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Yahoo Product Unit Readies Major Exec Reorg -- But It's Just a Tremor for the Big One to Come

Yahoo’s massive product unit is readying a major reorganization, which will include a new structure, a move that is being spearheaded by its Chief Product Officer Blake Irving.
But the ground under Irving, as well as several of the Silicon Valley I...
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Honest: Jessica Alba's Now an E-Commerce Geek (Video)

From the Web 1.0 Matt Damon-Ben Affleck debacle to the stunt-casting of Justin Timberlake as a Myspace impresario and everything in between, I have been more than dubious about any online effort by a celebrity.
Not surprisingly, it is usually a lot of s...
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As Weak Q4 Earnings Loom, Yahoo Freezes Hiring and Also Contemplates Layoffs

According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo has instituted a hiring freeze across the company and is considering a reduction in force in support units of the company.
While the details of any layoffs — which are expected to be small and sel...
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Is Facebook IPO on Track for Late May?

According to multiple sources, the long anticipated public offering of Facebook is now likely to come in the third week of May.
That means that the company must file its IPO documents within the next month, given the review by the Securities and Exchang...
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Autocowrecks: Phone Float FAIL

I was going to buy the phone to put it in my own aquarium so that my fish could use it BUT I GUESS IT WON’T BE SO MUCH FUN FOR MY FISH NOW.

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Confirmed: Yahoo Names PayPal Head Scott Thompson as New CEO

As I reported late last night, Yahoo said it had named PayPal President Scott Thompson as its new CEO. The exec is currently in charge of the large eBay online payments unit.
He’ll start next week, but there are staff conference calls today and als...
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Liveblogging the New Yahoo CEO Call: You Might Want to Refrain From Cussing, Scott!

This morning, Yahoo said it had hired PayPal President Scott Thompson as its newest victim, oops, CEO.
(You can read my interview with him too, here.)
AllThingsD.com had reported the pending development last night — which is how we roll here.
Now ...
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Exclusive: Yahoo Poised to Name CEO -- With EBay's PayPal Prez as Top Choice

According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo is poised to name a CEO, an announcement that could come as early as tomorrow morning.
Sources said the leading candidate likely to get the nod is a dark horse and someone who has not been named in previ...
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Not the iPad 3 or New TV -- But Apple Planning Media-Related Event in the Big(ger) Apple This Month

According to sources close to the situation, Apple is planning an important — but not large-scale — event to be held in New York at the end of this month that will focus on a media-related announcement.
Per the usual caveat, the tech giant i...
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Here Are Some More Yahoo CEO Choices: Liddell, Rosenblatt, Desmond

It’s the typically newsless time around Christmas and New Year’s, but for once there has actually been a lot going on at Yahoo.
Last week, the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s typically moribund board decided to move ahead with negotiati...
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Yahoo Intensifies Search for CEO (With Hulu's Kilar as One Dream Unicorn Candidate)

Whatever you want to call him or her — a silver bullet, the cure or, as I like to say, the last unicorn — Yahoo’s ever-seeking and never-deciding board has now renewed its focus on finding a new CEO.
Also on the docket: Working on a dea...
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Airbnb Hires Former Yahoo Legal Eagle Belinda Johnson as General Counsel

Airbnb, the San Francisco online vacation rentals start-up, said it has hired a key former Yahoo lawyer, Belinda Johnson, as its new general counsel.
The legal issues at Airbnb are both interesting and challenging, all around the new arena of global shar...
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frida plumm

I’m a sucker for beautiful patterns, and this new Troika collection from Frida Plumm is just gorgeous. The tins of stationery would be perfect holiday gifts (or really nice stocking stuffers), and the platters are great for housewarming presents. C...
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Google's News Reader -- Now Called Currents -- Finally Coming
I was wrong about the rollout timing — I had reported mid-November (sorry, Sean!) — but Google’s entrant into the news reader space is finally set to launch as soon as tomorrow. Sources said the product, which was codenamed Propeller and...
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Google Currents News Reader Debuts (Phew!)

