Feeling the heat from ongoing unfavourable iPhone comparisons, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is re-jigging its corporate structure to respond… —Mobile Solutions (led by Anssi Vanjoki): The old Services from Devices & Services, plus more, it comprises Symbian Smartphones (Jo Harlow), MeeGo (Alberto Torres), Services (Tero Ojanpera). —Mobile Phones (led by Mary…

Erika Nardini, the VP of brand packaging at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), announced her resignation today, sources tell us. At Yahoo, Nardini reported directly to North America head Hilary Schneider and was responsible for “advertiser driven content and product innovation” across the company’s properties. We believe she is now headed to…

AOL (NYSE: AOL) has hired Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) online executive Alex Gounares as its CTO, we have confirmed with sources. AllThingsD‘s Kara Swisher first reported the news earlier this afternoon; AOL isn’t commenting, while Microsoft confirms he has indeed left. Gounares, who had previously been Microsoft’s CVP of advertising R&D,…

By Jane Martinson and Jason Deans: Will Lewis has been pushed out of the Telegraph Media Group after a disagreement with chief executive Murdoch MacLennan over the future direction of the publisher, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal. The shock departure comes just a month after Lewis, editor in chief and managing director,…

AOL (NYSE: AOL) is tapping Hearst Digital‘s digital services and development director Julian Downing to be its director of its AOL Media division in Europe - the latest step in staffing up its content arm in the continent. Downing will report to David Shing, who was upped to head European…

By Steve Busfield: The Guardian Media Group group director of digital strategy and development, Simon Waldman, is to join LoveFilm. Waldman is to become group product director for the DVD rental subscription service, which is moving into digital distribution. Waldman, who was launch editor of Guardian Unlimited in 1999, has…

Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. becomes the latest to try to tackle the mixed opportunities of mobile and various handheld devices by creating a new post. Florent Peyre has been promoted to VP-Emerging Platforms from VP-business and corporate development. Peyre is still reporting to Todd Anderman, SVP, Hacehette Digital, but with…

Former Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) VP-corporate development Bruce Jaffe has been hired as Glam Media’s next CFO. Jaffe, who left Microsoft back in January ‘08, joined Glam as an adviser to the board almost two years ago. He will replace Glam’s current CFO, Stephen Recht, who will stay on through the…

Although talks of selling Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) has cooled over the past few months, it looks like the company is looking at doing some buying of its own. That appears to be the reason Playboy has hired   Paul H. Lee as its first managing director for new digital…

Vivek Shah, who left Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) as digital head at news division of Time Inc. last November, has been named as an independent board member of TheStreet.com. Like a lot of content companies, TheStreet (NSDQ: TSCM) has struggled to stanch the online ad declines, while trying to build…

Tim Hanlon, who exited his post as EVP/managing director of Publicis Groupe’s VivaKi Ventures in October, has joined marketing investment company Catalyst S+F as a partner. Catalyst S+F is one part venture firm, one part marketing consultancy. Hanlon has been hired to expand the San Francisco company’s client base and…

Greg Osberg, the long-time Newsweek executive who later headed up mobile video startup Buzzwire, has been hired as CEO of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com by the media properties’ new owners. In its report, the Inquirer describes Osberg’s hiring “as a dramatic signal that the new entity ...…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) SVP Bryan Lamkin—who oversaw the company’s communications products, including Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger, as well as its communities products, such as Flickr and Yahoo Answers—leaving the company after a year on the job—the latest top executive to exit the company recently. Lamkin—who had previously spent 14…

When Quincy Smith left CBS, former CNET CEO Neil Ashe was the natural successor to head CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS). Now Zander Lurie, the unit’s EVP & CFO, is being promoted to SVP-strategic development for CBS, filling one of Smith’s other roles as in-house strategist for authentication and other initiatives.…

AETN makes the expected official: the programmer is staying inside when it comes to a successor for Andrea Wong as head of Lifetime. Nancy Dubuc, president of the History brands, adds president and GM of Lifetime effective May 1. Dubuc was considered a strong candidate to replace Wong, whose departure…

Lori Burgess, whose tenure at OK Magazine became a Gawker soap opera, is succeeding Eric Mika as publisher of The Hollywood Reporter. Mika left last month, soon after Richard Beckman took over as CEO of new parent e5 Global Media in the latest round of that magazine’s own sudser. Burgess…

Six months after CFO Linda Havard stepped down, Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) has finally found a permanent replacement in long-time Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Entertainment executive Christoph Pachler. There was speculation when Havard resigned that a deal to sell the troubled firm was close—but sale chatter has since faded off—and,…

Guardian Media Group is putting a numbers guy in charge, at least for the time being, in place of outgoing veteran Carolyn McCall. Chief financial officer Andrew Miller will be “interim chief executive” from July 1, following McCall’s exit to easyJet at June’s end. A GMG statement says: “The process…

Bill Wise is leaving Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), paidContent has learned and the company has confirmed. Wise, who was president of Right Media when Yahoo acquired the company, has been VP of Yahoo’s Display Ad Platforms, including APT and Right Media. Wise will be leaving “to pursue the next phase of…