Kara Swisher

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Yahoo Prominent Brainiac Drain Continues: Goodbye to Broder, Mao

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 computational advertising and chief scientist of the Advertising Product Group, as well as Jianchang (JC) Mao, who heads advertising sciences. It is not clear where either is going. But this research talent drain comes as no surprise after Yahoo Labs head Prabhakar Raghavan left for Google. He was followed by others, such as Raghu Ramakrishnan, who went to Microsoft. Yahoo declined to comment, as usual — but it is spot-on!

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There’s a lot of attention and PR around Marissa, but their product lineup just kind of blows.

— Om Malik on Bloomberg TV, talking about Yahoo, the September issue of Vogue Magazine, and our overdependence on Google