And If You Hang Around a Barbershop Long Enough …

… you sit by a cesspool long enough, you are bound to get shit on you.

– From a post on Digiday, entitled “Confessions of a DSP Salesperson”

Samsung Rides Android Past Nokia to Take Sales Lead

A two percent decline in mobile phone shipments during the first quarter of 2012 may have hurt some handset vendors, but it did little to slow Samsung.
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Exclusive: Yahoo’s Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb Nears Completion

The final shoe — shoe store, really — drops.
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Yahoo Beats Q1 Expectations (as Expected) — Now, Will New CEO Outline More Strategery on Investor Call?

An upside non-surprise as we await pearls of wisdom from new CEO Scott Thompson.
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News Byte

Zillow to Open Southern California Sales Office

Zillow, which aggregates real estate information online, said it is opening a new sales office in Irvine, Calif., later this summer, with plans to hire up to 100. The Seattle company said the employees will be focused on selling subscriptions to local agents. The office will also have 20 employees from Diverse Solutions, a company Zillow acquired in November.

Nokia’s Lumia 900 Is Out of Stock at AT&T’s Online Store, but Why?

Nokia’s new Lumia 900 is temporarily out of stock at AT&T’s online store. Is it because of demand or inventory issues related to the software glitch that troubled the device’s launch?
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IBM Adds Canada’s Varicent to Its Analytics Lineup

Big Blue has kicked its deal-making up a few notches this year.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook to Appear as Opening Speaker at the D10 Conference

Welcome for the first time to the red-hot seat of D: All Things Digital, Mr. Cook!
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It’s Official: Yahoo Reorgs Itself Just Like We Said (Memo Time!)

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson just sent this note to Yahoo employees, about a new leadership organization for the company.
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