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Early Adopter: Think That Restaurant Looks Shady? Donteat.at Lets You Know for Sure

in News on February 25, 2011 at 10:01 am PT

It’s happened to everyone—the terrible fallout from eating at that unfamiliar restaurant with the spoons that were a little too greasy, or the chicken that was served a little too rare. New York University junior Max Stoller feels your pain, and built donteat.at to keep his fellow New Yorkers out of unclean restaurants and the gastric turmoil that inevitably follows.

Exclusive: Yahoo's David Ko to Head Mobile at Online Gaming Powerhouse Zynga

in News on October 4, 2010 at 9:11 am PT

David Ko, who just announced he was leaving Yahoo as head of its powerful U.S. Audience unit, is taking a job heading mobile efforts at hot social gaming start-up Zynga, according to sources. The move comes only a day after Jimmy Pitaro, who worked for Ko as head of Media at the Internet giant, landed at Disney as the new co-president of its Internet division. For Zynga, mobile is becoming a critical new platform for global growth, as consumers worldwide use a variety of increasingly functional mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers.
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Good Luck With That Alleged Antitrust Complaint Against Apple, Adobe…

in News on May 7, 2010 at 7:28 am PT

“The first question that needs to be answered is ‘Does Apple have monopoly power in this market?’” That’s what Harry First, the Charles L. Denison Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, told me when I asked him if Adobe’s rumored antitrust complaint against Apple had any legs. Today, we have the answer to First’s question: No.

Yahoo Mobile Head David Ko Takes Over Audience Job Too (But Mobile Product Development Moves Under Balogh)

in News on November 30, 2009 at 12:13 am PT

David Ko, head of Yahoo’s mobile division, has added the Internet giant’s vast media properties in the U.S. to his portfolio, according to several sources. With purview over programming and more for the main Yahoo media properties, such as News and Finance, he will now control a vast swath of its consumer-facing products. But, in a related move, product development for mobile has moved from under Ko to CTO and EVP of Products Ari Balogh.
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