Napoleon once described the UK as a “nation of shopkeepers”, so it is somewhat fitting that this is where Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has gone to find its next retail supremo.

Demand Media is known for churning lots of content through its sites, but today it’s notable for another churn, of the executive kind: three of the people who helped found and build up the company are leaving.

Jon Rubinstein, the former Palm CEO who revived the company under WebOS but was never able to produce a breakthrough product after HP paid $1.2 billion for Palm, is leaving HP (NYSE: HPQ). His departure is not exactly a surprise, coming six months after he was reassigned just before HP…

—ESPN: The sports network is seeing a reorg: John Kosner has been promoted to EVP, digital and print media, from SVP and GM of the divisions. Marie Donoghue has been promoted to SVP, global strategy, from SVP, business affairs and business development. Meanwhile, longtime leaders John Wildhack and Norby Williamson…

In a surprise move, The Weather Channel Companies is swapping out CEOs. David Kenny is replacing Mike Kelly as CEO effective immediately; the Akamai-Digitas vet also will be chairman of the company owned by a consortium of Bain Capital, The Blackstone Group, and NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Universal.

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), as it winds up as a troubled joint venture to become fully part of Sony, is spinning out some talent in the process: it’s understood that Anderson Teixeira, formerly an executive that had run different regional operations for the JV, is now Apple’s first…

The AP announced this morning that chief executive Tom Curley will depart later this year and that its Board of Directors has formed a search committee that will be led by board member and Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) CEO Mary Junck.

RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) today held its first official call in the wake of the news last night that it had decided to appoint a new CEO, Thorsten Heins, with its co-CEOs, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis resigning from their joint position in the role.

Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) has finally decided to get serious about its predicament: co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are stepping aside after a disastrous year in which the company squandered its once-dominant position in the smartphone market.  

The reverb from Kevin Delaney’s departure from the Wall Street Journal for Atlantic Media Group just hit DC: WSJ alum Raju Narisetti is headed back to the Journal, swapping his role as managing editor of the Washington Post responsible for digital for managing editor of The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ:…

—HookLogic: Jeff Griffin joins in the new position of president of retail. Most recently, he co-founded Interpublic Group’s Shopper Science. Prior to that, Griffin was SVP of Premier Retail Networks (PRN). —SwoopThat.com: Book publishing vet Dan Farley is joining the San Diego-based college textbook price comparison startup as EVP, business…

Investors won’t have Jerry Yang to blame anymore. In a stunning move announced after the markets closed, the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) co-founder resigned from the company’s board of directors and from all other positions—effective immediately. Just as quickly, Yahoo’s stock jumped in after-hours trading.

Twitter looks like it is ramping up its staffing and operations in the UK: today it was announced that the company will be making a new hire, Lewis Wiltshire, who oversees social media for BBC Sport. The loss is a keen one for the BBC: among Wiltshire’s responsibilities, he was…

Wenner Media is filling the chief digital officer position that Michael Bloom left in November, after just six months on the job: David Kang, who was Hearst’s creative director of content extensions for less than a year, will take on the role starting January 20.

Today it was revealed that Paul Berry, the longtime-CTO of AOL’s Huffington Post, will be leaving his role at the news site, along with the unrelated departure of the site’s managing editor, Nico Pitney. We spoke to Paul earlier about the social-media focused startup that he plans to launch next,…

—Discovery Communications: Andrew Warren, former Liz Claiborne CFO and GE/NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Universal executive, joins as senior executive vice president and CFO, effective March 26. He succeeds Brad Singer, who is leaving the company at the end of March. As part of a larger restructuring following the elimination of the…

Sprint (NYSE: S) is retrenching a bit following an exhausting year for the company, combining its consumer and business divisions in a move designed to save cash that also recognizes the nature of the modern smartphone buyer.

In a move that further sets up Kazuo Hirai as the heir apparent at Sony (NYSE: SNE), the company has promoted him to president, taking that title away from Howard Stringer but keeping Stringer in place as CEO and chairman of the board, according to a report.

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have looked westwards for its latest CEO—the Canadian, ex-Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executive Stephen Elop—but, in picking its new chairman, it appears the handset maker may remain Finn.