HotJobs

JIBE Makes It Easier to Get Referred for the Job You Want

Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 16 at 5:00 am PT

When you see a job you want, it’s natural to wonder who among your friends and contacts might already work at that company. A start-up called JIBE is building a business around those connections.

BranchOut Social Jobs Site Grabs a Yahoo Exec

Liz Gannes in Social on March 28, 2011 at 11:05 am PT

BranchOut, the professional social network built on top of Facebook, has hired Chris Merritt from his post as Yahoo’s VP of global advertiser partnerships.

Yahoo Tops Earnings Expectations, While Revenue Remains Weak (And Outlook Even Worse)

Kara Swisher in News on October 19, 2010 at 1:17 pm PT

Yahoo turned in a much-needed solid quarter in its third-quarter earnings report, with slightly better-than-expected net income, although still weak revenue. Wall Street consensus was that Yahoo’s net income would rise to 15 cents a share from 13 cents a year ago and that revenue would be a flattish $1.13 billion. Instead, Yahoo’s net revenue was $1.12 billion–which is minus traffic acquisition costs–on earnings of 29 cents a share. But net earnings per diluted share for the third quarter of 2010 included a benefit of 13 cents per diluted share related to the gain on the sale of HotJobs.

Weekend Update 02.06.10–The Winter Ain’t Over Edition

Drake Martinet in News on February 6, 2010 at 12:30 pm PT

Torrential rain in the west and blizzard of death in the east can mean only one thing. Using a fat rodent to divine the weather is at at least as accurate as $100 million in geosynchronous weather satellites. So as AllThingsD battens down the hatches on both coasts, Weekend Update is here to be the perfect accompaniment to hot tea and power-outage candles. So charge up the laptop while you can, and read on for a full week’s tech trends straight from our intrepid team.

HotJobs Sold to Monster in Yahoo Garage Sale

John Paczkowski in News on February 3, 2010 at 1:43 pm PT

Apparently, Yahoo’s efforts to sell off some of its noncore properties are going quite a bit better than previously thought. Moments ago, the company said it will sell Yahoo HotJobs to Monster Worldwide, proprietor of rival online career site Monster.com. Price: $225 million in cash.

Yahoo Hires New M&A Head–But Whither Greg Mrva?

Kara Swisher in News on October 21, 2009 at 12:12 am PT

Yahoo has hired a new head of mergers and acquisitions–former General Electric M&A exec Andrew Siegel, who will now be VP of corporate development. Yahoo CFO Tim Morse dropped the news with no details about that title in an interview with The Wall Street Journal about the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s third-quarter earnings. One question apparently not answered was what exactly is the status of its current top M&A exec, Greg Mrva–who has had the title Siegel now has posted on his LinkedIn profile–as well as that of VP of mergers and acquisitions more recently.

Yahoo Adds Zimbra to the Garage Sale as It Tries to Shed What Isn't "You!"

Kara Swisher in News on September 21, 2009 at 4:16 am PT

According to numerous sources, Yahoo has been shopping around Zimbra, the open-source email company it bought in late 2007 for $350 million. Zimbra is only one of the many assets of Yahoo that are now on the block, including its personals business, its HotJobs online classified unit and more to come. The effort to unload Zimbra is yet another sign that the company is trying to slim down its diverse portfolio, even as it strives to redefine itself this week with a new, pricey marketing campaign that seeks to position Yahoo primarily as a consumer company.

Yahoo's Jumpcut Pushed Off Cliff (But You Can Send Your Videos to Yahoo's Flickr!)

Kara Swisher in News on April 16, 2009 at 12:01 am PT

You could see this one coming a mile out: After telling users they could not upload new videos late last year, Yahoo is finally shutting down Jumpcut. “This was a difficult decision to make, but it’s part of the ongoing prioritization efforts at Yahoo!,” said Jumpcut in a note to users today. That’s code for the stylings of new CEO Carol Bartz, who is hard at work axing many of Yahoo’s similarly lagging services. The sassy video-editing service was bought by Yahoo in 2006 amid high hopes of the Internet giant becoming a big player in the hot online video market. That honor, as it turned out, went to YouTube, which was more cats-on-skateboards-oriented than tools-oriented.

At South by Southwest, a Web 1.0 Blast From the Past

Peter Kafka in Media on March 13, 2009 at 12:24 pm PT

The annual nerdfest/Web 2.0 convention draws hordes of Twittering tyros–and at least one graybeard who survived the last boom-and-bust cycle just fine, thank you very much. Or more accurately: Thank Terry Semel’s Yahoo.