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Bahat to Head $75 Million Bloomberg Beta Tech Fund
The newly minted VC is charged with investing in and also creating early-stage startups for the media and financial news giant.
Zynga’s Pincus: “None of Us Ever Expected to Face a Day Like Today”
It’s not easy being mobile.
Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees — 18 Percent of Staff — and Shutter New York and LA Offices in Refocus on Mobile
Right-sizing the gaming giant for the mobile market.
Another VC Is Born: Well-Known Internet Exec Ben Ling Joins Khosla Ventures
The former Google, Facebook and Badoo exec is the second high-profile Silicon Valley operating exec the VC firm has hired of late.
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Yahoo Scoops Up Another Small Startup: Gaming Platform PlayerScale
Yahoo said it had bought PlayerScale, a small gaming infrastructure startup for cross-platform gaming. Yahoo has been on a bit of a tear in buying up small companies for low prices, to strengthen its talent and expertise in a wide variety of arenas, including mobile, productivity and gaming. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but PlayerScale said on its blog that it would “continue to support our existing product,” which is Player.IO.Former Yahoo Shashi Seth to Join Tribune as President of New Digital Ventures Unit
A new investment arm of the media giant gets a new exec to find new ideas.
Yahoo Tumblrs for Cool: Board Approves $1.1 Billion Deal as Expected
Done (just like we said).
Will Yahoo Try to Get Its “Cool Again” by Doing a Deal for Tumblr?
Could an investment in or purchase of the hipster blogging service take years off the Silicon Valley Internet giant?
Japan’s Rakuten Ups Its Stake in the Rebranded Grommet
More money for the “Citizen Commerce” platform.
Five Startups for $16 Million: Yahoo’s Mayer Is Buying Up Most Mobile App Companies on the Cheap
Warm entrepreneurial bodies: Priceless!
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