Little Sense

BrandRepublic reports on a new survey from Jupiter Research that looks at social marketing in Europe. The survey found that more than 50% of online advertisers in Europe have run advertising campaigns that encourage user interaction and two thirds will do so in the next 12 months.

Demise Of Xohm? Perhaps Not

The $5 billion price tag to create Sprint's WiMAX service, Xohm, looked like a deal-killer when the former CEO was forced out. A spark of life exists.

Yahoo Sheds Another Executive

This time a change in the corner office ranks at Yahoo comes from Europe, where their managing director of search will bolt in favor of becoming a consultant.