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TaskRabbit Hires Google's Brown-Philpot in a Renewed Management Expansion...
TaskRabbit, the San Francisco-based marketplace for personal projects and services, has hired longtime Google exec Stacy Brown-Philpot as COO. As both its funding and also competition have increased,...
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Jawbone "Acqhires" Data and Digital Design Firms Massive Health, Visere
Jawbone, maker of trendy audio devices and, more recently, a wearable fitness band, has acquired two companies focused on digital design and data analysis for an undisclosed amount. One of the...
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Exclusive: In Yet Another Internal Hire, Yahoo's Mayer Makes Mann Search Head
Longtime Yahoo techie Laurence “Laurie” Mann, who has recently been SVP of engineering operations at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, has been given the new job of heading its search efforts,...
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Facebook Snaps Up Talent From Social Startup Storylane
Facebook’s M&A team is on the move again. This time, the social giant has made a talent acquisition, snapping up five employees, including the founder, from the social startup Storylane. “The team...
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Loose Lips: Yahoo M&A Head Told Employees Company Looking at Two...
Lost in the sauce of the national work-from-home debate of last week that engulfed all things Yahoo, was a fascinating tidbit that several employees passed on to me from a recent Friday FYI meeting at...
View ArticleDeveloperAuction Raises $2.7M for Novel Talent Marketplace
DeveloperAuction matches engineers and job openings through a process that involves curating a pool of candidates for two-week “auction” periods, requiring employers to specify an offer value before...
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Outbox: Yahoo Mail Head Sharma Leaves Company
According to numerous sources, Vivek Sharma, who is GM of the powerful Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger products, has left the company. It’s not clear where Sharma — who has been at the Silicon Valley...
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Elissa Murphy, One of Yahoo's High-Profile Tech Execs, Heads to Go Daddy as...
One of Yahoo’s top women execs, Elissa Murphy, who is VP of engineering for cloud services, is departing the Silicon Valley Internet giant to become CTO and head of platform efforts at Go Daddy, said...
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Time 100 List Is Packed With Techies -- From Musk to Systrom to Sandberg and...
While the tale of a print magazine embedded in a troubled media company makes for much better reading, everyone loves a listicle. So, Time has once again put out its annual countdown of the 100 “most...
View ArticleYahoo Scoops Up Another Small Startup: Gaming Platform PlayerScale
Yahoo said it had bought PlayerScale, a small gaming infrastructure startup for cross-platform gaming. Yahoo has been on a bit of a tear in buying up small companies for low prices, to strengthen its...
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Yahoo's Bid for Hulu in $600M to $800M Range -- Even as It Preps Other Big...
According to numerous sources close to the situation, Yahoo has bid from $600 million to $800 million for the premium video site Hulu. The reason for the wide range is due to the fact that the Silicon...
View ArticleKatieCam: Troy Carter Dishes on the Best Cheesesteak in Philly
Troy Carter, who is Lady Gaga’s manager and the founder of Atom Factory, appeared today at D: All Things Digital alongside two other music managers: Scooter Braun and Guy Oseary. After the interview,...
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Yahoo Offer to Buy Contact Startup Xobni Is at a Price of $30M to $40M
According to numerous sources close to the company, Yahoo is offering to pay $30 million to $40 million for the maker of address book apps and plugins. That’s below the more than $40 million raised by...
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Silver Lake Abandons Hulu Purchase Effort, as Final Bidding Deadline Arrives...
According to sources close to the situation, Silver Lake will not make a follow-on bid to buy the Hulu premium video service. The giant private equity firm had been allied in the effort with the...
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Yahoo's Former GC Callahan Places His Bid With Online Real Estate Marketplace...
Michael Callahan, Yahoo’s former longtime and powerful general counsel, has taken a job as EVP and chief legal officer at Auction.com, one of the top online real estate marketplaces. He oversees...
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Update: Xobni Price Paid by Yahoo Was $48 Million in Cash, Plus Possible...
According to people close to the situation, Yahoo paid just over $48 million in cash for Xobni, and has promised its staff of 32 many millions more in stock for earn-outs if they stay at the company...
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Yahoo Q2 Earnings Call: The Marissa and Ken Show, Now in Living Color
Yahoo is just starting the analyst call of its Q2 earnings, which were pretty lackluster. But CEO Marissa Mayer, who is awfully good at this kind of thing, has ginned up the excitement nonetheless,...
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Exclusive: Yahoo Loses Its Media Head, as Mickie Rosen Ankles From Company
According to sources, Yahoo’s media head Mickie Rosen is leaving the Silicon Valley Internet giant. Rosen, who reported to COO Henrique De Castro, is one of the highest-ranking execs to depart the...
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Yahoo Paid $60M to $70M for Rockmelt -- Will Dump Browser and Use Tech to...
According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo paid $60 million to $70 million for social browser startup Rockmelt, with an aim of using its technology to turbocharge its myriad of media and...
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The ZuckerPAC Says It Cares About All Immigrants, Not Just the Techies
Silicon Valley has a problem. There are many jobs to fill, and not enough talented engineers to fill them. That is, at least in part, why Mark Zuckerberg and a host of tech luminaries founded and...
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After Big Fundraising, Uber Hires CFO From Google
Uber has grabbed Google VP, treasurer and chief accountant Brent Callinicos as its CFO. Presumably, it’s to keep track of all the big funding of $258 million the San Francisco transportation logistics...
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Twitter Doles Out Stock Grants to Keep Top Talent
Twitter’s eventual day in the IPO sun is closer than ever. And the company is doing all it can to keep the forecast as pleasant as possible — including keeping its top employees happy. Twitter has...
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Earnings and Revenue Down -- Yahoo Delivers on Expected Lackluster Third Quarter
Yahoo met weak financial expectations, turning in what can only be described as lackluster performance in its third-quarter earnings report today. The Silicon Valley Internet giant said it earned 34...
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MarissaTV, the Yahoo Q3 News -- If It Bleeds, It Definitely Does Not Lead
Time to hear Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer explain its third-quarter performance, which was, well, not very good. Down revenue, down profits — decidedly unimpressive. But Mayer is decidedly not, especially...
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LinkedIn Launches a Set of Mobile Recruiting Products
LinkedIn unveiled two new mobile recruiting products on Wednesday morning, continuing the company’s push into bringing its site and services to mobile devices. The apps are aimed primarily at talent...
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