{"id":382972,"date":"2010-03-03T13:57:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T18:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-03-03:article\/419-yahoos-european-mobile-head-mitch-lazar-resigns"},"modified":"2010-03-03T13:57:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T18:57:51","slug":"yahoos-european-mobile-head-mitch-lazar-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/382972","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo&#8217;s European Mobile Head Mitch Lazar Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"border: 1px solid silver; padding: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0; float: left;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-yahoos-european-mobile-head-mitch-lazar-resigns\/\" title=\"Yahoo\" class=\"image_link image\" id=\"83146_4644\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/images\/editorial\/f_small\/yahoo46-s.jpg\" alt=\"Yahoo\" width=\"170\" height=\"116\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Lazar, Yahoo&#8217;s European Mobile managing director, is stepping down from his post after working at the company for four and a half years. <\/p>\n<p>Lazar marks one of many recent departures from Yahoo&#8217;s mobile group. Over the past year-or-so, departures range from all the way at the top, like Marco Boerries, Yahoo\u2019s EVP of the Connected Life Division, to its Chief Scientist Marc Davis to Steve Boom, SVP of Connected Life. And, only ten months after being promoted to global head of Yahoo (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.paidcontent.org\/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=YHOO\" class=\"ticker\" title=\"YHOO\">NSDQ: YHOO<\/a>) Mobile, David Ko gained the additional responsibility for all of Yahoo\u2019s content sites in North America.\n<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo <a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-if-microsoft-wants-yahoos-mobile-search-theyll-have-to-earn-it\/\" title=\"continues to operate its mobile search technology\">continues to operate its mobile search technology<\/a> on its own despite the company&#8217;s search partnership with Microsoft (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.paidcontent.org\/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=MSFT\" class=\"ticker\" title=\"MSFT\">NSDQ: MSFT<\/a>). However, Yahoo has the ability to tap Microsoft for mobile if it decides that makes sense in the future.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter sent to friends and colleagues, Lazar says he does not know what he will do next, but is taking time off and is considering moving back to the U.S. Lazar credits Yahoo for accomplishing a lot while he was there: &#8220;We didn\u2019t have much of a business when I joined, but we now have over 100 mobile search and ad deals around the globe with the genesis of those beginning right here in the UK. 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Lazar marks one of many recent departures from Yahoo&#8217;s mobile group. 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