Bryan Lamkin

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

Kara Swisher 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.

Yahoo Loses Another Exec

John Paczkowski in News on April 29, 2010 at 2:11 pm PT

There’s been another high-level departure at Yahoo. Bryan Lamkin, SVP, Consumer Products Group, is leaving the company after little more than a year on the job.

Yahoo Snags Citizen Sports

John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 17, 2010 at 10:39 am PT

BoomTown was right. Yahoo is indeed buying online sports site Citizen Sports, a developer of sports-related apps and games for Apple’s iPhone and for social networking sites like Facebook. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but as BoomTown noted on Monday, estimates put Citizen’s selling price at about $40 to $50 million.

Yahoo Confirms Xoopit Purchase

Kara Swisher in News on July 22, 2009 at 5:44 pm PT

Yahoo confirmed the news–first reported by BoomTown and in The Wall Street Journal last night–that it was buying Xoopit, the San Francisco social email company. And it did so in both a blog post and on Twitter, as you can see here: @karaswisher @jvascellaro Your scoops confirmed http://bit.ly/gpOT2. Well, thanks! But we are already onto new scoops, so try to keep up! The price for the acquisition, which Yahoo did not reveal, was about $20 million, according to sources.

Yahoo to Acquire Xoopit for About $20 Million

Kara Swisher in News on July 21, 2009 at 9:00 pm PT

Yahoo plans on announcing Thursday that it has bought Xoopit for a price in the $20 million range, according to several sources, one of its first acquisitions in a long while. Reached late this afternoon by BoomTown, a Yahoo spokeswoman declined to comment about the purchase. Xoopit did not respond to emails earlier today. But sources said it was a done deal to buy the San Francisco-based social email start-up that finds photos, videos, links and other files in email so that users can surface and then share them. Xoopit’s investors–Accel Partners and Foundation Capital, along with several angel investors–have pumped about $6.5 million into the company since 2006.

Yahoo Hires Adobe Vet Lamkin to Run Communications and Communities Unit as Dietzen Moves to Strategy Post

Kara Swisher in News on April 24, 2009 at 11:43 pm PT

More musical chairs at Yahoo, which BoomTown predicted recently, as top execs at the company move in and out of jobs, and new ones from the outside move in. Perhaps the most important change to occur is the replacement this week of SVP Scott Dietzen–who had been in charge of all communications and communities products at Yahoo–by former Adobe Systems exec Bryan Lamkin, several sources said. And there’s even more…