– Samsung: The electronics giant named Choi Geesung as its new CEO and Jay Y. Lee as its first COO. Geesung was head of the Digital Media and Communications group, while Lee was the company’s chief customer officer before leaving after his father, then-Samsung Group chairman Lee Kun-hee, was ousted in a 2008 corruption scandal.
— TalkTalk: UK-based Carphone Warehouse is spinning off its mobile phone division from Best Buy Europe with Dido Harding as its head. Harding comes from Sainsbury, where she ran the British convenience store operations since 2007.
— Quova: The IP geolocation company has hired former *Yahoo* GM Jay Webster as chief product officer. Prior to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), he was VP of Engineering at Adteractive Inc. and president and CTO of Fathom Online.
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