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Netviber Experience (NetEx) (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
With the replacement of Tariq Krim by Freddy Mini as new CEO, Netvibes has given a clear sign that the almost 3 year long Start-up phase of the project is now finished. Many well informed insiders, as Pierre Chappaz (shareholder and former co-CEO of Netvibes and actual CEO of Wikio.com ), have declared : Netvibes is now entering the monetization phase. On the practical side what does it mean ? First,...
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Netviber Experience (NetEx) (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
In the day of World Record for most daily downloads software by FireFox 3 , Freddy Mini , the new CEO of Netvibes, declares in his first post on Netvibes blog that: Netvibes loves FireFox 3 for speed, memory usage, addon ... well I had already wrote it yesterday ;) Another big advantage is in the Javascript management (" tests using the SunSpider framework have shown Javascript, which Netvibes is...
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Widgets Lab (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Netvibes started as a mere Startpage at the shadow of PageFlakes. made the best Startpage yet and then surpassed them. then it became a Low End Widget Platform and was one of the first to recognize High Spread sharing as the future of widget development and distribution. While all this is already bold moves. in [...]
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Tariq Krim (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
As of Friday afternoon, I am no longer the CEO of Netvibes. Even though TechCrunch broke the story, I wanted to wait until everything was formally done to communicate the news. As promised, it’s now the time to announce my new role with Netvibes, the company I founded nearly three years ago. Last week we decided [...]
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Valleywag (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
COO Freddy Mini will be taking over Krim's job, with Krim staying on the board, as the Paris-based personalized homepage company changes focus to widgets. "No concrete reason for his departure was... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
The founder and chief exec of the Paris-based widget start-up has stepped aside, and COO Freddy Mini will take his place.
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Webware.com (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
Netvibes , a company offering services for creating personalized home pages and a platform for widgets, announced on Thursday that founder and Chief Executive Tariq Krim is stepping aside. Although Chief Operating Officer Freddy Mini will be taking his place as CEO, Krim will remain on the Paris-headquartered company's board of directors. No concrete reason for his departure was provided. In a release...
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Netvibes Blog (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
As announced yesterday Tariq is stepping down as CEO of Netvibes. Tariq Krim will remain on the Board of Directors and serve as a key strategic advisor to the executive team on its creative product and strategic growth initiatives. Freddy Mini is now taking over the CEO role in Netvibes. Since...
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pierre | 05/29/2008
You will without doubt already know that Freddy Mini is replacing Tariq Krim as CEO of Netvibes. I think it's a good decision. Freddy Mini, Chief Operating Officer of Netvibes for 2 years and based in San Fransisco, has incomparable experience: he was CEO of ZDNet Europe. and then Musicme, before agreeing to join us at Netvibes in 2006. When I resigned from my position as co-CEO last year in order
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Netvibes, the pioneer of the personalized homepage and leading universal widget platform, today announced that it has appointed Freddy Mini as the company
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
The founder of Netvibes is moving on. Tariq Krim is stepping down as CEO of Netvibes to “spend less time day-to-day” at the company and work on a “new project,” he tells me. (More details on that project later). He will remain on the board of the company and as a non-executive [...]
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Loïc Le Meur (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Tariq Krim and Freddy Mini, founder and CEO of Netvibes, visited the Seesmic offices today and talked a bit about what is new at Netvibes.
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pierre | 05/29/2008
You will without doubt already know that Freddy Mini is replacing Tariq Krim as CEO of Netvibes. I think it's a good decision. Freddy Mini, Chief Operating Officer of Netvibes for 2 years and based in San Fransisco, has incomparable experience: he was CEO of ZDNet Europe. and then Musicme, before agreeing to join us at Netvibes in 2006. When I resigned from my position as co-CEO last year in order...
