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Exclusive: Yahoo Loses M&A Head to Zynga

in News on April 7, 2011 at 10:34 am PT

Taylor Barada, Yahoo’s recently appointed head of M&A, is joining Zynga in an unspecified role. Barada replaced Andrew Siegel, who left Yahoo earlier this year to join Condé Nast Yahoo staff was told of the move yesterday.

New Miramax CEO Lang Talks Digital Options for Movie Company

in News on December 9, 2010 at 5:02 am PT

While the news has been be out there for a month, Miramax officially confirmed this morning that former News Corp. exec Mike Lang was named CEO of the Hollywood movie company. What will be interesting about that for digital content players will be to see exactly what the man who was deeply involved in deals to buy the Myspace social networking site and also create the Hulu premium video service will do with Miramax’s rich trove of more than 700 award-winning films in its movie library.

The HP Wink-Wink Nudge-Nudge Scandal's Real Victims: The Shareholders

in News on August 9, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

Of course, because Silicon Valley is possibly the least sexy of places, any whiff of a scandal involving a powerful CEO and a blonde model/actress/cougar/contractor is going to get the lion’s share of the attention in the coverage. Thus, the resignation Friday of Hewlett-Packard head Mark Hurd and the private settlement with consultant Jodie Fisher have morphed into a juicy summer potboiler. Today, when the markets open, we’ll see if any of it matters to Wall Street or if investors have moved on to trying to determine the next moves for the tech giant and its leadership.

A “Do Not Call The FTC About Facebook Privacy” Registry? Great Idea, Tim.

in News on May 10, 2010 at 10:50 am PT

Perfect. Facebook has enlisted a former senior Bush administration regulator to defend its privacy practices in Washington. Tim Muris, who served as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission from 2001 to 2004 and created the popular U.S. Do Not Call Registry, is advising the company, whose privacy disclosures and fast and loose handling of user data are increasingly drawing scrutiny on Capitol Hill.

Meet the VCs: Accel Partners' Kevin Efrusy

in News on March 22, 2010 at 9:17 am PT

BoomTown runs into venture capitalists all the time in Silicon Valley and elsewhere and usually tries to run the other way. Not so last week, when I enjoyed a lovely lunch and chat with Accel Partners’ Kevin Efrusy, the former entrepreneur and techie who is making a lot of investments in both the social consumer space and the enterprise arena. Here’s the video.

Exclusive: Yahoo Working on Major Brand Overhaul (Pretty Please, No More Yodeling!)

in News on June 24, 2009 at 7:39 pm PT

In what many sources at the company said is a major push, Yahoo is working on a massive plan to overhaul its brand in order to repair a damaged public image and focus consumers on what defines Yahoo. The effort is being spearheaded by newly installed Chief Marketing Officer Elisa Steele, who has hired well-known brand consulting firm Landor Associates, as well as an outside consultant named Penny Baldwin, who was a former top exec at brand and ad giant Young & Rubicam.
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DailyCandy CEO Pete Sheinbaum Steps Down

in Media on May 6, 2009 at 3:44 am PT

DailyCandy CEO Pete Sheinbaum is leaving the company, less than a year after Comcast bought the fashion and shopping newsletter from Bob Pittman’s Pilot Group Ventures for $125 million. His last day is Friday. Sheinbaum, who started working for the company as a consultant in 2000 and took the top job in 2005, says he doesn’t have a new job lined up yet. “I let them know after nine years it was time to look for the next thing,” he says via email. No word yet on a replacement.
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The 168-Hour Work Week

in News on December 15, 2008 at 11:34 am PT

If the line between your work and home life hasn’t yet been blurred by near-ubiquitous Internet connectivity, just you wait. Because by 2020 it’s likely to have been erased entirely. That’s the word from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, whose recent “Future of the Internet III” study suggests that the dawn of the mobile phone as a “primary” Internet connection will essentially obliterate the boundaries between work and home.