Buried at the end of most reports about eBay hiring a new financial officer is the tidbit that eBay's current CFO, Rajiv Dutta, is moving to Europe to become president of Skype. To me, that's the real news. Dutta is one of eBay's sharpest executives, and putting him in charge of Skype shows a real committment to the business. It is also consistent with eBay's longstanding management practice of moving key executives around to give them broad experience and create a deep bench of potential future CEOs. If Dutta can make the Skype acquisition work, his next move might be to Meg Whitman's cubicle.
Wireless World: Not just for nebbishes
CHICAGO, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- A few years ago wireless data networks were a novelty, something that only nebbishes enjoyed, and no one else really understood, or cared to understand. Now they're a business necessity -- for the corporate office or home office, supplementing, but in some cases supplanting, wired infrastructure, experts tell United Press International's Wireless World. That's changing the way we work, and reshaping our expectations about the office environment.
A new report released this week by Synergy Research Group, based in Reno, Nevada, indicates that wireless local area network equipment sales continued their surge during the fourth quarter of last year, growing seven percent during the period, and 13 percent for the entire year. By Gene Koprowski
Posted by: Ted Smith | February 24, 2006 at 10:21 AM