Söderström counters that Spotify "could have been profitable several times" but has chosen to invest everything in new staff (currently more than 1,000 worldwide), products and territories.
ADOBE SYSTEMS INC., San Jose, Calif., named Bruce Chizen, executive vice president for worldwide products and marketing, to the additional post of president, succeeding Charles M. Geschke, who is retiring.
Take operating systems for mobile phones: The #1 and #2 worldwide products – Google's Android and Apple's iOS – both come out of the valley.
Mr. Porter was head of worldwide product distribution at DreamWorks Animation SKG since 2007.
Mr. Narayen, 41, left, had been executive vice president for worldwide product marketing and development since 2001.
"It's something that's as big a brand to Apple as the Mac," is how Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, puts it.
Mr. Schiller, Apple's senior vice president for worldwide product marketing, entered the courtroom in San Jose, Calif., shortly after 9 a.m.
Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said last year, Apple executives once talked about making "crazy stuff," including an Apple car.
In a news release, Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president for worldwide product marketing, said his company was thrilled that Autodesk was bringing AutoCAD back to the Mac.
"This has nothing to do with proactively disabling a phone that is unlocked or hacked," Philip W. Schiller, Apple's senior vice president for worldwide product marketing, said in an interview.
But Lara Kahler, the company's worldwide product marketing manager, said that Bluetooth would not be widely adopted until travelers can use it to connect computers to the Internet through their cellphones.