As I reported this morning it was close to launching, Google has debuted its news reader product, which is called Google Currents. In a blog post, the search giant said that the new product, which will compete with many others, including as Flipboard, Ya...
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Three Months After Bartz's Firing, It's Hurry Up and Wait at Yahoo (A Big Honking Update)

“Let’s go. Yes, let’s go.” [They do not move.]
– Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot”
In Internet terms, the removal of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz happened a dog’s age ago.
In fact, it was September 6.
Since the...
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Wealthfront Finally Launches, Aimed at Silicon Valley's "Richie Rich" Newbies

Wealthfront, the Silicon Valley start-up with more than $10 million in its own kitty, finally officially launched its long-planned Online Financial Advisor product today, with a focus on attracting techies interested in more easily managing their money.
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Viral Video: Shrieking Monkeys Don't Make Good Gifts

This is a commercial, for sure, and it came from a PR pitch that begin with the words, “shrieking monkeys.” But this video for a photo books product made be laugh out loud.
And it was not only the shrieking monkey part. I also liked the nail ...
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From iPods to Thermostats: Nest CEO and Founder Tony Fadell Speaks! (Video)

When Tony Fadell left Apple for good in March of last year, the man who has been dubbed the “father of the iPod” said in an interview that his “primary focus will be helping the environment by working with consumer green-tech companies....
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Circling the TV Ads: Google+ Hawks Itself (Video)

Google, which doesn’t do a lot of this kind of advertising, has posted a commercial on television for its social networking effort, Google+.
The search giant has done it before for its Chrome browser and other products, but it’s a rare occurr...
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For Yahoo (and Me Too), Time Is Brain

I hate to use a personal story to make a professional point — but when I was in the hospital recently after suffering from a mini-stroke, I got an important piece of health advice that, oddly enough, applies perfectly to Yahoo, the Silicon Valley I...
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Samsung's Won-Pyo Hong on the Mobile Phone Wars: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

We are now posting the full videos from the recent AsiaD conference, which took place in Hong Kong in October.
Over the next week or so, we’re going to follow the schedule of the actual event. Up now: Samsung mobile head Won-Pyo Hong.
Samsung is th...
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Horse Flash: Apple's Steve Jobs on Adobe Vendetta in 2010 at D8 (Video)

At a 2010 onstage interview with Walt Mossberg and me at the eighth D: All Things Digital conference, the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs spent a lot of time — and with considerable passion — talking about his company’s decision to dump Adobe...
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Adobe Admits It Is Saying Buh-Bye to Flash for Mobile Devices

In a blog post by one of its execs, titled “Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5,” Adobe said what had already been reported: That it would no longer be developing its well-known Flash ...
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Twitter and Square Guru Jack Dorsey on Steve Jobs, China and More: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

We are now posting the full videos from the recent AsiaD conference, which took place in Hong Kong in October.
Over the next week or so, we’re going to follow the schedule of the actual event. Up now: Twitter and Square inventor Jack Dorsey.
The bu...
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Jawbone Debuts UP, Which Tracks, Well, You (Video)

Jawbone, the San Francisco mobile products company famous for the Jawbone mobile headsets and the Jambox wireless speakers, introduced its latest offering today called UP.
The company had previously shown off the small $99 wristband and an Apple iPhone a...
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Asana Launches to Public -- Finally Moving Out of Private Beta

Asana, the high-profile group collaboration start-up founded by former Facebook execs, is moving out of private beta after a year, and will launch to the general public.
Currently in use by thousands of users at hundreds of beta companies, Asana said it ...
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Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt Joins Kno Board

Former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt will join the board of Kno, the online education start-up.
He is currently the principal at REH Advisors.
The Silicon Valley-based Kno began its life offering a student-aimed tablet and educat...
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Yahoo Shares Melt as Rumors Collide (Plus, I Add Another Log to the Fire)

Do sale rumors make a troubled asset more attractive? Yes — except when more rumors (that those sales rumors might not be true) appear.
Welcome to just another day in the life of Yahoo, which saw its shares drop more than 5.5 percent today. Its sto...
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On The Verge of a New Tech Site, Which Finally Debuts

Tonight at 1 am PT, techies who have nothing else to do — that would be me! — can click onto a brand new tech site called The Verge.
Well, kind of — it’s the result of many months of work by the gang that defected from AOL’s...
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Spooking Flipboard: Yahoo's Livestand and Google's Propeller Set to Launch Next Week

