Time Warner Inc. today announced that the Company and Chris Albrecht have agreed that he will no longer serve as chairman and CEO of Home Box Office, effective immediately.
http://www.hbo.com

 
Yahoo is hiring two scientists in the areas of economics and sociology to head up its research in online markets and social networks, the company is expected to announce Thursday.  R. Preston McAfee, the J. Stanley Johnson professor of business, economics and management at the California Institute of Technology, will be a vice president and research fellow leading Yahoo's microeconomics research group. McAfee earned a master's degree in economics and mathematics and a doctoral degree in economics from Purdue University and will work out of Yahoo's offices in Burbank, Calif. Duncan Watts, professor of sociology at Columbia University, where he was director of the Collective Dynamics Group, and author of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, will lead Yahoo's research in human social dynamics, including social networks and collaborative problem solving. He received a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of New South Wales and a doctoral degree in theoretical and applied mechanics from Cornell University and will be based out of Yahoo's New York City offices.
http://www.yahoo.com

 
Internet television solutions company, WhiteBlox, announced today that they have brought Del Bothof on board as a key executive and as acting SVP of Sales. Bothof will help build the customer facing organization within WhiteBlox as the company matures and expands its market reach into new business sectors.
http://www.whiteblox.com

 
HandHeld Entertainment™ today announced that it has named Peter Allen as its vice president of engineering.  Allen will lead the integration of media content between HandHeld Entertainment’s Web sites (currently Putfile.com™, Holylemon.com™, Unoriginal.co.uk™, Dorks.com™, YourDailyMedia.com™, FunMansion.com™ and ZVUE.com™) and will help build a platform upon which the company can deploy revenue-generating advertising and promotional products and services.
http://www.hheld.com

Sprint Nextel on Thursday named Tim Kelly as its new CMO, replacing Mark Schweitzer, who is leaving the company at the end of May. Kelly, who joined the company in 1994 and most recently served as the president of its Customer Management organization, will now assume responsibility for the development and execution of Sprint Nextel's national marketing strategy. Steve Nielsen, currently the company's senior vice president for finance operations, will take over the leadership role in the Customer Management organization, becoming chief service officer.
http://www2.sprint.com/mr/news_dtl.do?id=16580

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