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NEW YORK Former Amazon.com executive Jason Kilar has been named CEO of the NBC Universal/News Corp. joint online video venture set to launch this year, the companies said.
Beginning July 9, Kilar, who spent nearly a decade at Amazon, will head the still-unnamed Web initiative, which counts Yahoo, Time Warner’s AOL, Microsoft, MySpace, CNet and Comcast among its partners and is designed to rival Google’s YouTube. He will report to the venture’s board of directors, which includes News Corp.
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