Yahoo’s Ad Platform Is in Limbo, but Right Media Dude Brian Silver Is Moving Forward (Video)

He got the job in January and it’s been a wild ride since.
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Exclusive: Groupon’s IPO Road Show Set for Next Week

Oh, it’s on.
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It’s Called Google Propeller and It’s Aimed at Flipboard (and Facebook, Too, Natch)

Whhhheeeeeeeee! Up, up in the sky, its Google’s Flipboard killer, which also might strafe Facebook, too!
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Adobe Acquires Electronic Signature Start-Up EchoSign

Adobe has bought EchoSign, an electronic signature start-up, for an undisclosed price. The San Francisco-based company said it will integrate EchoSign — which has three million users — into its document exchange services platform, as part of a push toward a paperless workflow.

Liveblogging Yahoo's Q1 Earnings Call: Get Me to Funky Town

MicroHoo is funky! At least according to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz on the Silicon Valley search giant’s first-quarter earnings conference call about its recent financial performance. Yahoo’s results showed a continued worrisome revenue growth stall, due in large part to a search advertising fall-off, and a still-turning turnaround.

Microsoft Takes Another Stab at Selling Its Own Ads–By Getting Someone Else to Do It

Microsoft starts up its own “real time” advertising exchange, just like Google has. But instead of running it itself, Redmond is handing the work to AppNexus.

Still Strong: Microsoft Beat Estimates as Quarterly Sales Neared $20 Billion

Microsoft on Thursday reported earnings and revenue that topped expectations and rose significantly from a year ago amid strong sales from its Xbox and Office units. However, Microsoft’s outlook was limited, offering specific guidance only for operating expenses.

When It Wasn't Stuffing Cars, EMC Was Doing Real Business

Aside from producing oddly funny onstage stunts, storage company EMC launched 41 new enterprise products at its New York event yesterday.

Meet Todd McKinnon, CEO of Cloud Management Start-Up Okta

Todd McKinnon saw the first phase of the cloud computing revolution close up. After six years as head of engineering at Salesforce.com, he’s struck out on his own to give companies large and small the tools they need to take advantage of the cloud.

Google Offers a Cloud-Based Safety Net for Microsoft Exchange

Google is launching an email continuity service that takes over when Microsoft’s Exchange servers invariably fail or go down for maintenance. And by replicating a corporate email system within Gmail, it appears to be a migration tool that makes it just that much easier to drop Exchange and move to Google Apps.

Exclusive: Google Buys Invite Media

Google Eyeing Invite Media?