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Connected Life Head Marco Boerries to Leave Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News on February 25, 2009 at 2:27 am PT

Yahoo’s top mobile exec, Marco Boerries, is departing Yahoo, according to an internal email obtained by BoomTown that he sent to some staffers on Sunday. I have also since confirmed Boerries’s departure with company insiders familiar with the situation. In a post on Monday on a restructuring at Yahoo that new CEO Carol Bartz is likely to unveil to the company this week–sources tell me it is now set to be announced internally tomorrow–I noted that Boerries was one of the more likely high-level execs to go. “With a very heavy heart I have to tell you, that I will be leaving Yahoo!,” Boerries wrote, attributing his departure in an email titled “Personal Update,” to issues related to his family.

Liveblogging From Yahoo’s "Open House": Open Ads, Open Mobile, Open Open!

Kara Swisher in News on September 11, 2008 at 11:11 am PT

BoomTown is thinking of starting a drinking game wherein the group gathered at Yahoo’s “Open House” media event this morning, takes a shot of Cuervo every time an exec says “open.” Except, everyone would be drunker than drunk if that was the case by now, as Yahoo lays out its strategies to open its platform and all its products to the whole wide world. That would be developers, publishers, advertisers, content creators and my mother. OK, not her, since she cannot turn on a computer. But definitely everyone else.