Big Media Loves Promoted Trends, Twitter’s Big-Dollar Digital Billboards

$5.2 million in a month, at $200,000 a day.
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Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer Leans In About How She Decided to Become CEO While Pregnant

Wrote the exec: “Could I really take the helm of Yahoo when I was 28 weeks pregnant?” She could and did.
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Outbox: Yahoo Mail Head Sharma Leaves Company

Signed, sealed, delivered, he’s gone.
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Loose Lips: Yahoo M&A Head Told Employees Company Looking at Two “Significant” and a Half-Dozen Small Buys

In most cases, they sink ships. Here, perhaps not.
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CFO Goldman Says Mayer Regime Has Been Improving “Quality of Life” at Yahoo

No mention of work-at-home controversy, natch.
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Amazon Website Goes Down (Update: For 49 Minutes)

A rare occurrence to be sure, but this afternoon Amazon’s homepage went down for many users.
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Analysts Cautiously Optimistic as eBay Gets Ready to Close the Books on 2012

EBay is expecting the holidays to have treated it well, but analysts are a little more cautious.
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Mayer’s 10X Challenge: Yahoo’s Homepage, Mail and Search Traffic Show Significant Year-Over-Year Declines

The reality of traffic falloffs on key properties is a vexing issue.
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Yahoo’s New “Homerun” Homepage Is Rolling Out More Widely Across Several Browsers

Silicon Valley Internet giant hoping for more than a base hit.
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For Yahoo (And Me, Too), Time Is Brain