Comcast is asking the U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan to dismiss MaxLinear’s misappropriation of trade secrets counterclaims in their entirety under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim, said Comcast’s memorandum of law Friday (docket 1:23-cv-04436) in support of its motion to dismiss.
DOJ informed Alpha and Omega Semiconductor on Jan. 19 that it has closed, without bring criminal charges, its three-year investigation into the company’s compliance with export control regulations against Huawei and its subsidiaries, said the chipmaker Thursday. The company “is pleased with this decision” and intends to continue cooperating with the Commerce Department’s ongoing Huawei civil investigation, it said. At Commerce’s request, Alpha and Omega Semiconductor hasn't shipped product to Huawei since December 2019, it said.
Newly promoted at Indie Semiconductor: Peter Gulden to executive vice president-radar systems and software; Abhay Rai to chief product officer; and Michael Wittmann to chief operating officer ... Resilio, file synchronization solutions company for content creation workflows, hires Signiant’s Thomas Bush as vice president-strategic accounts, media and entertainment ... ViewLift, digital content distribution platform for sports and entertainment streaming, adds John Rose, Boston Consulting Group managing director and senior partner, and also former EMI Group, and Steve Byrd, former Sportradar head-global strategic partnerships, to its board.
Computer & Communications Industry Association taps Brian McMillan, former chief counsel and legislative director to Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., as vice president-federal affairs ... Nielsen hires Buzzfeed’s Carole Robinson, also former Viacom, as chief communications officer ... Salem Media Group promotes Nic Anderson to vice president-government affairs and Mike Murphy to general manager-Twin Cities, succeeding Anderson ... LastPass hires Wrike’s Esther Flammer as chief marketing officer ... Toluna, market research company, promotes Scott Axcell to chief marketing officer ... AnalytixInsight, data analytics company, announces resignation of Prakash Hariharan as president, CEO and board chair; Hariharan will remain a board member and special adviser; company names director Vince Kadar board chair and Chief Operating Officer Natalie Hirsch interim president-CEO ... Onit, legal workflow solutions company, hires E2open’s Michael Farlekas as CEO, effective March 1; current CEO and co-founder Eric Elfman will move to the role of vice chairman ... Hitachi Vantara, Hitachi’s hybrid cloud management subsidiary, taps NetApp’s Octavian Tanase as chief product officer ... LocatorX, IoT supply chain company, adds CNBC market analyst Steve Grasso to its advisory board ... National Center for the Advancement of Semiconductor Technology, which is expected to operate Chips for America National Semiconductor Technology Center once established, hires Deirdre Hanford, from Synoposis, as organization’s first CEO … George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center taps Roger Nober, ex- BNSF Railway, as director.
Coalition for Independent Technology Research announces board member Brandi Geurkink, ex-Mozilla Foundation, as inaugural executive director, effective January … Diodes, supplier of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and optical transceiver modules, promotes Chief Operating Officer Gary Yu to president, effective Jan. 2; Keh-Shew Lu continues as chairman-CEO at least through May 2027, consistent with his current employment agreement ... Sealsq, tech hardware and software company, hires Franck Buonanno, from WISeKey International, as vice president-global sales, semiconductor and public key infrastructure activities.
Frameplay, in-game advertising platform, hires Skai’s Sandy Shanman, also former Samba TV, as chief operating officer, and Google’s Vishal Arora as chief technology officer... IBM elects Marianne Brown, former Fidelity National Information Services COO, to its board ... The Arena Group tech platform and media company terminates the employment of CEO Ross Levinsohn, and names majority owner Manoj Bhargava interim CEO; Levinsohn's termination follows last week's firing of Chief Operating Officer Andrew Kraft, Media President Rob Barrett and corporate counsel Julie Fenster ... Ayar Labs, silicon photonics company for “chip-to-chip connectivity,” names co-founder and CTO Mark Wade its next CEO, succeeding Charles Wuischpard, serving in an advisory capacity before transitioning out of the company in mid-January ... Cybersecurity company Resillion, formerly Eurofins Digital Testing, names Qualitest co-founder Yaron Kottler executive chairman; previous Resillion CEO Dik Vos takes a board seat as a nonexecutive director ... Webcomics platform Webtoon Entertainment hires Inevitable Tech's David Lee, also former Zynga, as chief financial officer and COO, and promotes Yongsoo Kim to chief strategy officer.
Crown Castle announces CEO Jay Brown is retiring, effective Jan. 16; board member Anthony Melone to become interim CEO during a replacement search ... GlobalFoundries appoints Silicon Labs Chief Financial Officer John Hollister as CFO, effective Feb. 5; Silicon Labs announces Chief Accounting Officer Mark Mauldin will be named interim CFO when the “handover” is completed by Feb. 2, while search is underway for Hollister’s permanent replacement ... AeroVironment hires Mercury Systems’ Church Hutton, also former Sierra Nevada, as vice president-government relations ... RingCentral returns founder Vlad Shmunis to his full-time role as CEO, replacing departed Tarek Robbiati; Shmunis also remains RingCentral chairman ... Gather AI taps Kiva systems' founding engineer Andrew Hoffman as chief technology officer.
TowerNorth, developer and operator of wireless infrastructure assets in the U.S. and Europe, hires Full Tilt Energy Systems’ Tim Jaki, also former Crown Castle, as chief operating officer; Parallel Infrastructure’s Joshua Mossey as chief financial officer; and American Tower’s Pablo Herrera as vice president-corporate development ... New hires at Astera Labs, connectivity solutions provider for cloud and AI infrastructure: Elli Castro-Bordano, ex-Marvell Technology, as vice president-deputy general counsel; Meta’s Chris Petersen as fellow-technology and ecosystems; and Diakopto’s Kelvin Khoo, also former Broadcom, as senior vice president-corporate development ... Mobility app company inDrive taps Careem’s Stephen Kruger, also former IBM, as chief technology and product officer.
Alaska Communications hires former Comcast executive Matthew McConnell as president-CEO ... Entertainment company TMB names Joseph Moschella senior vice president-general counsel; Moschella previously was general counsel of Jukin Media, which TMB acquired in 2021 ... Ikotek, IoT original design manufacturer, hires Mathi Gurusamy, former president of Telit Cinterion’s IoT solutions division, as chief operating officer ... Spectra7, supplier of analog semiconductors for broadband connectivity, names its retired former Chief Financial Officer David Mier interim CFO; company previously announced that current CFO Bonnie Tomei will take a personal leave of absence effective Dec. 1 ... Website accessibility platform UserWay promotes Sophia Tupolev-Luz to vice president-communications, and hires Growthspace’s Etay Geller, also former Minute Media, as vice president-product.
A defect in Intel central processing units (CPUs) can only be “fixed” by adopting a patch that slows CPU performance by as much as half, said a fraud complaint (docket 4:23-cv-05761) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.