Yahoo Cuts Four Percent Of Its Workforce
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is confirming what has been an open secret for most of the day — that it has cut about 600 employees, or roughly four pe… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 12.14.10
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» Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) layoff rumors are surfacing again: the word now is 600 to 700 job cuts, way down from the 2,500 that were br… Read more »
Yahoo’s Former M&A Chief Surfaces At Advance Publications
Andrew Siegel, the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) M&A chief who announced late last month that he was leaving, is now taking the top M&A job at Conde Na… Read more »
Zynga’s David Ko On Mobile M&A, Future Platforms, And Google
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Zynga, the darling of online social games with 45 million daily active users, has been a relatively late entrant in the mobile space, with i… Read more »
Yahoo Redoubles On Mobile: Local Push, New Ads, And New Stats On Mobile Use
Yahoo’s story in mobile advertising hasn’t exactly been a zinger of late: figures from IDC published earlier in the week note that as the mo… Read more »
Yahoo Overhauls Its Local Pages; Downplays Business Reviews
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is overhauling the look and much of the content of its local pages. The “new Yahoo Local,” which is beginning to roll out… Read more »
Google Widens Its Lead In Mobile Ads; Bulk Of Money Is Online, Not In Apps
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) announced in Q3 that it was on track to make $1 billion in mobile advertising this year; now figures just out from IDC r… Read more »
Yahoo M&A Chief Siegel Reportedly Out
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Andrew Siegel, a former GE executive who joined Yahoo as its M&A chief last October, is now apparently leaving the company. Yahoo (NSDQ: YHO… Read more »
Delicious Founder Schachter Gets Backing For A New Social Startup
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Joshua Schachter, who sold Delicious to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) five years ago is starting again with a new social startup, Tasty Labs. Schachter… Read more »
Homepage Ads: Bigger Might Actually Be Better; MSN Lags Portal Rivals
For the past few months, AOL (NYSE: AOL), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) have turned to huge takeover ads as a way to attract p… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Disney/Gowalla; GetJar/Yahoo; Twitter
– Disney/Gowalla: Disney (NYSE: DIS) Parks is teaming up with location service Gowalla to add a free “check-in” feature to hundreds of site… Read more »
Armstrong: The Old M&A Strategy Didn’t Make Sense; AOL Spent $9 Billion
AOL (NYSE: AOL) spent an astounding $9 billion in the last decade on an M&A strategy that didn’t make much sense, said CEO Tim Armstrong in… Read more »
Peter Chernin To Old Media: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
That ventures like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) TV make traditional media companies justifiably anxious was actually the go… Read more »
Associated Content Rebrands As ‘Yahoo Contributor Network’
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has completed the integration of freelance aggregator Associated Content and is rebranding it the Yahoo Contributor Netwo… Read more »
Facebook E-Mail As Gmail Killer? Unlikely
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It’s now apparently an open secret that Facebook will launch some sort of e-mail service at an event Monday. TechCrunch, which had reported… Read more »
Yahoo Music’s Bronikowski Jumps To AOL
With another wave of layoffs apparently about to hit Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Jeff Bronikowski is leaving his post after just 8 months as the hea… Read more »
Major Yahoo Layoffs Reportedly On The Way
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz said last fall that the company — which has had three major rounds of layoffs since 2008 — was “done” w… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: FiOS; Breaking News; Mr Bean; Yahoo/Android
– FiOS: Verizon has enabled its IPTV service so that customers can now download video to their smartphones, tablets and other wireless devi… Read more »
Yahoo Hires Time Inc’s Powers As U.S. Sales SVP
Another big hire for Yahoo: Wayne Powers, the president of Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.’s Media Group, is joining Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) as its SVP for… Read more »
Digital Home: Google TV’s Queiroz: ‘It’s TV And Web, Not TV Vs. Web’
The web is rapidly merging with television, and the economic, technological, and legal barriers that have kept consumers’ internet experienc… Read more »