Memo to Flipboard, as well as Pulse, CNN’s Zite and AOL’s Editions: You might want to make some room in the already-crowded news and social reader space, because you’re about to get some bigfoot company.
Next Wednesday, according to sou...
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Viral Video: Microsoft Songsmith Demo (Justin Bieber Can Relax Now)

Some things you cannot even make up. Take, for instance, this achingly awkward demo video for Microsoft’s Songsmith software.
[Update: The video has now been removed from YouTube. Can't imagine why ...]
Released several years ago, Songsmith is a pr...
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No to YESS -- Yahoo Employee Satisfaction Survey Shows Morale Morass

It should probably come as no surprise to the board and top managers of Yahoo that the just-released annual poll of its workers — called the Yahoo Employee Satisfaction Survey — paints a picture of a deeply demoralized workplace.
Apparently,...
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Exclusive: Like Marketing, Yahoo's Customer Advocacy Org Gets Sliced and Diced This Week

As happened last week to its centralized marketing division, Yahoo has broken up its Customer Advocacy organization, with its staff distributed to the various regions and the product unit of the Silicon Valley Internet giant.
The Customer Advocacy has be...
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new prints from kari herer

I’ve blogged about photographer Kari Herer before, and I said that what I loved most about her prints were their dark, velvety textures. I now have to amend that thought and say that Kari is equally adept at bringing out the lushness in light surfa...
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Condom Pillows


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All Eyes on Yahoo's Q3 Earnings Tomorrow, With Results Under Pressure

Tomorrow, after the markets close, Yahoo will announce its third-quarter earnings, perhaps one of its more important reports in recent years.
Wall Street analysts are expecting the Silicon Valley Internet giant to report earnings of 17 cents per share on...
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Exclusive: Yahoo CTO Out, But Stays EIR at Company

Yahoo CTO Raymie Stata is stepping down as CTO of the Silicon Valley Internet giant, the company confirmed this afternoon, after I made a query about the change.
He will be replaced by Ash Munshi, Yahoo said.
In a statement, the company said:
“Raym...
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Candom

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Exclusive: Yahoo Hires Heidrick & Struggles for CEO Search

According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo has hired Heidrick & Struggles for its CEO search.
It will be a dicey job, since the effort is on a separate track than the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s wide-ranging strategic review, which...
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Tech Is Glamour-ous: Mag Hosts Panel on Women in Tech (Video)

Earlier this week, I flew to New York to moderate a panel on women in tech for Glamour, part of an article I did for the magazine’s recent issue.
As loyal readers know, I now and then get a bee in my bonnet about the issue of gender imbalance in te...
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As Skype Skips Through Approvals -- What's the Deal With the Deal?

As expected, the European Commission approved Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype late last week.
Next, the deal for the popular Internet communications company — which had previously been cleared by U.S. regulators — is likel...
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Final AsiaD Speakers: Apple's Phil Schiller and Former VP Al Gore

And then there was Schiller and Gore.
That would be Apple’s SVP of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller and former Vice President Al Gore, who round out the stellar list of speakers at our upcoming AsiaD conference.
Taking place from Oct. 19 t...
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Even If He's Not at Apple Event, Steve Jobs Sure Knows How to Put on a Show

In the forefront of everyone’s mind covering the Apple event today, there is probably a fervent little wish that at some point its legendary co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs will saunter on out to take a much-deserved bow.
That seems unlikely for...
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Attention Shoppers: Coupons.com Grabs $30M in Funding From Greylock

Among the hot and hyped Web 2.0 scene, not many would pick out 13-year-old digital promotions site, Coupons.com.
But, on the heels of a recent $200 million funding — which valued the quiet Mountain View, Calif., company at $1 billion — and a ...
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we love mail competition from newspaper taxi

It doesn’t matter how far we delve into digital devices for media and communication; I think I will always feel a little rush of excitement when the mailman comes, and the hope that maybe I received a package or a note from someone unexpected. The ...
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Things That Are Doing It: It’s So HARD To Put Down!

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Manties?


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When Attrition Attacks: Yahoo's Latin America Head Departs

According to sources close to the situation, Guilherme Ribenboim, VP and managing director of Latin America and U.S. Hispanic markets, has left Yahoo for another job at a start-up.
The 12-year Yahoo veteran, who is located in Brazil, is widely respected ...
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