CEO

$$FB$$ Has Arrived: So Now What?

Mike Isaac in Social on May 18 at 5:01 am PT

Relationship Status: Public.

Will Thompson’s Ouster Mean a Yahoo-Facebook Patent Settlement, Too?

Mike Isaac in News on May 13 at 11:00 am PT

If the next Yahoo CEO doesn’t want to go to the mattresses like its just-ousted one, it could mean peace with Facebook.

Exclusive: Workday Picks Its Bankers for a Fall 2012 IPO

Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 10 at 11:04 am PT

Having started a search for bankers in December, Workday has settled on four who will take it through the IPO process, starting with an S-1 filing expected in mid-July.

Yahoo’s Q1 Earnings: New CEO Will Get Some Satisfaction!

Kara Swisher in News on April 17 at 2:06 pm PT

New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is making list and taking names.

Voices

Best Buy Probes CEO Relationship

Miguel Bustillo, Joann S. Lublin and Ann Zimmerman, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 12 at 4:20 pm PT

Best Buy Co.’s investigation into the personal conduct of former Chief Executive Brian Dunn is exploring whether he misused company assets in the course of an alleged relationship with a female subordinate, people familiar with the matter said.

How to Find Out if Your Mac Is in the Infected 1 Percent

Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 10 at 12:59 pm PT

Kasperky Labs launches a Web-based tool to detect and remove the infamous Flashfake malware. Still no sign of the long-predicted security apocalypse on the Mac.

Larry Page Says Google Is Lovable, Not Evil

Peter Kafka in Social on April 5 at 1:26 pm PT

A 3,459-word update from Google’s CEO. One word that doesn’t make the cut: “Facebook.”

News Byte

Reddit Lands Facebook Vet Yishan Wong as CEO

Peter Kafka in Media on March 8 at 3:03 pm PT

Reddit has a new CEO. Former Facebook engineer Yishan Wong is joining the rapidly growing social news site, which owner Conde Nast is spinning out as a separate company — in part, so it could recruit people like Wong. “I’m not looking to step in and make ‘big, bold changes’ — I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline,” Wong wrote on a blog post announcing his move.