Personnel changes in the largest IT and media companies in Russia and the world this week
The working week (February 1-5) was accompanied by loud (and not so) personnel changes in the largest Russian IT companies and media resources.
Someone headed the new division. Someone "change" in the hope of the best. Some companies are not accustomed to arrange mass reductions. And from some companies go "legends" and key figures.
"Megamind" invites readers to recall these events and make a "commit" of the changes that have occurred.
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1. The head of Auto.ru Roman Abramov left the company. He went to work in the CarPrice car appraisal service as product director.
Yandex bought Auto.ru in 2014 for $ 175 million. In the fall of 2015, the service was restarted with a new business model with a bias in non-advertising monetization.
2. The media manager Aram Gabrelyanov will no longer publish the Izvestia newspaper , writes RBC with reference to its sources. Izvestia belongs to the National Media Group , but the Gabrelyanov holding News Media has been operating the newspaper since 2011. Gabrelyanov also heads the board of directors of the publisher Izvestia.
Sources claim that shareholders plan to make the newspaper "more qualitative" and analytical.
3. In the team of the Internet retailer Wikimart reshuffle - the head of the search promotion department Mikhail Slivinsky and the director of corporate relations and legal issues Denis Kosenkov told us about their retirement from the company in one day.
Kosenkov said on Facebook that he joins law firm Gaffer & Gaffer as a managing partner.
Mikhail Slivinsky from Wikimart came to Yandex to manage the webmasters service. The webmasters service is a new division of Yandex, it is in the direction of search technology. Her task, in particular, is “the centralization of all communications between Yandex and the professional community,” explains the company.
4. In "Moslent" owned by Rambler & Co , was replaced by the chief editor. Instead of Olga Doronina, the position was taken by Daniel Fimin, editor-in-chief of the hybrid blog platform and Rustoria media, and former deputy editor-in-chief at Reedus , Rambler & Co said in a statement.
In Rambler & Co, Fimin was responsible for a separate section of Moslenta, a special project of the blogger Ilya Varlamov called Moslenta Varlamov.
5. One of the most influential top managers of the company, Amit Singhal, senior vice president of search, is leaving Google . Singhal will leave the post on February 26th.
He began working for the company in 2000 in the search quality department. In 2001, he received the title of honorary employee for the complete reworking of the ranking system, which was created by the founders of the search engine Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Singhal also participated in the creation of the first advertising toolkit, which became the main revenue driver for the company.
Singhal said he wants to spend more time with his family. He also intends to engage in philanthropy.
6. Long-suffering Internet company Yahoo! once again hold massive redundancies. Allegedly, without this, the company will not be able to achieve the required financial indicators. The company will leave 15% of the state, and this is 1.6 thousand people. Yahoo will close five offices - in Dubai, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Madrid and Milan.
Under the leadership of Mayer, Yahoo! decreased from approximately 14 thousand (as of 2012) to 10.7 thousand people in the last quarter. The last time a major reduction was carried out in the first nine months of 2015, then 1.8 thousand employees were laid off, mainly in the company's representative offices outside the United States, including China, India and Canada.
Someone headed the new division. Someone "change" in the hope of the best. Some companies are not accustomed to arrange mass reductions. And from some companies go "legends" and key figures.
"Megamind" invites readers to recall these events and make a "commit" of the changes that have occurred.
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1. The head of Auto.ru Roman Abramov left the company. He went to work in the CarPrice car appraisal service as product director.
Yandex bought Auto.ru in 2014 for $ 175 million. In the fall of 2015, the service was restarted with a new business model with a bias in non-advertising monetization.
2. The media manager Aram Gabrelyanov will no longer publish the Izvestia newspaper , writes RBC with reference to its sources. Izvestia belongs to the National Media Group , but the Gabrelyanov holding News Media has been operating the newspaper since 2011. Gabrelyanov also heads the board of directors of the publisher Izvestia.
Sources claim that shareholders plan to make the newspaper "more qualitative" and analytical.
3. In the team of the Internet retailer Wikimart reshuffle - the head of the search promotion department Mikhail Slivinsky and the director of corporate relations and legal issues Denis Kosenkov told us about their retirement from the company in one day.
Kosenkov said on Facebook that he joins law firm Gaffer & Gaffer as a managing partner.
Mikhail Slivinsky from Wikimart came to Yandex to manage the webmasters service. The webmasters service is a new division of Yandex, it is in the direction of search technology. Her task, in particular, is “the centralization of all communications between Yandex and the professional community,” explains the company.
4. In "Moslent" owned by Rambler & Co , was replaced by the chief editor. Instead of Olga Doronina, the position was taken by Daniel Fimin, editor-in-chief of the hybrid blog platform and Rustoria media, and former deputy editor-in-chief at Reedus , Rambler & Co said in a statement.
In Rambler & Co, Fimin was responsible for a separate section of Moslenta, a special project of the blogger Ilya Varlamov called Moslenta Varlamov.
5. One of the most influential top managers of the company, Amit Singhal, senior vice president of search, is leaving Google . Singhal will leave the post on February 26th.
He began working for the company in 2000 in the search quality department. In 2001, he received the title of honorary employee for the complete reworking of the ranking system, which was created by the founders of the search engine Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Singhal also participated in the creation of the first advertising toolkit, which became the main revenue driver for the company.
Singhal said he wants to spend more time with his family. He also intends to engage in philanthropy.
6. Long-suffering Internet company Yahoo! once again hold massive redundancies. Allegedly, without this, the company will not be able to achieve the required financial indicators. The company will leave 15% of the state, and this is 1.6 thousand people. Yahoo will close five offices - in Dubai, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Madrid and Milan.
Under the leadership of Mayer, Yahoo! decreased from approximately 14 thousand (as of 2012) to 10.7 thousand people in the last quarter. The last time a major reduction was carried out in the first nine months of 2015, then 1.8 thousand employees were laid off, mainly in the company's representative offices outside the United States, including China, India and Canada.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/298500/
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