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ComScore Appoints 360i Chairman Bryan Wiener as CEO - WSJ

ComScore Appoints 360i Chairman Bryan Wiener as CEO - WSJ ComScore   Inc.   SCOR  8.78%   has tapped board member and digital agency veteran Bryan Wiener as its new chief executive, as the media-measurement company tries to move past years  of accounting irregularities . Mr. Wiener is currently executive chairman of  Dentsu   Inc.  -owned ad and media agency 360i, and he has been on comScore’s board since October 2017. ComScore has been without a CEO since November, when co-founder Gian Fulgoni retired from the position. In his new role, Mr. Wiener will be charged with turning the business around following a string of accounting crises and losses. ComScore recently released its first annual report in three years, after an internal investigation uncovered improper accounting practices. The Wall Street Journal in August 2015  first called attention to comScore’s practice  of recording “nonmonetary revenue,” which came from data-swapping ...

Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech | WIRED

Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech | WIRED : That week, managers emailed the entire marketing and cloud departments, denying the women's claims. On the morning of the town hall, Lorraine Twohill, the head of marketing at Google, also sent a department-wide email saying Stapleton's claims were false. “Over the last several weeks, I have spent a lot of time talking to everyone involved, trying to understand and empathize with the situation,” she wrote. Stapleton says Twohill never asked her about the incidents surrounding her claims of retaliation. After that, Stapleton saw no future for herself at YouTube. She handed in her resignation three weeks later. In mid-July, Whittaker resigned too. The next day Google happened to announce definitively that Project Dragonfly was dead. By then, few of the major organizers of the protests that had shaken Google over the past two years were left at the company. But that didn't mean things would go bac...