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New Yahoo Chief of Staff Comes In, While Previous One Goes to Facebook

in News on April 15 at 1:45 am PT

New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has selected Marta Nichols, who was the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s VP of investor relations, as his new chief of staff. Interestingly, Joel Jones, the chief of staff under Thompson’s predecessor, has moved to Facebook. After CEO Carol Bartz was ousted in the fall, Jones moved to a job as VP of Americas Ad Marketplaces at Yahoo. He’ll be part of the business operations team focused on the ads business at the social networking giant.

Executive Moves Continue at HP as Investor Relations VP Leaves

in News on September 9, 2011 at 3:15 pm PT

In another executive shift at HP, Steve Fieler, VP of investor relations, will be leaving in November.
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Exclusive: Yahoo Loses Another Top Exec–Mike Gupta–to Zynga

in News on May 26, 2011 at 5:16 pm PT

Zynga has nabbed another top exec from Yahoo–this time, Mike Gupta, one of its key strategy and corporate finance execs, sources say. He will have a similar role at Zynga, in charge of areas such as investor relations.
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Slip ‘N Slide Time: All the Presentations From Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting

in News on July 30, 2010 at 8:47 am PT

Microsoft had its annual Financial Analyst Meeting at its Redmond, Wash. campus yesterday, where BoomTown liveblogged the morning and afternoon sessions with the software giant’s top execs. And, because it is Microsoft, there were lots and lots of slides to look at, which are all after the jump.

Liveblogging Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting (Morning Session): It's a Beautiful Day?

in News on July 29, 2010 at 8:24 am PT

BoomTown took the corporate All Things Digital jet–aka Virgin America, seat 10A–up to Redmond, Wash., today to attend Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting, which also includes a passel of media drones like me. I liveblogged the event all day, which was essentially a cavalcade of top execs from the software giant taking the stage and showing off their wares. Before it started, U2′s “Beautiful Day” was playing over the sound system, which it was not up here in the Pacific Northwest this morning–it was kind of cold and gloomy, a la “Twilight”–but hopefully sparkly for Microsoft execs.

How to Become Rich and Famous in Three Months, the Live Nation Way

in Media on July 19, 2010 at 8:35 am PT

Sure, it’s easy to become Internet-famous these days. But how about real fame–the kind that lets you fill an arena with ticket-buying fans? Also easy, it turns out!

Dude, You Posted Your Earnings Three Minutes Early

in News on August 27, 2009 at 2:58 pm PT

Dell’s profit fell 23 percent in its second quarter. Its sales fell 22 percent. But the company still beat Wall Street expectations, and that’s what counts these days. Dell shares spiked nearly seven percent when the news was released, oddly, three minutes before the close of trading Thursday.
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Liveblogging the Microsoft Earnings Call: Glum Chris at the Recessiondome

in News on April 23, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

Well, despite the news being as bad at Microsoft as it was at Yahoo earlier this week, the conference call after the software giant released its third-quarter earnings was 100 percent less naughty and 200 percent more glum. In other words, while there were no F-bombs dropped, there were lots of E-bombs–as in econalypse. Here’s BoomTown’s liveblogging of the call–featuring the software giant’s semi-apocalyptic CFO, Chris Liddell.
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