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Twilio Taps Say Media Vet Kirkpatrick as CFO

Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 14 at 5:00 am PT

Global expansion means it’s time to get serious about managing the finances. But first? Build a Twilio app.

Meet the Man I Call “The Hair”: The Video Stylings of Yahoo’s Newest CEO Ross Levinsohn

Kara Swisher in Media on May 13 at 12:03 pm PT

Here he is in living color!

Exclusive: Yahoo’s Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb Nears Completion

Kara Swisher in News on May 13 at 8:59 am PT

The final shoe — shoe store, really — drops.

Key Strategic — And Digitally Inclined — CBS Exec Lurie Departs

Kara Swisher in Media on May 8 at 6:00 am PT

Zander says goodbye to the media giant.

Exclusive: Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving Resigns

Kara Swisher in News on April 5 at 6:28 pm PT

Irving has left the purple building.

It’s Official: Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 Employees — 14 Percent of Workforce

Kara Swisher in News on April 4 at 6:22 am PT

CEO Scott Thompson promises that Yahoo, after staff cuts of 14 percent of the entire workforce, will be “smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require.”

Yahoo’s Layoffs Tomorrow Morning of up to 2,000 Will Only Be the First Move of a Larger Purge to Come

Kara Swisher in News on April 3 at 3:16 pm PT

A dark day will probably dawn by tomorrow in Sunnyvale.

Yahoo Layoffs Set to Begin Next Week, Followed by Restructuring the Week After

Kara Swisher in News on March 30 at 9:00 am PT

And so it begins.

Vaunted Yahoo Techie Departs for Microsoft (Surprised? Me Neither.)

Kara Swisher in News on March 19 at 8:29 pm PT

Raghu Ramakrishnan has left the purple building.

Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls “Puzzling” (Including Filing)

Kara Swisher in News on March 12 at 1:15 pm PT

In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive legal attack against the powerful social networking giant for intellectual property violations.