Exclusive: Japan’s Rakuten Wins the Heart of Pinterest in $100M Funding Race With $1.5B Valuation

The largest e-commerce site in Japan is about to get pinned by Ben Silbermann in massive funding round.
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Not So Scott Free? Yahoo’s Other Big Shareholder — Cap Re — Leaning Toward Supporting Loeb Over Thompson ResuMess.

Is the tenure of Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson — who is now big with the excuses — in trouble if other shareholders start to bolt?
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In 2009 Interview, Yahoo CEO Does Not Deny He Has a CS Degree, and Calls Himself an “Engineer” (Audio)

Mistakes pile atop of mistakes for Scott Thompson in computer science degree controversy.
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Viral Video: “The Newsroom” Is Reborn

Here’s a new trailer for HBO’s upcoming series “The Newsroom,” by famed Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.
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Viral Video: The More You FerrigKnow

Whatever former “Hulk” television show star Lou Ferrigno does, entertainingly speaking, I am for.
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You Can Handle the Truth: Aaron Sorkin to Appear Onstage at D10

You know who’s cool? The screenwriter of “The Social Network.”
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Viral Video: “Dumt & Farligt” (Don’t Ask, Just Watch)

Egg, meet baseball bat. In slo-mo.
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L.A. Stories: Scarfing Up Big Media at Gobbler (Video)

A hopped-up version of Dropbox’s media-in-the-cloud efforts for cool music folks.
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It’s Official: Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 Employees — 14 Percent of Workforce

CEO Scott Thompson promises that Yahoo, after staff cuts of 14 percent of the entire workforce, will be “smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require.”
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