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Exclusive: Disney Acquires “Sophisticated” Mommy Blog Platform Babble Media

in Media on November 14, 2011 at 6:45 am PT

Organic arugula alert: Disney’s interactive unit is calling all urban hipster parents!
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Lloyd Braun's Not Going to Take It Anymore: "I Am Not an Umbrella Thief" (and He's Not, Actually)

in News on December 19, 2008 at 10:16 am PT

There it was again–like the gnarly ghost of Christmas past–in the Los Angeles Times this week. But this time Lloyd Braun wasn’t going to take it anymore. The object of his ire was dropped right in the middle of a blog post about how Yahoo was “reversing its Hollywoodification” at its Santa Monica media unit offices. The piece also included old allegations from a devastating story in November of 2005 about Braun, which made him look like a digital version of Ari Gold from “Entourage.” Unfortunately, as BoomTown has found out, the bulk of those juicy anecdotes about him don’t actually check out. And therein lies a complex tale that still reverberates at Yahoo today.

Scratch Jerry Yang for Post-CEO "Dancing With the Stars" Gig

in News on August 7, 2008 at 12:43 am PT

Dancing and making a video about dancing is obviously something that elevates Yahoo, which is no small thing in this tough period for the iconic Internet company. In this video, Blog Editor Nicki Dugan takes the well-known dancing-fool Internet celeb Matt Harding of the Where the Hell Is Matt? Web site and places him all over Yahoo for 33 dancing sessions. The video was recently shown at the company’s all-hands meeting, and it is simply delightful to see Yahoos looking happy simply by tripping the light fantastic. I think activist shareholder Carl Icahn should make Harding one of his picks for the Yahoo board.