Clearwire Media Exec Leaves; Is The WiMax Company Changing Its Content Strategy?

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Clearwire’s content division, which has been building a web portal for its wireless broadband service, has lost its engineering leader and may be heading towards a restructuring, mocoNews has learned from people familiar with the situation.

While the changes are in part a sign of the times, they may hint at a larger shift for the company’s overall content strategy. Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) could decide to offload the arduous task to Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which invested $500 million into the company for the right to provide some services to the network. So far, it doesn’t appear that any decision has been made, and the departure of Vincent Vu, who was the division’s head of engineering, was a mutual decision, according to sources, who say he disagreed with the company’s direction.

The question is what’s next for the Santa Monica, Calif.-based group, which was formed after Clearwire hired employees from Bankrupt MVNO Amp’d? Called ClearMedia, the team is responsible for inking content partnerships for the company

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