Other hires from Google to Facebook include Ben Ling who is now director of platform product marketing and Ethan Beard, a former director of social media and now director of business development.
Apart from Mr. Birch, other techies ramping up night-life investments include Ryan Sarver, director of platform at Twitter Inc.
"We are betting big on the cloud with our most successful product, and we are investing heavily both in the product engineering side and the physical infrastructure side, " Tim O'Brien, Microsoft's senior director of platform strategy, said last year when the company first unveiled a Web-based version of its Office software.
Keller, 53, had been a director in the platform architecture group at Apple focusing on mobile products.
The server virtualization leader announced version 5 of its venerable hypervisor and version 1.5 of vCloud Director, its IaaS platform atop vSphere.
The activists, which include the organisation's executive director, reached the Prirazlomnaya platform by speedboat early on Friday.
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David Daoud, personal computing research director at IDC, is sceptical about the platform's prospects.
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Speaking on board the platform, Greenpeace International's Executive Director Kumi Naidoo said it was "not a question of if an oil spill will happen, but when".
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The Director-General's visit was concluded by her participation in the roundtable hosted by Tomorrow's Kyoto Cultural Heritage Platform, together with Mr. Koichiro Matsuura, the President of the Platform, Mr. Raitei Arima, Director of the Kyoto Buddhist Organization, Mr. Keiji Yamadan Governor of Kyoto Prefecture, Mr. Daisaku Kadokawa, Mayor of Kyoto, and Mr. Ghenshitsu Sen, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
"People who have been our gamers for a long time are also expanding their entertainment usage of the platform, " said Jaymi Bauer, Xbox director of product marketing for family experiences.
"For almost 30 years, the TETRIS game has been played by hundreds of millions of players across nearly every mobile and video gaming platform, " said Henk Rogers, Managing Director of The Tetris Company.
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These benchmarks make the Sun Fire servers the leading platform for Java applications, said Steve Campbell, director of enterprise systems and product marketing in the Systems Product Group at Sun.
Both tech entrepreneurs, Campbell was the president of QD3 Entertainment, a multi-platform media company, and formerly served as the Director of Business Development at Microsoft, while Watt previously co-founded MoviePass and NextMedium.
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Pinterest "is a marketing platform, " said Lawrence Lenihan, founder and managing director with FirstMark Capital, which invested early in Pinterest.
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For advertisers, the technology takes a lot of the legwork out of buying ad space, particularly across screens owned by multiple firms, said Mike Finnegan, director of product development at Xaxis, an online media-buying platform owned by WPP PLC.
But his 14.7% holding in the Queensland outfit, even if it provides a ready platform for his views on design and marketing as a nonexecutive director, has yet to give him a financial bounce.
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"I commend the Centre's capacity to act as an inclusive platform for interfaith dialogue since its recent establishment", said the Director-General.
"As one of the most widely used business PCs in the world, Dell Latitude brand laptops need to support a broad range of technology so our customers can connect virtually anywhere and at any time, and Qualcomm's Gobi platform helps us achieve this, " said Kirk Schell, executive director and general manager of Dell's Business Client Product Group.
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The Director-General was also presented with the "Appeal of Tomorrow's Kyoto Cultural Heritage Platform" by its President Mr. Koichiro Matsuura -- a Platform that was established to ensure the long-term protection of cultural heritage in the city of Kyoto following the earthquake and tsunami that affected Japan in March 2011.
"The Dell Precision R5500 offers the highest user density available on a XenServer certified platform for XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro, with four concurrent users per host, " said Derek Thorslund, director of product management, HDX technology at Citrix.
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