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At today’s all-hands meeting for Yahoo employees — in the wake of the dramatic ouster of its former CEO Scott Thompson — what pop culture icon did new interim CEO Ross Levinson use to loosen up the crowd? Why a little Al Pacino from mov... 0 Published 10 days ago in
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Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson just sent this email to Yahoo employees, about a new leadership organization for the company. “It’s time for Yahoo! to move forward, and fast,” wrote Thompson (using punctuation I really like, with nice comma de... 0 Published 45 days ago in
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Walt Mossberg and I could not be more thrilled to announce that Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, will be the opening-night speaker at our 10th D: All Things Digital conference. It will be Cook’s first appearance at D, as well as his first time being onstag... 0 Published 45 days ago in
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If you want a quick analysis of why Facebook would pay $1 billion for popular photo-sharing service Instagram, please ignore the obvious financials that just don’t add up at all and have most of the typically unshockable digerati shocked by the she... 0 Published 45 days ago in
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According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving has turned in his resignation and it has been accepted by the company. The process for Irving’s departure is a bit more formal since he is a top officer a... 0 Published 49 days ago in
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According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo’s massive round of layoffs — which is likely to impact up to 2,000 employees — is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg that will hit the storied Silicon Valley Internet giant in the m... 0 Published 51 days ago in
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Yahoo is preparing to begin layoffs of what could be thousands of employees starting next week, according to multiple sources, and is then expected to announce a new restructuring of the company the week after. The swirl at the Silicon Valley Internet gi... 0 Published 56 days ago in
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Here is one of the more fantastic appearances by the talented Samantha Bee of “The Daily Show,” on the controversy about Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop’s proposal to ban Israeli products because of its persecution of Palestinians... 0 Published 58 days ago in
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The departures from Yahoo’s research units — which is the once vaunted computer science arm of the Silicon Valley Internet giant that is facing big cost cuts — continues. This time, said sources, it’s Andrei Broder, VP of computati... 0 Published 59 days ago in
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Oh, just watch — the pregnancy of the “Jersey Shore” star as seen via Google Chrome commercial — from the funny folks at College Humor. Now, that’s evil! 0 Published 60 days ago in
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Top Yahoo product exec Bill Shaughnessy, who recently left the Silicon Valley Internet giant, is joining eHealth as president and COO. Shaughnessy, who will also become a board member at the online health insurance company, was SVP of product management a... 0 Published 62 days ago in
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In a memo to his staff today, Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving said that the major planned changes he was making to the unit, which I reported about here, were going to get tabled. That’s due to the larger restructuring being done by... 0 Published 70 days ago in
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Tomorrow, as part of the commitment that AllThingsD has to providing its readers with ever more high-quality content, this site will be launching a new reviews section, All Things Reviewed. Simply put, we’re building on the consumer tech reviews we... 0 Published 74 days ago in
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According to sources, AOL will be announcing that it is making cuts of up to 40 employees in its communication products teams, specifically its AIM instant messaging and AOL Mail units. As part of the changes, its SVP of business operations Eric van Milt... 0 Published 77 days ago in
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These kinds of exec departures are definitely going to get to be more regular as Yahoo’s restructuring looms, so here is today’s adieu: Luis Salazar, VP of global product marketing and business development. He’s well-regarded at the comp... 0 Published 77 days ago in
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Bill Shaughnessy, who is Yahoo’s SVP of product management, is leaving the company, according to an internal memo he sent out this morning to staff. The former Microsoft exec came to the Silicon Valley Internet giant in mid-2010, part of the team as... 0 Published 79 days ago in
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Yahoo celebrated its 17th birthday last Friday and — in spite of some seriously troubling changes going on at the Silicon Valley Internet giant — the fantastic employees got together for a flash mob of dancing. Set to a number of songs, inclu... 0 Published 80 days ago in
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It was Yahoo legal head Mike Callahan who had the thankless task yesterday of calling Facebook’s general counsel Ted Ullyot to tell him the Silicon Valley Internet giant was intent on pursuing patent lawsuits against the social networking giant. Th... 0 Published 87 days ago in
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PeopleMatter said it has raised $14 million in a Series C funding, which was led by Morgenthaler Ventures. The Charleston, S.C.-based software company, which focuses on hourly workers, said the new investment will be used for product innovation and custo... 0 Published 88 days ago in
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Twitter has hired two high-profile Google execs — Shailesh Rao and Stephen McIntrye — to lead an aggressive international expansion in advertising. Rao (pictured here) will be joining the online communications network as VP of international re... 0 Published 92 days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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. 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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 ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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“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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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 ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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.... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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 ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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 ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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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... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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