Tuesday, November 29, 2011

WebOS app development chief Michael Rizkalla flees to Xobni.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.



It’s clear the uncertainty is not a way to retain talent. 

The latest sign is the departure of Michael Rizkalla, the former senior director of webOS application development at HP, who just started at Xobni, where he will be its senior director of mobile applications, according to his LinkedIn profile. Xobni tries to make inboxes and addresses books smarter on Outlook and BlackBerry through its software and recently introduced apps for Gmail and Android. Rizkalla exit follows the retirement of Chief Strategy and Technology Officer Shane Robinson and the departure of Richard Kerris, vice president, Worldwide Developer Relations for webOS. 

At Palm and HP, Rizkalla was responsible for shipping some of the core apps on webOS and previously led the development of webOS 2.0. Now, it looks like he’ll be heading up engineering for Xobni’s mobile products. 

How many other talented people leave the webOS team before any decision to keep it or discard it becomes moot?

Source: gigaom

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