Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/01/admob_google_omar_hamoui/
AdMob main man walks away from Google
It's personal
Posted in Media, 1st November 2010 12:00 GMT
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The founder of Google-owned AdMob has quit the company citing “personal reasons”.
Omar Hamoui walked from Mountain View on Friday, nearly a year after Google announced plans to buy AdMob for $750m. It finally took over the outfit in May when the US Federal Trade Commission dropped its probe of the acquisition of the mobile ad network.
Google confirmed to TechCrunch [1] on Friday that AdMob’s CEO had resigned due to private matters.
“He built a fantastic business in a short period of time, and we wish him all the best,” Google said in a statement. “Mobile advertising – across search and display – is now a billion-dollar business for Google, with AdMob a key part of that.”
Hamoui wasn’t the only high-profile founder of a company acquired by Google to walk away from the firm late last week.
As we reported earlier, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley [2] stood down from day-to-day running of the popular video sharing site. ®