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Yahoo CEO Mayer Cuts End-of-Year "Week of Rest" for Employees, While Prepping...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is now starting to unveil the flip side of free lunches and smartphones, with two employee-focused moves that are a little more tough love in nature. According to several...
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Will the "Marissa Mayer Premium"— or Is It Those Hedge Fund Dudes Piling in —...
They like her, they really like her. Wall Street, that is, in regards to new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, assigning the former Google exec a clear premium. And whether it is deserved or not yet from a...
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Can the Hedge Fund Dudes Save Groupon’s Stock?
Here’s something you haven’t seen in a while: Groupon shares rose more than 36 percent last week after Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global Management disclosed Monday that it had bought 65 million shares....
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Signs You’re on the Computer Too Much (Comic)
Continued here: Signs You’re on the Computer Too Much (Comic)
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Marissa Mayer’s First Live Interview (Which ATD Had to Virtually Sneak Into):...
Tonight, new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gave her first public interview since becoming the leader of the troubled Silicon Valley Internet giant. Not to cranky me, of course, but to the much more amenable...
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Yahoo Ordered to Pay $2.7 Billion (Yes, Billion) by Mexican Court
It’s hard to say how serious this is right now, but Yahoo was ordered to pay $2.7 billion in a lawsuit related to a breach of contract and lost profits of a yellow pages listing service by Worldwide...
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Yahoo Messenger Getting Less Chatty With Loss of Windows Live...
Yahoo is dropping several features that have been part of its Messenger chat service, the company confirmed in a Friday evening blog post . The “phone in” and “phone out” capabilities, offered through...
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New Yahoo Homepage Nears Launch: Here’s the Latest Version
As I previously reported , the Yahoo homepage — which is a mix of mobile-friendly online styles from Microsoft’s Windows 8 to Flipboard to Pinterest — is close to its official launch, perhaps as early...
View ArticleYahoo Strikes Media Deal With NBC Sports
As we predicted back in October , Yahoo and NBC Sports announced on Sunday that the two companies will pair up for future sports coverage, combining Yahoo’s Web-based sports reporting with NBC’s...
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Max Levchin Says Marissa Mayer’s "Very Ballsy Move" to CEO of Yahoo Was the...
When I asked him to talk to me about why he decided to finally became a director at Yahoo, after what was a very long mulling that started even before former Google exec Marissa Mayer became CEO, Max...
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With $3 Million More in Funding, Stipple Aims to Tag the Visual Web
Photos are so hot right now. Obvious, yes. Look at Facebook and Instagram . Look at Twitter and filters . Look at Yahoo’s new Flickr app . There are photos everywhere. Problem is, there are few direct...
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MobileMobileMobile: Yahoo Eyes Hipster Teen-Founded Summly News App
When she’s not board-swapping, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been scouring the landscape for trendy mobile “acqhires” to give the sleepy Silicon Valley Internet giant some sizzle. And you can’t get more...
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Twitter Shuffles Top Brass With New COO and CFO Appointments
Joi Ito/Flickr Newly dubbed Twitter COO Ali Rowghani. In move that shuffles some of the highest ranking members of the microblogging start-up’s executive team, Ali Rowghani has been named chief...
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Searching for Relevance: Yahoo Aiming to Be the "Google of Content"
Earlier today in Germany, new Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro pretty much told a crowd at the DLD conference in Munich that the portal — which he is now responsible for helping run — needs a drastic...
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Rubicon Project Adds Two Top Execs, as Ad Tech Company Moves Toward IPO
The Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project has hired two execs to fill top spots at the digital advertising company, in what looks like preparations for an eventual public offering. Greg Raifman, the...
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Another Big Ad Tech Bet? Yup: DataXu Raises $27 Million.
Here’s yet another ad tech company raising a bunch of money, long after everyone said that investors are done with ad tech. Today’s example: DataXu, a four-year-old Boston company that’s announcing a...
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A Pair of Top Yahoos Depart, While Another Is Promoted (With More to Come)
According to sources, two high-ranking Yahoo execs have departed the company — longtime strategy exec Raymond Stern and advertising exec Liz Ritzcovan . Stern — whose recent Yahoo title has been SVP...
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When Mayer Called Yahoo’s Mobile Revenue "Nascent," She Wasn’t Kidding (And...
On Yahoo’s recent fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO Marissa Mayer called the company’s mobile efforts a “nascent source of revenue,” a theme she reiterated in her appearance earlier this week at a...
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Which Entertainment Show Is the Most Flattering to Celebrities?
Poor celebrities. It doesn’t matter how much they spend on their clothes or work out at the gym. Sooner or later they’re going to flash a little too much skin or be caught without makeup in public,...
View ArticleYahoo Leans on Facebook in Revamp of Home Page
Yahoo on Wednesday morning plans to unveil a much-awaited overhaul to its iconic home page, as Chief Executive Marissa Mayer looks to reverse a long-term decline in the time people spend on many of...
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