Marino has also essentially rebuilt the entire executive team, hiring Greg Kearney, senior vice president of technology, Katrino Osio, senior vice president of marketing, and Julie Shumaker, senior vice president and general manager of media.

FORBES: RockYou Names Lisa Marino New CEO

"Slingbox is still the best way to extend the entire living room TV experience anywhere, " said Sling Media's Senior Vice President and General Manager, Raghu Tarra.

ENGADGET: Sling Media officially unveils the Slingbox 350 and 500 HD

"These new features bring instant, additional value to Slingbox 500 and Slingbox 350 customers at no extra cost and position Slingbox firmly as a device of choice in the living room, " said Sling Media's Senior Vice President and General Manager Raghu Tarra.

ENGADGET: Slingboxes get My Media syncing to USB, Companion iPad app for at-home viewing

At a media event in Beijing earlier today, Senior Product Manager Yufei Wang confirmed that his company's next flagship SoC will enter mass production in late May, but he refused to comment on which upcoming devices will feature it.

ENGADGET: Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 to enter mass production in late May

Based on current sales, the first half of this year will bring a rise in digital ad sales of about 30% says Chuck Cordray, senior vice president and general manager of Hearst Magazines Digital Media.

FORBES: Ad sales for May are up 17%--and climbing.

Many of those agencies have boosted their social media presence significantly within the last two to three years, said Nancy Kolb, a senior program manager for the IACP.

MSN: Police embrace emerging social media tool

The media-modeling tool was kicked into high gear two years ago when Chad Jacoby, senior manager of Nissan's Business Intelligence Unit, used years of Nissan's consumer research to build a computer model comparing the relationship of each phase of their "purchase funnel"--from awareness to purchase consideration to a transaction--to the phase before it.

FORBES: Ad Vantage

Schiller, who is currently senior vice president and general manager of NYTimes.com, will take the reins at a challenging time for media organizations, as well as the economy as a whole.

NPR: 'Times' Exec Vivian Schiller Named NPR CEO