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Former CEO Thompson Might Be Gone, But Internal Investigation Into ResuMess Still a Hot Potato at Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News on May 22 at 9:03 am PT

The mystery of the botched bio lingers on.

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For Valley Engineers, Big Data and Networking Start-Ups Are Still Sexy

Mike Isaac in News on May 17 at 4:30 am PT

Consumer companies may be hot among investors, but big data and networking start-ups are hotter still to Valley engineering talent, according to a recent LinkedIn report. The study claims that analytics firms and networking start-ups like Cloudera and Arista Networks are garnering the most engineering mindshare. The study took into account the LinkedIn activity of more than 240,000 Bay Area engineers from January through March.

As Yahoo CEO Reaches Out to Top Staff, Board Meets to Weigh “Options” (I.E., Deciding Who Gets to Take the Borked Bio Blame)

Kara Swisher in News on May 6 at 8:27 pm PT

On tonight’s Silicon Valley version of “Game of Thrones,” King Scott Thompson tries to assuage, while the board potentates sharpen their knives.

Silver Lake Grabs Large Minority Stake of WME to Push Digital Initiatives

Kara Swisher in News on May 2 at 10:59 am PT

Hollywood meets Silicon Valley. Again.

Exclusive: The Billion-Dollar Inside Story of How Demand Media Almost Went Private Last Week (And Then Didn’t)

Kara Swisher in News on April 28 at 11:02 am PT

According to sources close to the situation, Demand Media was deep into discussions with a private equity firm to complete a deal that would have taken the online content company private for double its current value.

Exclusive: Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving Resigns

Kara Swisher in News on April 5 at 6:28 pm PT

Irving has left the purple building.

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Yahoo Prominent Brainiac Drain Continues: Goodbye to Broder, Mao

Kara Swisher in News on March 27 at 10:34 am PT

The departures from Yahoo’s research units — which is the once-vaunted computer science arm of the Silicon Valley Internet giant that is facing big cost cuts — continues. This time, said sources, it’s Andrei Broder, VP of computational advertising and chief scientist of the Advertising Product Group, as well as Jianchang (JC) Mao, who heads advertising sciences. It is not clear where either is going. But this research talent drain comes as no surprise after Yahoo Labs head Prabhakar Raghavan left for Google. He was followed by others, such as Raghu Ramakrishnan, who went to Microsoft.

Vaunted Yahoo Techie Departs for Microsoft (Surprised? Me Neither.)

Kara Swisher in News on March 19 at 8:29 pm PT

Raghu Ramakrishnan has left the purple building.

So It’s the Kodak Strategy for Yahoo — The Last Refuge of the Vaguely Patented

Kara Swisher in News on February 28 at 6:00 am PT

In poking Facebook, Yahoo might now learn what it is really like to be de-friended.

Talent Management Start-Up PeopleMatter Raises $14M, Led by Morgenthaler

Kara Swisher in News on February 26 at 7:00 pm PT

The Charleston, N.C.-based software company, which focuses on hourly workers, said the new investment will be used to for product innovation and customer acquisition strategies.