OpenText names Shannon Bell, ex-Rogers Communications, executive vice president-chief digital officer and adds her to its executive leadership team ... US Electrodynamics names Paul Kaminski, former undersecretary of defense under President Bill Clinton, chairman, and taps former Eutelsat Americas CEO Mike Antonovich as CEO-commercial, and John Stopher, former House Intelligence Committee, as CEO-government ... Barclays hires Morgan Stanley’s Pedro Costa as vice chairman-technology, media and telecommunications M&A, Americas ... Advocado, data-as-a-service platform for advertisers, publishers and media companies, adds former GroupM Chairman-CEO Irwin Gotlieb and former Group W Satellite Communications executive Steven Saslow to its board ... LG Ad Solutions names Zenapse’s Michael Hudes president-CEO and adds him to its board; Chief Operating Officer Adam Sexton relinquishes his acting CEO role ... Provenir, supplier of AI-powered risk decisioning software, taps Builder.ai’s Andres Elizondo, also former Rackspace Technology, as chief financial officer ... Zenlayer, hyperconnected cloud company, names EdgeCast’s Jeff Geiser vice president-customer experience, newly created role ... Chip company Untether AI hires Chris Walker, former Intel corporate vice president-general manager, as president.
Defendant Diamond Resorts seeks a Sept. 27 hearing on its motion to compel plaintiff Paul Sapan’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims to arbitration, said Diamond’s notice of that motion Wednesday (docket 8:23-cv-00147) in U.S. District Court for Central California in Santa Ana.
FTC Chair Lina Khan names Henry Liu, from Covington & Burling, director-Competition Bureau, succeeding Holly Vedova, retiring … Diana Moss, ex-American Antitrust Institute, says she joined the Progressive Policy Institute as vice president and director-competition policy … American Arbitration Association names vLex’s Steve Errick, also ex-LexisNexis, senior vice president-chief development officer; Errick also will fill those roles for AAA’s international division, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, focusing on projects on impact of changing technology and AI on alternative dispute resolution ... Cantellus Group, tech advisory firm, adds JoAnn Stonier, Matercard fellow-data, AI and privacy, and Bryce Goodman, chief strategist-AI and machine learning in DOD’s Innovation Unit, as executive advisers.
Arm Holdings “can provide no assurances” about the outcome of its litigation with Qualcomm and Nuvia, said Arm’s F-1 registration statement Monday at the SEC for its forthcoming initial public offering. Arm also can’t predict how the litigation will affect its relationship with Qualcomm, “which is currently a major customer of ours” and generated 11% of Arm’s total revenue for the fiscal year ended March 31, said the F-1. The case is in the discovery phase, with trial set for September 2024 (see 2212190066), it said. The litigation “will likely require significant legal expenditures,” it said. “It may also require substantial time and attention from our executives or employees, which could distract them from operating our business.” it said. Arm’s involvement in such litigation “could cause us to incur significant reputational damage in the industry, in our relationship with Qualcomm or in our relationship with other third-party partners,” said the F-1. 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. “In the process,” alleged Arm’s Aug. 31, 2022, complaint, 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 countersued in October for a declaratory judgment that it has complied with its contractual obligations to Arm.
Comcast’s preliminary injunction showing “is virtually unrebutted” in its attempt to block MaxLinear from walking away from its contractual obligations to supply chips for Comcast’s broadband gateways (see 2305300045), said Comcast’s reply memorandum of law Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-04436) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan in further support of the injunction. A hearing on Comcast’s injunction motion is set for Sept. 13 at noon EDT (see 2307180044).
Apple falsely promoted iOS 15 as improving the performance of older devices like the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus when in fact it didn’t work at all well on those devices, and the company should have known that, alleged nine iPhone 7 owners in a fraud class action Wednesday (docket 5:23-cv-03882) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
T-Mobile US adds IBM Chief Financial Officer James Kavanaugh to its board, effective immediately, and as a member of the board’s audit committee, effective Aug. 1 ... Liberty Global adds former Comcast Cable executive Tony Werner to its board ... Lumen Technologies names F5's Ana White executive vice president-chief people officer, effective Sept. 1 ... Aviso, AI revenue operating system, adds former Salesforce.com Global Chief Information Officer Claus Moldt as chief technology adviser and Prabhdeep Singh, former UiPath, as head-AI products, and chief AI adviser ... Silicon Integration Initiative reelects NXP Semiconductors executive Pankaj Kukkal to a second term as board chair for 2023-2024 ... Riedel Communications names ES Broadcast’s Peter Tsegaye regional sales manager-Canada ... Vanta, trust management platform, names GitHub’s Jeremy Epling chief product officer ... Common Cause names Ishan Mehta, ex-office of Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, director-Media and Democracy Program … Procure IT picks John Cooper, ex-ARG-IT Clarity, to lead consulting practice focused on next-generation voice technologies.
Disney promotes Alexia Quadrani to executive vice president-investor relations ... Brightly, Siemens intelligent asset management solutions subsidiary, names JFrog’s David Ly, also ex-NetApp and Cisco, chief marketing officer, Red Hat’s Trey Seck, also ex-IBM Software Group, chief client officer, and Don Kurelich, ex-Siemens Smart Infrastructure, chief operating officer ... Comcast moves Jeff Buzzelli to senior vice president-Florida region ... Regional management changes at Salem Media Group: Terry Fahy, regional vice president-general manager, Los Angeles, to also oversee Oxnard; Steve Brodsky, general manager-San Diego, to also manage Honolulu; Dennis Hayes, general manager-Portland, Oregon, to also oversee Seattle; Kevin Isaacs, general manager-Cleveland, will also manage Pittsburgh; and Mark Durkin, regional vice president-general manager-Sacramento, to also manage Phoenix ... AI company Peak names Aiven’s Jani Asikanius chief revenue officer ... Ascenda, rewards infrastructure company, taps Rapid’s Gautam Thapar, also ex-Microsoft, Meta and Amazon, as chief product officer.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein for Southern New York in Manhattan scheduled a Sept. 13 hearing at noon EDT on Comcast’s application for a preliminary injunction to bar MaxLinear from walking away from its contractual obligations to supply chips for Comcast’s broadband gateways (see 2305300045), said the judge’s signed order Monday (docket 1:23-cv-04436). MaxLinear committed to continue supplying the chips for Comcast's broadband gateways, but only through Aug. 16, in return for Comcast's agreement to withdraw its motion for a temporary restraining order.
Tubi, Fox’s free ad-supported streaming service, hires Vimeo’s Anjali Sud, also former Time Warner and Amazon, as CEO, effective Sept. 1, succeeding Farhad Massoudi, Tubi's founder and CEO, who announced his departure earlier in the year ... NAB appoints Andy Alford, Nexstar Media president-broadcasting, and Tanya Vea, Bonneville International president-chief operating officer, to television board … WiSA Technologies taps Chief Financial Officer George Oliva as senior vice president-finance and strategic operations, newly created role in anticipation of WiSA’s Q3 acquisition of Comhear, developer of AI-enabled adaptive audio technology ... Tencent Music Entertainment Group announces resignation of Chief Strategy Officer Cheuk Tung Tony Yip for personal reasons, effective Aug. 31 ... Mastercard hires Micron Technology’s Rob Beard as chief legal officer, general counsel and head-global policy ... Dye & Durham, supplier of cloud-based legal practice management software, names Board International’s David Nash chief product officer, and HouseCanary’s Aaron Eichenlaub chief revenue officer.