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AOL’s Patch Gets New CEO, as Just Under Three Percent of Staff Is Laid Off in Consolidation (Memo)

Kara Swisher in Media on May 17 at 10:46 am PT

The hyperlocal content efforts gets trimmed in profit push and a new leader too.

With New Twitter Partnership, Yahoo Folds Tweets Into Its News Stream

Mike Isaac in Social on May 16 at 10:16 am PT

Yahoo brings real-time Twitter news to the Yahoo News feed.

Google Chrome: 750 Million Active Users, Synchronized Web and Mobile Browsing

Lauren Goode in Product News on May 15 at 10:20 am PT

Not surprisingly, users of the Google Chrome Web browser are increasingly coming from mobile devices.

Five Startups for $16 Million: Yahoo’s Mayer Is Buying Up Most Mobile App Companies on the Cheap

Kara Swisher in Mobile on May 13 at 6:16 am PT

Warm entrepreneurial bodies: Priceless!

Bill Gates on Steve Jobs on “60 Minutes”

Kara Swisher in Media on May 13 at 12:57 am PT

Gates: “We grew up together.”

Despite Lowered Guidance, Street Still Bullish on LinkedIn

Mike Isaac in Social on May 3 at 11:11 am PT

Shares tanked after earnings, but LinkedIn is still the tech-stock darling of Wall Street.

Yahoo Quickly Plugs Summly’s Tech Into Its iOS App

John Paczkowski in News on April 22 at 10:39 am PT

That was fast.

Circa’s Matt Galligan on Building a Different Kind of News Reader (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on April 9 at 12:01 pm PT

Mobile news apps are hot. Summly just sold for a ridonkulous amount of money, for example. So what’s up with the “atomic bits” list-makers of the San Francisco?