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Yahoo Prominent Brainiac Drain Continues: Goodbye to Broder, Mao

in News on March 27 at 10:34 am PT

The departures from Yahoo’s research units — which is the once-vaunted computer science arm of the Silicon Valley Internet giant that is facing big cost cuts — continues. This time, said sources, it’s Andrei Broder, VP of computational advertising and chief scientist of the Advertising Product Group, as well as Jianchang (JC) Mao, who heads advertising sciences. It is not clear where either is going. But this research talent drain comes as no surprise after Yahoo Labs head Prabhakar Raghavan left for Google. He was followed by others, such as Raghu Ramakrishnan, who went to Microsoft.

CEO Thompson Tells Yahoos “Real Change Is Coming” (It’s Exclusive Internal Memo Time!)

in News on March 15 at 5:06 am PT

The new leader addresses the nervous troops: Once more unto the breach, dear possibly laid-off Yahoos, once more …
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Searching for Market Share: Google Up, Microsoft’s Bing Up, Yahoo … Not Up

in News on March 9 at 6:00 am PT

What goes up must come down.
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Exclusive: Amid Layoffs in AOL’s AIM and Mail Ranks, Top Execs Shellen and Van Miltenburg to Also Depart

in News on March 8 at 7:02 pm PT

Another day, another, well, you know …
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Lucky 13: After More Than a Dozen Failing Quarters, How Will New Yahoo CEO Roll the Dice?

in News on January 23 at 1:49 pm PT

Maybe Yahoo should take its earnings to Vegas and bet it all on red!
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What Answers Will Investors Be Demand-ing in the Q3 Call Today?

in Media on November 7, 2011 at 6:13 am PT

With its stock reeling and some traffic issues, it’s been a tough quarter for the social content company.
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New Groupon Filing: ACSOI Dumped, Revenue and Subs Up, Losses Remain

in Commerce on August 10, 2011 at 8:16 am PT

As expected, Groupon gave up its controversial accounting metric in a new IPO filing, which also showed strong revenue and subscriber growth.
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Exclusive: Groupon Will Dump Controversial ACSOI Accounting in Amended IPO Filing

in Commerce on August 5, 2011 at 2:49 pm PT

The social buying phenom is planning to bid goodbye — and good riddance — to its lightning rod of an accounting metric.
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Don’t Look Away From the Devastation of the Netflix Price Hike (Video)

in News on July 28, 2011 at 10:18 am PT

Is the higher cost of DVD rental “literally the worst thing that has ever happened to white people”? If this spoof is right, give until it hurts!
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Not So Much on Groupon IPO Delay, But SEC Scrutiny Still a Drag

in Commerce on July 27, 2011 at 11:51 am PT

The Groupon public offering is still on schedule, despite a CNBC report saying it is delayed, but it is also not without its bumps.
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Brighter’s Jake Winebaum Talks About Tooth-Loving Start-Up (Video)

in Commerce, June 9, 2011 at 3:16 pm PT

Twitter Tells Advertisers to Dig Deeper: "Promoted Trends" Get a Price Hike

in Media, February 11, 2011 at 3:30 am PT

Stock Trades Near 52-week High on Message That It's an All "New eBay"

in Commerce, February 10, 2011 at 1:28 pm PT

INQ Mobile Decides to Friend Facebook and Spotify for New Android Phone (Video)

in Mobile, February 9, 2011 at 2:03 pm PT

AOL Says HuffPo Will Be a $50 Million Business This Year

‘With This App, I Thee Wed…’

in The Digital Solution, February 1, 2011 at 2:57 pm PT

Netflix Takes Aim at the Cable Guys, With a Promise to Start Firing Tomorrow

in Media, January 26, 2011 at 2:25 pm PT

Verizon’s iPhone Picture Comes Into Focus

in Mobile, January 26, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Android Market to Finally Get In-App Payments, Improved Discovery. When? "Soon."

in Social, January 25, 2011 at 5:46 pm PT

Seven Questions for Ric Telford, IBM’s VP of Cloud Services

in Enterprise, January 24, 2011 at 8:45 am PT

Guess What? Apple Now Takes in More for Each iPhone Than for iPad

in Mobile, January 20, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

The iPad Now Can Take Command of Computers

in Personal Technology, January 19, 2011 at 6:03 pm PT

Demand Media Clears SEC and Prices IPO

in News, January 12, 2011 at 7:06 am PT

Analyst: All the iPad Contenders Are Pretenders

in Mobile, January 10, 2011 at 12:23 pm PT

How Might the Verizon iPhone Differ From the iPhone 4 (Besides Being Able to Make Calls)?

in Mobile, January 10, 2011 at 6:00 am PT