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MapQuest Realigning

A month after employees leaked a story that AOL would begin trimming back staff at MapQuest in an attempt to "realign" the direction of the Denver-based online mapping provider, I discovered today that Jim Griener, the former GM, has moved on to begin his own mobile content sharing and social networking start-up called RockeTalk.  Christian Dwyer succeeds Jim as MapQuest's new GM.  Given Christian's background with the B2B and enterprise side of MapQuest's market development activities and sales efforts, could it be the AOL mothership has made these moves as part of a plan to dump the Web and Mobile consumer mapping efforts it once prided itself upon?       

Posted on Mon, July 28, 2008 at 1:39PM by Registered CommenterJonathan Spinney in | CommentsPost a Comment

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