Habbo Hotel's CEO Checks Out, Disney Exec Takes His Room

Sulake, the Finnish company which operates the Habbo Hotel teen virtual world, is swapping its CEO. Timo Soininen, who has led the group for the last 10 years, is stepping down to the board of directors, replaced by Paul LaFontaine, a VP for global distribution at Disney’s social network games maker Playdom. The company did not give a reason for the switch. But one wonders whether LaFontaine’s...