AOL’s Interest In Yahoo Advances — A Bit
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The last we heard about Yahoo possibly being in play, there was talk that AOL (NYSE: AOL) might be interested. That interest apparently has… Read more »
Our Digital Entertainment Digest 11.05.10
Here’s our take on some of the latest news at the intersection of technology and entertainment:
» ‘Megamind’ Invades Farmville: Dream… Read more »
It’s Official: Ross Levinsohn Joins Yahoo As Hilary Schneider’s Successor
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Ross Levinsohn is coming in from the investment cold for one of the top jobs at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), EVP-Yahoo Americas. The ex-News Corp (NS… Read more »
Yahoo Gives Aging Mail Another Upgrade
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), which had said a major revamp of Yahoo Mail was on the way, is now rolling out the new look. The company boasts that its… Read more »
Social Search Startup HeyStaks Raises $1.4 Million
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HeyStaks, a startup that helps users collaborate while searching the web, has raised $1.4 million in a funding round. HeyStaks users install… Read more »
Bartz: ‘Do I Look Like A Wimp? I Am Here To Stay’
Asked by Fox Business about a “cacophony of analysts screaming and yelling about her grace period is over, is she going to go” Yahoo (NSDQ:… Read more »
The Likely Winners And Losers In The Over-The-Top TV Market
Jim Louderback is the CEO of Revision3. Prior to that, he served as SVP & chief content officer for Ziff Davis Media Read more »
Yahoo’s Bartz: ‘One Byproduct Of Change Is Always Movement Of People’
Under pressure from frustrated investors, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz started off her company’s earnings call this afternoon by defen… Read more »
Yahoo Says Display Ad Sales Up 17 Percent
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), which has been under pressure to turn around its flagging performance, couldn’t afford to disappoint Wall Street this qu… Read more »
Yahoo To Offer A Facebook Connect-Like Service
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It looks like Yahoo’s “social strategy” is going to go beyond integrating third-party services like Facebook and Twitter across its sites. T… Read more »
Dossett Latest Ex-Yahoo To Join IPO-Bound Demand Media
The adventurous Jeff Dossett is changing paths again. The new gig: SVP for content partnerships at IPO-bound Demand Media, where he is repor… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.15.10
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» As expected, Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) Television Group has acquired a majority stake in UK production company Shed Media. [The… Read more »
Analysts Bearish On Probability Of A Yahoo Takeover
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has hired Goldman Sachs to handle possible interest from suitors looking to take it over, Bloomberg says, but most of the… Read more »
The Big App Debate And The Low-End Theory At CTIA 2010 (Plus Photos!)
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Now that the week-long CTIA Enterprise & Applications is far behind us and we’ve gotten over the post-conference flu, here’s our recap on ev… Read more »
Possible Buyers — Including AOL — Are Looking At Yahoo
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Yahoo’s stock is now up more than 10 percent in after-hours trading — on top of a 5 percent jump during the day — as buzz mounts that a nu… Read more »
More Video Apps Come Calling Despite Unclear Market Opportunity
There’s been a lot of fast followers jumping on the video-calling bandwagon since Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) released the iPhone 4 with FaceTime (NY… Read more »
Charting The Bartz Upheaval
Under Carol Bartz, who took over as CEO in January 2009, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has seen a seemingly endless number of executives coming and goi… Read more »
Yahoo’s Katz: A Year Ago We Could Name All Our Mobile Advertisers
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How much has mobile advertising taken off? Ask Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Mobile’s VP of Americas David Katz: “A year ago, we knew all of the advert… Read more »
Yahoo Makes Its Search Results More Visual
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has repeatedly said that even when it completely integrates Microsoft’s back-end technology its search results will disti… Read more »
Sprint’s New ID Service Is Not About The Apps, It’s About Targeted Ads
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Sprint (NYSE: S) unveiled a new service today at CTIA called “Sprint ID,” which bundles packs of applications together around a theme, so th… Read more »
