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Kara Swisher
Draw Something From This: Yahoo’s Design Chief Tim Parsey to Depart
After stabilizing the design culture at Yahoo amid much turmoil, the well-known user experience exec leaves the sketchbook to CEO Mayer.
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Hearst Taps Demand Media’s Bradford and Yucaipa’s Johnson to “Redefine” the San Francisco Chronicle
Can the City by the Bay finally get the newspaper it deserves?
Another VC Is Born: Well-Known Internet Exec Ben Ling Joins Khosla Ventures
The former Google, Facebook and Badoo exec is the second high-profile Silicon Valley operating exec the VC firm has hired of late.
Jawbone Hires Microsoft’s Mindy Mount as President to Turbocharge Ops
A new leader for the high-profile gadget maker.
Yahoo Hires Longtime McKinsey Exec DeVine to Head Global Ops
Exec ho! A new big hire at Yahoo.
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Yahoo 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 talent and expertise in a wide variety of arenas, including mobile, productivity and gaming. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but PlayerScale said on its blog that it would “continue to support our existing product,” which is Player.IO.Former Yahoo Shashi Seth to Join Tribune as President of New Digital Ventures Unit
A new investment arm of the media giant gets a new exec to find new ideas.
Vote on New Brangelina-Style Name for Tumblr and Yahoo: Yahumblr … TumHoo … Ham.Yum! … Swishr?
Hey, you hep Tumblr kids — help us help you!
Yahoo Back on to List of Top 100 Brands at No. 92, Though Apple Remains No. 1
It’s all about the BrandZ.
Start Spreading the News: Yahoo Gets New Times Square Office, Offers Free Terabyte on Flickr and Updates Design to Look Like 2013
If you can make it there … blah, blah, blah.
GE Ventures Officially Opens for Business in Silicon Valley (Video)
Apparently, they also bring good Internet of things to light.