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Yahoo Is Teed Up to Buy a Sports Site–BoomTown Is Betting on Citizen Sports for the Score!

Kara Swisher in News on March 15, 2010 at 3:48 pm PT

According to numerous sources inside and outside the company, Yahoo is poised to slam dunk–I apologize, but sports puns are so easy–an acquisition of an online sports site this week. And, predicted several of those sources, it is likely to be San Francisco-based Citizen Sports, a maker of popular apps and games that allow fans to interact on the Apple iPhone and Facebook.

Former Yahoo Tech Star Eric Boyd to Microsoft (via Mochi Media)

Kara Swisher in News on September 8, 2009 at 12:44 pm PT

Eric Boyd (pictured here), a high-profile techie from Yahoo who left the company for a start-up last year, is now headed to Microsoft to work for its digital group, now run by another ex-Yahoo, Qi Lu. UPDATE: Microsoft confirmed the hiring, although declined to provide further details. Boyd–who is well-known for his card-counting team exploits while at MIT (which was later made into a movie)–had been VP of platform engineering at Yahoo and worked on a variety of projects there. With the addition of Boyd, sources said, Microsoft has acquired a huge swath of the top tech talent of Yahoo, many of whom came to the software giant because of Lu and to also escape the turmoil at Yahoo.