Skyfire, a company that brings a rich web browsing experience to smartphones, just announced a new chief executive — Jeffrey Glueck, who left his position as Travelocity’s chief marketing officer earlier this year. Nitin Bhandari, who co-founded the Mountain View, Calif. company and served as its chief executive until now, will remain involved as Skyfire’s chief product officer. The company tells me Bhandari always planned to focus on product and hand the CEO role over to someone else once Skyfire got off the ground. And with a browser that has more than 1 million users and recently left beta testing, Skyfire is certainly off to a good start. Full story...
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