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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative hired a new head of product from Quora

by Kurt Wagner

Sandra Liu Huang is joining CZI after five years at Quora.

Here are the Twitter executives you need to know

by Kurt Wagner

Twitter has had a ton of turnover in the past year. Who are the new people you should know?

Headspace, the meditation app, is putting its old CEO in charge of the company again

by Peter Kafka

Co-founder Rich Pierson is taking over for Sean Brecker, who is staying on at the startup.

A longtime Google creative lead is heading to genomics startup Color

by Tess Townsend

Michael Krantz was Google’s first consumer marketing writer 13 years ago.

Tesla CFO Jason Wheeler is leaving the company and will be replaced by ex-CFO Deepak Ahuja

by Johana Bhuiyan

Tesla CEO Elon Musk made the announcement on the Q4 earnings call.

AwesomenessTV CEO Brian Robbins is stepping down

by Peter Kafka

Here’s the memo.

The woman who helped build Michelle Obama’s brand is joining Instagram

by Kurt Wagner

Kristina Schake is joining Instagram to lead comms, and current comms boss David Swain is leaving after almost a decade at Facebook.

One of Snap’s top ad execs is leaving right before the IPO

by Kurt Wagner

Sriram Krishnan, who joined a year ago from Facebook, was a key leader on Snap’s ad tech team.

Alphabet is sending hundreds of staff from its internet access unit to Google

by Tess Townsend

The subsidiary, called Access, also has a new CEO.

WhatsApp has hired its first COO: Facebook exec Matt Idema

by Kurt Wagner

Idema will help WhatsApp manage its business ambitions.

A drone software firm has hired two execs from Salesforce and NetSuite

by April Glaser

DroneDeploy, a data management platform for drones, has new VPs of engineering and business development.

Lyft has hired the head of Google Street View to lead its mapping team

by Johana Bhuiyan

Luc Vincent, Lyft’s new vice president of engineering, is leaving Google after 12 years.

Molly Graham is taking on a top ops role at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

by Kara Swisher

The $45 billion philanthropic organization is aiming widely, using Facebook stock.

This visual recognition startup has poached AI talent from Twitter

by Tess Townsend and Kurt Wagner

New York-based Clarifai has picked up a former Google Brain engineer and four members of Twitter’s Cortex machine learning team.

Google’s former security chief is retiring from the company

by Tess Townsend

Eric Grosse confirmed today that he is leaving Google after a decade with the company.

Facebook has hired former Xiaomi and Google exec Hugo Barra as its new virtual reality chief

by Kurt Wagner

Barra left Xiaomi on Monday. Now he’s joining Facebook.

Dropcam founder and Nest employee Greg Duffy is heading to Apple

by Ina Fried

The iPhone maker confirmed the hire but won’t say what Duffy will be doing.

Prominent Silicon Valley lawyer Ted Wang is joining Cowboy Ventures as a partner

by Kara Swisher

Wang has already been involved with some of tech’s most promising startups.

LinkedIn’s top engineering executive just got promoted to be Microsoft’s new CTO

by Kurt Wagner

Kevin Scott, senior VP of engineering at LinkedIn, is joining its new parent company.

Apple’s head of global retail marketing is going to be Ford’s first chief brand officer

by Johana Bhuiyan

Before joining Apple in 2014, Musa Tariq headed up Nike’s digital marketing.

Trumps’s new FCC chief Ajit Pai wants to abolish net neutrality

by April Glaser

Expect serious restructuring at the FCC under Trump.

New York Times editor Quentin Hardy is heading to Google

by Tess Townsend

He announced on Twitter Monday that he will be head of editorial for Google Cloud.

Tesla’s new Autopilot boss wants to ‘accelerate the path to cars being appliances’

by Dan Frommer

Ex-Apple engineer Chris Lattner says he’s an “un-car person.”

Hugo Barra is leaving his post at Chinese phone maker Xiaomi

by Ina Fried

The former Google executive had been in charge of the company’s international expansion.

Uber has hired two significant Google veterans

by Tess Townsend and Johana Bhuiyan

Google’s former head of search, Amit Singhal, and the company’s SVP of engineering, Kevin Thompson, will be working together at the ride-sharing behemoth.

Google has acquired most of Twitter’s developer products, including Fabric and Crashlytics

by Kurt Wagner and Tess Townsend

The two sides aren’t sharing deal terms.

The founder of Timehop is going to work at Snapchat

by Peter Kafka

Jonathan Wegener will work on product.

Google is losing an ads star as Margo Georgiadis moves to Mattel

by Tess Townsend

Google’s Americas president is leaving for the second time.

Microsoft’s former head of search got Satya Nadella's blessing before accepting a gig at rival Baidu

by Ina Fried

Qi Lu stepped down from Microsoft last year, citing health reasons.

To take on Amazon, Walmart is streamlining its retail and web teams

by Jason Del Rey

Can the brick-and-mortar retailer become a tech company?

Amazon just poached one of Target’s rising stars to run Prime in important new markets

by Jason Del Rey

Jamil Ghani, the SVP of strategy and innovation, is heading to Seattle.

Former Obama campaign adviser David Plouffe is joining Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy team

by Kurt Wagner and Johana Bhuiyan

Plouffe is officially leaving Uber to join the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

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