Yahoo on Tuesday announced Ken Goldman as its new chief financial officer, replacing Tim Morse. Goldman, who has been CFO of threat management technology company Fortinet since 2007, will take start at Yahoo on Oct. 22. Prior to Fortinet, he was CFO of Siebel Systems for six years until the company’s acquisition by Oracle Crop. in 2006. Morse, who served as interim CEO at Yahoo from Sept. 2011 until January 2012 following the firing of Carol Bartz, had been CFO since June 2009.  He will leave the company later this fall. Goldman’s appointment is the latest top management hiring …

Atlantic Media Company today launched Quartz, its new publication geared primarily to tablets mobile phones and aimed at the international business class. Built with HTML5, the mobile Web app doesn’t require download but can be accessed at qz.com across devices and desktop computers. First announced in June, the slick-looking business site is also available via Flipboard and features Boeing, Cadillac, Chevron and Credit Suisse as launch sponsors. The publication debuts with a staff of 20 on the editorial side led by Kevin Delaney, former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Online. The content is organized by sections it …

RedMas, the digital ad unit of the Cisneros Group of Cos. this morning announced the acquisition of Kontextua, an online ad company operating a nework of contextual advertising in Latin America and Spain. The acquisition boosts Cisneros's digital presence in the U.S. Hispanic market and Latin America.

ABC's had some good and bad news concerning the "Emmys". The three-hour “The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards” was down 10% to a Nielsen preliminary 3.8 rating/9 share down from a 4.2 rating of a year ago. The good news was that ABC's total viewer total gained over Fox's results -- 13.2 million to 12.4 million. The Emmys big problem in recent years -- going against NBC's "Sunday Night Football". NBC's "SNF" went a bit lower week to week -- to a 8.1/20 down from a 8.9 rating a week ago. That said New England …

Bango said on Monday that its integration with Facebook to power mobile Web carrier billion is now live in the U.S., U.K. and Germany, with other countries to follow later this year. Bango first announced the partnership back in February, with the goal of streamlining mobile payments for Facebook mobile users.“This enables Facebook's mobile web users to easily purchase digital content without the use of premium SMS messages or the limitations of credit cards,” Bango said in announcing the service today. Compared to traditional carrier billing, which may involve a number of steps including SMS confirmation, Bango says its …

Apple today announced iPhone 5 sales reached a new opening weekend record of more than 5 million handsets including preorders. The company also said more than 100 million iOS devices have been updated to iOS 6 since the new version of the platform was released last week. Apple last week said it sold more than 2 million iPhones during the device’s first 24 hours of availability. However, some analysts suggested the company could sell up to 10 million iPhones through the weekend. Still, Apple CEO Tim Cook in a statement said demand for the iPhone 5 had outstripped initial …

Veteran sports media executive Ray Katz has sued Omnicom, its OMD and Optimum Sports subsidiaries and the former CFO of those units, Mark Amabile, for discrimination, wrongful termination and fraud in connection with his being laid off from his post as managing director at Optimum Sports in late 2009. Katz is seeking a minimum of $3 million plus attorney's fees and other costs, according to court papers filed in New York State Supreme Court earlier this month. Katz, a former NFL marketing executive and former CMO of The Football Network, worked at OMD's Optimum Sports unit for a little over …

American Express is among the latest brands—and first financial services company--to announce an integration with the new Apple’s new Passbook mobile wallet. The iOS 6 feature allows users to store things like airline boarding passes, movie tickets and coupons in one place instead of having to go through individual apps to find them. With its own offering for Passbook, AmEx, dubbed American Express Pass, aims to go a step farther by giving cardmembers access to account information-- recent spending updates, purchase notifications, real-time account balances, and customer service help on their iPhone or iPod. “This is an …

The Boston Globe will partner with MIT’s Center for Civic Media to develop new ideas for the newspaper’s Boston.com and BostonGlobe.com sites. Set to launch this fall, the Globe/MIT collaboration is meant to serve as model of how media organizations can work more closely with university thinkers. The project is funded with $250,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. It will be overseen by Jeff Moriarty, VP of digital initiatives at The Globe; Chris Marstall, creative technologist for the Globe, and Ethan Zuckerman, director of the MIT Center for Civic Media. "We see great promise in building …

Improved measurement is often cited as a condition for higher mobile ad spending. To that end, the Mobile Marketing Association has released a new primer on mobile analytics covering metrics related to the mobile Web, apps and messaging as well as factors such as location, time, and device. The whitepaper also addresses analytics in the emerging realm of m-commerce and mobile payments. “This paper establishes the groundwork on how marketers can leverage mobile analytics, tap into the tools in the mobile toolbox and apply the data to not only evolve their mobile experience but also evolve their entire …