So Much for the Big Apple-Samsung Summit

Should have held it on the Napa Valley Wine Train.
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Leave the Gun. Take the Cannoli: It’s Ring-Kissing Time for Ross at Yahoo’s All-Hands Meeting.

I’m gonna make you an interim CEO offer you can’t refuse.
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Here’s New Yahoo CEO’s First Note to Troops! (The Leaking-Internal-Memos-to-ATD Policy Remains in Effect As Usual)

Here is the first missive to Yahoo’s troops from new interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, which I obtained from 653 sources at the company. (Joke alert! Sort of!)
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Yahoo Officially Confirms ATD Report on CEO Changes and Proxy Settlement

All’s well that ends. At least for now — Happy Mother’s Day to all!
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Is He In or Is He Out? Crunchtime for Scott Thompson at Yahoo.

Waiting for a verdict in trial of ResuMess.
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Myspace in Privacy-Policy Settlement With FTC

Social-networking service Myspace settled allegations by the Federal Trade Commission that it misled millions of users about its sharing of personal information with advertisers, the FTC said.

They Shoot Yahoo CEOs, Don’t They? But Not Without a Really Smoking Gun and a Much Stronger Board.

While many across the blogosphere — including some very clever tweets — called for the head of Scott Thompson tout de suite, that’s just not going to happen. At least for now. And here’s why.
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Apple, Samsung Agree to Settlement Talks

But will they end in resolution?
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Talks Quicken Over E-Book Pricing

Talks to resolve U.S. and European price-fixing probes into e-books are heating up, with three international publishers inclined to settle the matter, according to people familiar with the matter.