{"id":798,"date":"2007-07-27T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-27T22:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T20:31:00","slug":"google-sa-gets-a-new-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/798-google-sa-gets-a-new-boss.html","title":{"rendered":"Google SA gets a new boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the day, Masie had confirmed his resignation from software house Novell and his appointment as general manager for Google in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> had advertised three posts in South Africa on its jobs site. These included a country manager, vertical account manager and a multisector vertical head. Currently, the company has no available posts listed for the Africa region.<\/p>\n<p>Novell SA&#39;s marketing and channel manager, Trish Barwick, said on Friday the company is &quot;honoured&quot; that one of its people has been selected to open Google&#39;s local office.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are sad to see him go; but very excited about what he will be doing,&quot; she told ITWeb.<\/p>\n<p>Google chairperson and CEO Eric Schmidt was recruited in 2001 by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin from Novell, where he had held the same positions.<\/p>\n<p>Google was unavailable for comment on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=82474\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google South Africa has a new face at the top: Stafford Masie, previously Novell SA country manager, is now heading up the local operations of the internet search giant, ITWeb reported on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}