4 posts and columns on telenovela

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Univision Readies Telenovela Web Site

in News on February 22, 2010 at 9:18 am PT

U.S. Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications Inc. is creating a video Web site for the popular telenovela soap-opera genre, hoping to fill a void as Internet use grows among Hispanics. The new service, dubbed “Novela y Series,” or “Novelas and Series,” is slated to start in the spring.

Yahoo Gets New PR Head From NetApp–The Internal Memo (Natch!)

in News on June 2, 2009 at 5:45 pm PT

New Yahoo Marketing head Elisa Steele named a colleague from her former job, NetApp, as SVP of Global Communications at the Internet giant. Eric Brown was the VP of corporate relations at the data storage company, on whose board Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has also served. Before that, he was at Adaptec. And, according to Yahoo’s internal memo, Brown likes to eat ice cream in bed while reading a Kindle and surfing the Web. Scooch over and make some room for BoomTown, Eric!
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Yahoo Telenovela to Get the Vanity Fair Treatment

in News on April 2, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

Misguided managers, Luddite corporate raiders, a thuggish hostile takeover from a software giant, a revolving door of employees, a dash of Internet moolah and a tough-talking lady CEO to the rescue! Also some Googzilla action thrown in for good measure. Of course, it has all the elements of a good story for Vanity Fair magazine! Actually, Yahoo has all the elements of a good Mexican telenovela, but it’s only a magazine article that is apparently in the cards to chronicle the stumbles and bumbles of the Internet giant.
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Sorting Out Fact From Fiction at Yahoo: The Telenovela Edition

in News on November 5, 2008 at 2:47 pm PT

Okay, here is what is true at this moment about Yahoo, which is sure to get even more caught up in the maelstrom of rumor and innuendo about its fate after the collapse of its controversial search advertising deal with Google today. While Yahoo’s corporate gyrations are beginning to feel like there are more twists and turns than a Spanish telenovela, the actual situation is a lot less sexy and definitely more grim.