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It may yet prove to be a sign of things to come.

After a three-month search, Google Australia and NZ has hired a Murdoch group executive as its new managing director. Nick Leeder, former deputy chief executive of The Australian newspaper, will slip behind the executive desk in late March.

The controversial head of Telstra's communication division Dr Phil Burgess has quit and is returning to the USA.

Microsoft has given pink slips to 1,400 employees today with another 3,600 set to handed next month.

Telstra Chief Operating Officer Greg Winn is to return home to the United States at the end of this month, ending a three-and-a-half year association with the Telco giant.

Telstra has a new marketin boss after Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo today announced that Bill Stewart, the company's Group Managing Director (GMD), Strategic Marketing will leave the company at the end of the month, to return to his home and family in the United States. He wil be replaced by Kate McKenzie.

UPDATED: The PR executive at the centre of the $37 million sexual harassment claim against retailer David Jones and former CEO Mark McInnes appears to have fallen victim to her own PR.