8 posts and columns on brain drain

Liveblogging the New Yahoo CEO Call: You Might Want to Refrain From Cussing, Scott!

in News on January 4 at 7:01 am PT

Mind your P’s and Q’s and Y’s too!
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For Yahoo (And Me, Too), Time Is Brain

in News on November 23, 2011 at 2:38 pm PT

Yahoo has about 30 working days to make what has to be a complex and multiparty deal, in an effort that is akin to herding cats.
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Yahoo Shares Melt as Rumors Collide (Plus, I Add Another Log to the Fire)

in News on October 31, 2011 at 5:13 pm PT

The Hamlet of Internet companies asks: To be or not to be? That is the question. Or maybe something else.
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Ongoing Brain Drain Claims Yahoo Finance Head

in News on September 8, 2010 at 8:12 pm PT

Another significant departure from Yahoo: Steve Schultz, who was GM of its important and powerful Yahoo Finance unit, has left the company to become COO of Pageonce, an online personal-finance “assistant.” Schultz is one of a string of leaders at the Silicon Valley Internet giant who have departed in recent months.

Another MySpacer Says Buh-Bye: Marketing Head Angela Courtin Departs

in News on May 5, 2010 at 12:19 pm PT

At this point, BoomTown just needs to create a form for talent departing from MySpace and Yahoo. As in: Part of an ongoing brain drain, sources said, BLANK EXEC is heading out the door of the troubled Internet company. Filling in the blank today at MySpace: Angela Courtin, SVP of Marketing, Entertainment and Content, who, according to sources, is ankling away from the social networking giant.

Yahoo CEO Trash-Talks Web Rivals–But That Won't Stop the Company's Troubling Brain Drain

in News on April 30, 2010 at 5:31 am PT

Say what you will about the status of her effort to turn the company around, but Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz certainly has gumption by the truckload. Which perhaps is not always such a good thing. Because although adept at throwing verbals stinkbombs at rivals, it still doesn’t make Yahoo’s talent exodus any less troubling.

Time to Poach a Few More Googlers, Eh, Mark?

in News on October 6, 2008 at 2:11 pm PT

Facebook manager Justin Rosenstein once described the social network as “the Google of yesterday, the Microsoft of long ago.” Today, Rosenstein perhaps views it as the Facebook of So Totally Last Week, because he’s leaving the company, along with departing Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.