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Y Combinator’s Demo Day Gets Supersized

Liz Gannes in News on March 27 at 3:00 am PT

Today a considerable slice of the early stage Internet technology world heads to Mountain View, Calif., to see the latest batch of Y Combinator start-ups.

Exec Is “An Uber for TaskRabbit”

Liz Gannes in Commerce on February 29 at 9:22 am PT

Justin Kan, who you may remember as the eponymous co-founder of Justin.tv, is onto his next start-up. It’s an iPhone app called Exec that helps people complete tasks on demand.

Viral Video: Watch the Bouncing Web Execs Play Digital Musical Chairs

Kara Swisher in News on June 19, 2009 at 3:32 pm PT

Here’s a very funny video, called “Digital Media Musical Chairs,” from a Wall Street type who goes by the code name L. McDuff. It’s about the many switcheroos in recent years among the execs at the big Web outfits like Google, Time Warner unit AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft . And when you look at it from a “Hollywood Squares” point of view, it’s kind of is amazing to realize that there are only about a dozen Internet execs moving in and out of the various jobs.

Ex-Yahoo Ad Exec Karnstedt to Efficient Frontier

Kara Swisher in News on April 2, 2009 at 11:16 am PT

Former top Yahoo advertising exec David Karnstedt, who has been parked at a Silicon Valley venture firm since he left the company, has been named president and CEO of Efficient Frontier. Interestingly, another former Yahoo exec, Ellen Siminoff, has also been CEO at the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based search engine marketing firm. She is now chairman.