Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Blake Krikorian has quit the
board of Amazon.com Inc about a year and a half after joining to take up
an unspecified role at the buyer of a company he owned.
Krikorian,
known for co-founding Sling Media in 2004, informed the rest of the
board on Wednesday of his intention to resign, Amazon said in a Friday
filing.
Spokesman Ty Rogers added that the serial entrepreneur,
whose latest endeavor is home-automation startup id8 Group R2 Studios
Inc, has sold a company and quit in order to take up a position at the
acquirer. He did not name the company involved or the buyer.
The
Wall Street Journal reported last week that Krikorian's year-old startup
was in acquisition discussions with Amazon rivals Apple Inc, Google Inc
and Microsoft Corp. It cited sources as saying the trio of tech
powerhouses coveted R2 Studios' home-oriented technology as they
expanded their own forays into living-room media entertainment.
R2
Studios recently launched a Google Android application to allow users
to control home heating and lighting systems from their smartphone.
Krikorian's Sling Media which was sold to EchoStar Communications in
2007 made the "Slingbox" for watching TV on computers.
Krikorian,
known also for doing double duty as an angel investor, joined Amazon's
board in September of last year, a move hailed as helping propel
Amazon's own substantial efforts in online media.
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