{"id":528371,"date":"2010-04-14T21:13:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T01:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-04-15:article\/419-yahoos-former-european-mobile-head-mitch-lazar-lands-on-taptus-board"},"modified":"2010-04-14T21:13:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T01:13:47","slug":"yahoos-former-european-mobile-head-mitch-lazar-lands-on-taptus-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528371","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo&#8217;s Former European Mobile Head Mitch Lazar Lands On Taptu&#8217;s Board"},"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-former-european-mobile-head-mitch-lazar-lands-on-taptus-board\/\" title=\"UK-based Taptu Mobile Search Provider\" class=\"image_link image\" id=\"86386_6036\"><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\/_original\/uk-based-taptu-mobile-search-provider-o.png\" alt=\"UK-based Taptu Mobile Search Provider\" width=\"156\" height=\"170\" 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\u2019s European Mobile managing director, <a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-yahoos-european-mobile-head-mitch-lazar-resigns\/\" title=\"stepped down last month\">stepped down last month<\/a> after a major restructuring at the company led <a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-yahoo-disbands-mobile-group-as-part-of-reorganization\/\" title=\"to the disbanding of Yahoo's mobile group\">to the disbanding of Yahoo&#8217;s mobile group<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Now Lazar has resurfaced as a board member at <a href=\"http:\/\/taptu.com\/corp\/\" title=\"Taptu\">Taptu<\/a>, a mobile search company (a subject Lazar should know a little something about after working at Yahoo (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.paidcontent.org\/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=YHOO\" class=\"ticker\" title=\"YHOO\">NSDQ: YHOO<\/a>) for four and a half years). The Cambridge, UK-based company will tap into Lazar&#8217;s expertise as it tries to create specialized search technology for touchscreen devices. &#8220;Taptu\u2019s unique platform and index differentiate the company from the search giants,&#8221; he said.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/wheY6CgRp77TQKEZD1PHHfvw8Q0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/wheY6CgRp77TQKEZD1PHHfvw8Q0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/wheY6CgRp77TQKEZD1PHHfvw8Q0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/wheY6CgRp77TQKEZD1PHHfvw8Q0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=ZJmwe0rRJic:tE1yEHDpfmo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=ZJmwe0rRJic:tE1yEHDpfmo:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=ZJmwe0rRJic:tE1yEHDpfmo:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=ZJmwe0rRJic:tE1yEHDpfmo:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=ZJmwe0rRJic:tE1yEHDpfmo:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=ZJmwe0rRJic:tE1yEHDpfmo:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=ZJmwe0rRJic:tE1yEHDpfmo:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=ZJmwe0rRJic:tE1yEHDpfmo:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/moconews\/~4\/ZJmwe0rRJic\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch Lazar, Yahoo\u2019s European Mobile managing director, stepped down last month after a major restructuring at the company led to the disbanding of Yahoo&#8217;s mobile group. Now Lazar has resurfaced as a board member at Taptu, a mobile search company (a subject Lazar should know a little something about after working at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}