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Exclusive: LinkedIn Has Bought Contact Management Start-Up Connected

in Social on October 5, 2011 at 1:16 pm PT

LinkedIn has acquired Connected, a small contact management start-up that unifies and dynamically updates users’ connections on email, social networks, calendars and phones.
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Former Yahoo Tech Star Eric Boyd to Microsoft (via Mochi Media)

in News on September 8, 2009 at 12:44 pm PT

Eric Boyd (pictured here), a high-profile techie from Yahoo who left the company for a start-up last year, is now headed to Microsoft to work for its digital group, now run by another ex-Yahoo, Qi Lu. UPDATE: Microsoft confirmed the hiring, although declined to provide further details. Boyd–who is well-known for his card-counting team exploits while at MIT (which was later made into a movie)–had been VP of platform engineering at Yahoo and worked on a variety of projects there. With the addition of Boyd, sources said, Microsoft has acquired a huge swath of the top tech talent of Yahoo, many of whom came to the software giant because of Lu and to also escape the turmoil at Yahoo.
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A New Look for GigaOm and a New GigaOm Show!

in News on November 26, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Om Malik’s popular tech site, GigaOm, unveiled a handsome new look. Here’s a partial image of the site–click on the image to make it larger. We have also been lax in posting new episodes of the GigaOm Show on Revision3, which Malik co-hosts with Joyce Kim. Here is the latest one with Jim Greer of [...]