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LinkedIn Nabs Dow Jones Exec in Asia

LinkedIn has hired Olivier Legrand to run its advertising business in the Asia Pacific region, where the business networking site has more than 20 million members. Legrand has most recently been running digital initiatives in Asia for News Corp.’s Dow Jones, including The Wall Street Journal.

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As Expected, Yahoo Marketing Head Departs Company

Yahoo marketing head Elisa Steele, who was recently involved in an internal overhaul that shifted the major marketing functions back to the regions of the Silicon Valley Internet giant from its global centralized one — is leaving the company on Friday. At the time of the reorg, Steele had indicated that she was likely leaving Yahoo and sources said she had no plans as yet to move to another position.

Yahoo’s Jerry Yang and Rose Tsou on to Sell or Not to Sell, Asia and More: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

The co-founder of Yahoo will try to answer all your questions now.
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Exclusive: Like Marketing, Yahoo’s Customer Advocacy Org Gets Sliced and Diced This Week

Change is certainly afoot inside Yahoo.
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Exclusive: Yahoo Overhauls Marketing Unit — The Internal Memo

Yahoo is drastically rejiggering its marketing division, according to an internal memo from its Chief Marketing Officer Elisa Steele, in a move that seems to leave her future role unclear.
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Even More AsiaD Speakers: Yahoo’s Yang, HTC’s Wang, Samsung’s Hong and More!

You want more AsiaD speakers, we got more. And there are more to come, too!
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More AsiaD Speakers: Sony, Google+, Microsoft, Hollywood, Huawei and Hot SV Start-Ups!

Here’s the latest list of speakers for the upcoming AsiaD conference, which will take place October 19 to 21 in Hong Kong.
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Not-So-Chart-tastic Picture of Yahoo’s Q2 Display Disaster

Paging Ross Levinsohn — leader of Yahoo’s Americas region and its ad efforts — stat!
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Who’s to Blame for Yahoo’s Q2 Revenue Rout? The Line Forms Around Back…

What happened to Yahoo revenue? Display sales in the U.S. gets the blame this quarter. While coming up with a new thing to blame for Q3, Yahoo execs try to explain it all for you.
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And So the AsiaD Speakers Begin: Google, Alibaba, Twitter, Asus, Nvidia and More to Come!

D: All Things Digital is going to Asia and here’s some of the people we’ll be grilling onstage at the event, which will be held in Hong Kong from October 19 to 21.
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