DQE Communications, regional provider of high-speed data networking for businesses and carriers, names former Internap executive Michael Sicoli CEO, effective immediately, concurrent with the completion of DQE’s acquisition by GI Partners, an investor in data infrastructure businesses ... Nielsen hires Partha Sengupta, ex-Kroll, as managing director and leader of its new global capability centers ... Luna Innovations, fiber optic test products company, taps Will Denman as senior vice president-sales, North America, Matthew Friedman as vice president-product marketing, and John Roiko as chief financial officer, succeeding George Gomez-Quintero, resigned; Denman, Friedman and Roiko all are former National Instruments executives; Luna also names former IHS Markit Chief Accounting Officer Heather Matzke-Hamlin as a consultant to evaluate, renew and document the company’s business process controls, including Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, and adds former National Instruments CEO Alex Davern and Juniper Strategies founder Kevin Ilcisin as strategic advisers to the board; Luna also terminates Chief Technology Officer Brian Soller for cause, effective immediately ... Photonic, quantum computing and networking company, hires Chantal Arena, ex-Lawrence Semiconductors, as vice president- research, development and production, devices, and Klaus Schuegraf, ex-PsiQuantum, as vice president-research, development and production, systems; Photonic also promotes Alison Berg to chief marketing officer, newly created role, and names Moonshot Associates' Jessica Hodgson vice president-people.
MaxLinear’s “opportunistic” motion to dismiss Comcast’s third amended complaint should be denied, said Comcast’s memorandum of law Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-04436) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan in support of its opposition to the motion.
HP’s claim that it’s entitled to dismissal of an 80-count antitrust and consumer fraud class action depends on "applying pleading standards that have no basis in the law of this circuit," said the response Monday (docket 1:24-cv-00164) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago from the 11 plaintiffs in opposition to HP's motion to dismiss.
Sinclair hires CBN News’ Matthew Galka as a national correspondent in its D.C. bureau to provide reporting for The National Desk, Sinclair’s nationally syndicated news program, and for Sinclair’s broadcast stations ... Metronet taps Craig Cowden, ex-Charter Communications and Bright House Networks, as executive vice president-chief technology and product officer, and Brad Freathy, ex-Verizon Business Group and Charter, as senior vice president-commercial and carrier sales ... GCT Semiconductor, supplier of 5G and 4G semiconductor solutions, adds Synaptics Chair Nelson Chan to its board ... Foreign Policy Research Institute elects Aaron Stein, former chief content officer at War on the Rocks and Metamorphic Media, as its next president, his term beginning April 15 ... Twilio adds Andy Stafman, a partner at Sachem Head Capital Management, to its board, expanding it to 10 members.
The defendants in a trademark infringement lawsuit brought by Amazon over a scheme to sell counterfeit Amazon Fire TV remotes in its store are in default, and the prerequisites for default judgment have been met, said Amazon’s ex parte motion Monday (docket 2:23-cv-01060) for default judgment and permanent injunction against Li Qiang, Shenzhen Yinxi Electronic Commerce and “John Doe” defendants in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
The 38 plaintiffs’ privacy complaint vs. Apple over the stalking capabilities of the AirTag tracking device has alleged enough to survive Apple’s motion to dismiss, though most of the claims are “inadequately pled,” said U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria for Northern California in a signed order Friday (docket 3:22-cv-07668) in which he partially denied and partially granted Apple’s motion. The ruling addresses negligence and product liability claims of five plaintiffs who were injured in California.
The parties in Arm’s breach of contract and trademark infringement dispute with Qualcomm submit Dec. 16 as the date when the parties will be available for trial, Arm’s counsel Anne Shea Gaza of Young Conaway wrote U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika for Delaware in a letter Thursday (docket 1:22-cv-01146). The judge previously scheduled a five-day jury trial to begin Sept. 23 (see 2212190066). Arm alleges that Qualcomm spent more than $1 billion to buy Nuvia, a startup led by former Apple and Google engineers that licensed Arm technologies to develop high-performance processor cores for semiconductor chips. Arm alleges that Qualcomm caused Nuvia to breach its Arm licenses, leading Arm to terminate those licenses, in turn requiring Qualcomm and Nuvia to stop using and destroy any Arm-based technology developed under the licenses. Qualcomm's counterclaims argue Arm's allegations have no legal or contractual basis because Qualcomm maintains its own Arm licenses.
Belden promotes Hiran Bhadra to senior vice president-strategy and technology ... Absolute Software, cyber resilience platform for government and enterprises, hires Saul Gates, ex-Level Access, as chief financial officer and Chief's Colleen Wood as chief people officer ... Willdan Group, provider of consulting services to utilities, government agencies and private industry, announces retirement of board member Keith Renken, effective immediately, reducing board’s composition to seven members ... Entegris, supplier of advanced materials and process solutions for the semiconductor industry, adds Chewy CFO David Reeder, also former GlobalFoundries CFO, to its board, expanding it to eight members ... Universal Display adds Princeton Healthcare Advisory CEO Nigel Brown and Spirovant CEO Joan Lau to its board ... Phosphorus Cybersecurity appoints Mike Sullivan, ex-Talon Cyber Security, as president-worldwide field operations, effective April 1 … New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) names IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and Girls Who Code CEO Tarika Barrett as co-chairs of the state’s new Emerging Technology Advisory Board.
AT&T elects Sunshine Products CEO Marissa Mayer, also former Yahoo and Google, to its board ... Alaska Communications hires Jeff Vogt,ex-Actif.AI, also former Cantaloupe, Comcast, Level 3 Communications and AOL, as chief operating officer ... Piper Sandler investment bank promotes Brian White to co-head-technology investment banking, sharing that title with Steven Schmidt; White assumes the role from Nicholas Osborne, newly promoted to chairman-technology investment banking ... LastPass taps Asad Siddiqui, ex-Celigo, also former LinkedIn, as chief information officer ... Mobix Labs, fabless semiconductor company specializing in connectivity technologies for 5G infrastructure and satellite communications, names Chief Technology Officer Jim Aralis to lead new technical advisory board; inaugural board members are Greg Winner, InnoPhase COO; Jay Standiford, longtime engineering executive and consultant; and Frank Thiel, founder of Kolvenier Solutions, technology consulting company.
Web accessibility platform AudioEye hires Mike Paciello, former co-chair of U.S. Access Board's Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee, as chief accessibility officer ... Emnify, cloud building block for cellular communications in the IoT stack, adds Stanford University lecturer Lynda Smith, also former Twilio chief marketing officer, to its board ... Cirrus Logic announces that Deirdre Hanford won’t stand for reelection to its board in light of her appointment as CEO of National Semiconductor Technology Center (see 2401160024) ... Bot management company Arkose Labs adds David Reilly, former Bank of America chief information officer and chief technology officer, to its board.