Jonathan Heiliger
Today in Tech: DVD sales drop, streaming services soar
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Several high-profile Facebook employees have recently left the company, including Jim Midgal, director of business development, Jonathan Heiliger, VP of technical architecture, and Marcel Laverdet, one of three employees who got their jobs by once hacking the social network to resemble MySpace.
(Business Insider)- AOL's latest quarterly earnings are in, and depending on how you view things, the company either pleasantly surprised or disappointed: factoring in the Huffington Post acquisition and restructuring costs, profits amounted to $4.7 million on sales of $551.4 million, a 17% decline from the same time a year ago. But if you exclude all those costs, earnings actually beat analyst estimates. (ZDNET)
- DVD sales dropped 20% last quarter. While movie studios blame the plunge on the Easter holiday and a lack of blockbuster releases, it's also worth noting that sales for streaming and subscription-based services like Netflix jumped 33% to $695 million. (The Guardian) More
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Open Compute: taking aim at Google?
Facebook's new cheap, fast, green data center is really a free blueprint for companies that want to chip away at Google's computing advantage. Including Facebook.
By Dan Mitchell, contributor
The data center business, as it currently exists, is a little too much like "Fight Club" (The first rule of servers: you do not talk about our servers) says Facebook's Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations.
For that reason, Facebook will share the designs for its MORE
Apr 8, 2011 12:32 PM ET -
Jive adds Facebook, Google and McAfee muscle to its board
Is the "Facebook for the office" company joining the rest of the Valley in cranking up the IPO machine?
FORTUNE -- Nothing says, "we plan to go public" more than when a startup bulks up its board with executives from brand-name companies. Software company Jive has just done that, with the addition of former McAfee (MFE) Chairman Chuck Robel, McAffee President David DeWalt, Facebook's VP of Technical Operations Jonathan Heiliger and MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Mar 30, 2011 4:13 PM ETPosted in: David DeWalt, Facebook, Google, Jive, Jonathan Heiliger, LinkedIn, McAfee, Salesforce.com, Sundar Pichai, Tony Zingale, Yammer
