I corrected the headline for one of the articles I published earlier today about an investment made by Bassel Ojjeh in ArabCrunch.NET.
Turns out Ojjeh is actually no longer senior vice president and head of Yahoo!’s strategic data solutions group. The man apparently left the company a few weeks ago but hadn’t yet found the time to change his LinkedIn profile.
Bassel Ojjeh started his career in the software business as developer and later senior manager of Fox Software, which merged with Microsoft in 1992. Ojjeh stayed with the company for another 8 years and went on to co-found digiMine, which later morphed into Revenue Science and changed names again some time after to finally settle for AudienceScience (for now).
Ojjeh was one of the co-founders of data mining and warehousing solutions provider DMX Group, a company that was acquired by Yahoo in August 2004.
He became senior vice president and head of the new business unit (strategic data solutions group or SDS group), whose team members were responsible for combing through the dozens terabytes of data that Yahoo users generate on a daily basis by clicking links, weeding out the relevant bits, compressing and storing it.
Ojjeh told me he’ll be engaging in a couple more angel investments in the USA and the Middle East, and that he’s currently already set to start a new company.
the outfit and the pose speak of dignity, but the name tag sideways issue just ruins the moment for me.
but the bow tie totally makes up for it
AHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. nice point.
I’m going to start wearing a bow tie and grow a beard.
If there was a caption it would have said Mr. Bassel as pictured was in the middle of a deep prayer.
“The man apparently left the company a few weeks ago but hadn’t yet found the time to change his LinkedIn profile.”
???. People donot change it for months.Do you want him to write an apology letter. Silly point.
Okay first is Mr. Icahn, now this man.. Who’s next? I Hope its Carol Bartz – please. The CEO who said “yahoo was never a search engine” yeah right. And the one who gives the “F” word on people giving an advice on her
http://bit.ly/i...l-bartz-a-loser
From the time she was appointed the CEO, I was sure Y! will go on a slippery slope (other were a bit hesitant to say it) but now we are seeing the real side of the story.
WOW, you got a point there, Me and my colleagues got infuriated when this CEO blurted YAHOO WAS NEVER A SEARCH ENGINE, well in fact on the 90’s it was the GOOGLE.
such a shame to see this company fall – I wouldn’t be surprise when Microsoft buy this company, piece by piece
Yahoo? ……oh yeah……that thing from the 1990’s.
I knew Bassel since a long time, he is a big loss for Yahoo.
His intentions to invest in the middle east and the arabic world would really be very helpful to the region.
Anyways, his name tag doesn’t mater! how silly is to consider that anyhow!
it ruins the whole setup of the picture. dignity is lost.
This is a HUGE loss for Yahoo…Bassel has a great track record and has done amazing work at Microsoft and Yahoo. He is an entrepreneur at heart and this doesn;t surprise me.
WOW, you got a point there, Me and my colleagues got infuriated when this CEO blurted YAHOO WAS NEVER A SEARCH ENGINE, well in fact on the 90’s it was the GOOGLE.
such a shame to see this company fall – I wouldn’t be surprise when Microsoft buy this company, piece by piece
Your ArabCrunch article doesn’t seem to be there anymore (your link here was broken.) Any idea what the correct URL is, or was the post removed entirely?
Thanks.
YaHoO! is always up to something. Don’t they always compete with other major search engines?
Yes, I can se that Arabcrunch.net article has been removed.
Would you please explain why did you remove it ?
This article is about the outfit and the bowtie. People, please stay on point and limit your comments to his undignified appearance.
What shame. This man, in his undignified manner, brings shame to the muslim world and to Allah. How dare he now muster the nerves to involve himself in Arabcrunch.com.
One companies loss… is another’s gain. I look forward to the projects Mr. Ojjeh is going to be involved in…
But what happened to the post about the new Social Media platform for Arab Techies (ArabCrunch.net)? That’s pretty big news for the ME which has a strong vibe about it… and is a great place for US based VC firms to tap into and fund new ideas, projects and startups.
Is it at a new location? or removed entirely…?