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ATT hired Chris Schembri as its new marketing director. Motorola CEO Greg Brown will personally lead the ailing handset business, while investor Carl Icahn filed to nominate four board members to the company’s 13-member board. KPN would cut more jobs...

Jean-Christophe Giroux quits ALU France management team, but remains in the group. ALU France has presented an extension of its voluntary-based restructuring program that would result in the loss of some 400 positions, all of which will be done on a voluntary...

Tellabs will cut 225 jobs to return to profitability. Cosmote Romania has appointed Stefanos Theocharopoulos as CEO Telkom Kenya will lay off half of its staff, as part of a plan to help returning to profitability. Keith Orr has been named new Board member...

Nokia will cut 2300 jobs and close its mobile phone factory in Bochum, Germany. In addition, its R&D unit in Germany for software adaptation will be sold to Sasken technologies. It will also sell its automotive business Sprint Nextel would cut several...

Motorola announced 1600 layoffs done in 4Q07. LG USA has appointed Jeff Hwang as president. ALU announced the appointment of Vivek Mohan as President of the company’s business in India, and the appointment of Rémi Thomas as Vice President, Investor Relations....

As a result of the merger with C-COR, Arris will shed about 100 people. The management team is made of: Bob Stanzione, Arris chairman and CEO; Larry Margolis, Arris EVP and general counsel; and David Potts, EVP and CFO, Ron Coppock as sales and marketing...

Dr. Niel Ransom (ex ALU) has been appointed to Turin Networks ' Board of directors. Ronan Dunne , current O2 UK CFO, becomes O2 UK CEO. James E. Moylan is the new Ciena CFO.

Another major change at Motorola . CTO Padmasree Warrior quits the company to join Cisco. Peter Erskine is stepping down from Telefonica O2 . Olivier Roussat is the new CEO of Bouygues Telecom (France). Telecom Italia appoints Franco Bernabe as CEO and...

Franco Bernabe has been designated as Telecom Italia' s new CEO, and Gabriele Galateri as new chairman. Steven Boutelle has been named Cisco' s VP Global Government Solutions Group. Telefonica O2 Europe Peter Erskine, is to step down as Chairman and CEO,...

Larry Rinaldi , ex Motorola CMO Asia, will become Haier ' s new global chief brand officer. SeaChange announces the appointment of Simon McGrath to the CMO position. Telkom S. Africa has appointed Reuben Septembe r as chief executive with immediate e...