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The new boss of Argos says he has been given a clean sheet from Home Retail Chairman Oliver Stocken to embark upon a brand new strategy for the catalogue retailer. And speaking to Bloomberg, John Walden said that he’s open to the idea of potentially using Argos stores in a …
Read More »HMV slams ‘idiotic’ offshore tax dodging
It is ‘absolutely nuts’ online retailers can avoid tax so easily, says HMV. The Government is closing down the Channel Island tax loophole from April, but HMV CEO Simon Fox says this doesn’t go far enough. He believes that HMV’s big name online rivals such as Play, The Hut and …
Read More »Kaz Hirai: "Holy sh*t, now what?"
New Sony president and CEO Kaz Hirai has begun his reign by swearing in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. What drove the normally calm exec into such an outburst? The size of the job he faces in turning the Sony ship around. Stock in the company has plummeted …
Read More »Riccitiello: This is the kind of quarter a CEO loves to report
EA CEO John Riccitiello has spoken positively about the firm’s last financial quarter which its position as the No.1 PS3 and Xbox 360 publisher in the world in 2011. This was the kind of quarter a CEO loves to report,” he told investors. It is one which generated our highest …
Read More »Kaz Hirai officially becomes Sony president and CEO on April 1st
Sony has at long last confirmed the rumours of Kaz Hirai’s appointment as president and CEO of the company. The change will take effect as of April 1st 2012. Current chairman, CEO and president Sir Howard Stringer will assume the role of chairman of the board of directors in June. …
Read More »QA Spotlight: Enzyme Labs
MCV chats to Enzyme Labs president and CEO Yan Cyr about the challenges of testing 3D games, motion titles and more. Is user-testing important in an age of 3D and motion gaming? Do you cater for this? At Enzyme Labs we have been performing focus groups and playtests on games …
Read More »OpenFeint co-founder steps down
The mobile gaming network’s CEO and co-founder Jason Citron has resigned after the company was sold to Gree earlier this year. OpenFeint will now be run by Naoki Aoyagi, who is also CFO of the firm’s Japanese parent company Gree. He has ten years’ experience in finance and management including …
Read More »Yahoo sacks CEO Bartz
Internet services provider Yahoo has sacked its CEO Carol Bartz after two and a half years in the role. I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board,” Bartz told employees via an internal email, published by Wired. …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Andrew House
Meet the most powerful Brit in the global games industry.Andrew House is the new president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment. He has been interviewed by MCV seven times and has been the face of PlayStation Europe for over two years. But who is he really? And what will he …
Read More »Cook: "Apple is not going to change"
Tim Cook, the new CEO of tech powerhouse Apple, has for the first time spoken to his new empire. In an email to employees obtained by Ars Technica, Cook praised outgoing CEO Steve Jobs and promised that he would very much stay loyal to the ideals set down by his …
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