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Hello Goodbye: What Does Talent Exodus From Internet Companies Like Yahoo Actually Mean?

in News on March 24, 2010 at 5:13 am PT

On March 30, a core group of Yahoo’s Buzz Marketing team, which focuses on all kinds of nontraditional marketing efforts, is leaving the company to set up a new firm. But what does the departure actually mean for Yahoo? Does it represent a worrisome and seemingly unending hemorrhage of talent? Or is it simply an example of ever-shifting and very normal talent movements within a company? Or what?

Web 2.0 Conference This Week–Lance Armstrong, Al Gore, Jerry Yang, Mark Zuckerberg…and Lionel Richie?

in News on November 3, 2008 at 8:00 am PT

On Wednesday, the annual Web 2.0 Summit kicks off in San Francisco. The lineup is particularly good this year and it is also a perfect time to take the temperature of the Internet’s movers and shakers, given all the hubbub of late with the weak economy. Speakers will include bicycle champ Lance Armstrong, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, former VP Al Gore, Google.org head Larry Brilliant, Paul Otellini of Intel and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, among others. But, best of all for BoomTown, singer Lionel Richie will be performing at a MySpace Music party.