In Silicon Valley, it’s hard to believe that not everyone follows each shiny new thing on the Web, tracks OS versions as intently as the storyline for “Battlestar Galactica” and remains jacked-in pretty much 24/7. But it’s been known to happen.
For instance, BoomTown was in Rome earlier this week attending a conference on business, brand and innovation that happens only once every seven years–and one of the biggest takeaways? Hardly any Italians have heard of Twitter, and those who have don’t really use it.
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Well, veteran Google employee Sheryl Sandberg found a good use for her “20% time”: interviewing for the COO spot at Facebook. In news first reported on All Things Digital by BoomTown’s Kara Swisher, she’ll join the social network later this month as chief operating officer.
Quite a coup for Facebook. As Google’s vice president of [...]
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Google’s mission–to organize the world’s information-technology workers and make them financially successful–is growing more difficult these days as key employees exercise their options, stuff their pockets to bursting with the proceeds and move on. And who could blame them when options granted in 2003 with an average strike price of 49 cents are trading well [...]
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