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Skype taps former Motorola exec for COO post

Written by Thomas Ponco
Monday, 11 August 2008
Skype's taps, Motorola Exec to the president and chief operating officer after Internet phone provider Skype said Tuesday it has hired Scott durchslag, the former Motorola Executive, as its chief operating officer. Durchslag spent more than five years at Motorola, he was most recently vice president, global product and the invention of the experience for mobile devices business units. Skype company said that although the position in this regard durchslag "product-led strategy, innovation, intellectual property, design, user interface, the consumer experience, partnerships, product marketing, and customer service." In fact, durchslag is in charge of "strategic" and "innovation" for Motorola's equipment business, the company lost significant market share of competitors, because its lack of innovation and attractiveness of the phone is not ringing is Endorsement. Motorola's mobile performance, leading to resignation of former chief executive Ed Zander and planned split of the mobile devices unit. Nevertheless, durchslag a number of significant achievements in Motorola. He helped strike deal with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Kodak bring new services, Motorola's mobile devices. In the past, and the role of the company, he was responsible for Motorola's South Asia region, he can build a business with the highest profit margins for Motorola, according to Skype's press release. When he joined Motorola in 2002 as chief strategy officer of the personal communications sector, he helped develop the strategy to double the market share and increase revenue, for this part of the business from 2002 to 2007, Skype has said in a statement . Qiaoshixier Silverman, who was appointed president of Skype in March and will durchslag the new boss, is confident that his new charges will help Skype's innovation and bring new services market. "Scott has an excellent track record and will be able to help us adopt best practices, where he was staying in the ever more customer-focused and agile, even as larger," he said in a statement. Skype offers free and low-cost voice, video phones, instant messaging services on the Internet. The company was acquired by eBay in 2005 for 2.6 billion U.S. dollars. Even if it is by far the most successful IP voice services companies, users and 309 million registered users around the world, it is not a financial success eBay. In fact, last year, eBay has taken 900 million Dollar, the so-called impairment write-down of the value of Skype. In essence, the shareholders of the company admitted that it had taken a loss, its original investment. Nonetheless, eBay is determined to make some of its investment. Mobile is a new field of Skype. Durchslag and experience, can help the company come up with a viable strategy. I guess we will wait and see. Bookmark Email This Hits: 194 Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Write comment Name Email Title Comment smaller \| bigger Subscribe via email (Registered users only) I have read and agree to the Terms of Usage. Write the displayed characters