Code Advisors Takes a $25 Million Investment From J.P. Morgan

Big and little investment banks join hands to take on Silicon Valley better.
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Workday Is Looking for Bankers to Help It Go IPO in 2012

The wait begins for one of the most anticipated IPOs of 2012.
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Bring in the Suits: Yahoo Hiring Strategic Advisers to Plot Next Moves

Maybe someone can finally answer the perennial AllThingsD stumper: What is Yahoo?
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Meet Andreessen Horowitz’s Newest Partner: Mark Cranney

A VC partner whose job isn’t to find new companies to invest in, but to help out the ones already in the portfolio.

Yahoo Earnings Preview: Cheat Sheets

Yahoo will announce its first-quarter earnings after the markets close today and have a call with Wall Street analysts at 2 pm PT. BoomTown will be liveblogging the proceedings, of course. Until then, here are preview reports about Yahoo from a pair of sharp analysts: Imran Khan of J.P. Morgan and Mark Mahaney of Citigroup. Overall take: Recovery mode for the Internet giant, due to an upswing in display advertising online, which has been a good thing for the stock. It has risen smartly of late.

Microsoft Gets Brainy New Board Member: Maria Klawe (and Announces 13-Cent Dividend)

Maria Klawe, the president of Harvey Mudd College, has just been named as the 10th member of the Microsoft board. The company also announced a quarterly dividend of 13 cents per share, payable June 18, 2009, to shareholders of record on May 21, 2009. Klawe’s appointment is interesting. She is rather sharp–what a shock–according to her bio, which lists impressive credits as a computer scientist. More importantly, Klawe said she will try to get Microsoft to focus more on gender issues in the computing industry.
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WaMu: Epic Bail

Add Washington Mutual to the list of troubled financial institutions felled by the current economic crisis. The lender was seized by federal regulators on Thursday night and sold to JPMorgan Chase for $1.9 billion in the hopes of preventing further damage to the country’s hard-hit economy.