Mark Bridge writes:
As summer approaches, so the media’s interest in mobile phone roaming increases. Once again, the maximum price of calls and texts when abroad in Europe is falling – but this year there’s something different on the horizon. The European parliament has just approved the EU’s plans to introduce a price cap for mobile data... and in a couple of years’ time we’ll be able to choose a completely separate network to help cut roaming costs.
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Yahoo! Inc. says Ross Levinsohn has been appointed as interim Chief Executive Officer, replacing Scott Thompson who has left the company.
Fred Amoroso is the new Chairman of the Board of Directors, taking over from Non-Executive Chairman Roy Bostock.
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Digital media business Yahoo! has announced restructuring plans this week, which will see around 2,000 people being “notified of job elimination or phased transition”.
Scott Thompson, the company’s CEO, said “We are intensifying our efforts on our core businesses and redeploying resources to our most urgent priorities. Our goal is to get back to our core purpose - putting our users and advertisers first - and we are moving aggressively to achieve that goal.”
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We start today’s podcast with some big-name departures, as RIM welcomes a new Chief Executive and Yahoo! says goodbye to one of its founders.
There’s plenty more, too - from impressive quarterly results to unsuccessful mobile insurance fraud.
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We start this week's show with news of RIM's new CEO before moving on to another big-name departure at Yahoo. Then it's time for some impressive financial results, a new m-commerce device and a mobile phone insurance fraudster.
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