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Yahoo Hires Amber Allman as New D.C. Director of Public Affairs

in News on November 18, 2009 at 9:18 pm PT

Earlier today, BoomTown reported that Yahoo was poised to name a few new top execs at its Silicon Valley HQ. But the company has also hired a new director of public affairs in the nation’s capital–Amber Allman of 463 Communications. With a spate of regulatory issues coming up around its pending search and online advertising deal with Microsoft, Yahoo will need all the help it can get.
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Is Google Playing Chicken With the Justice Department?

in News on October 31, 2008 at 1:12 am PT

Are Google and Yahoo thinking of walking away from their controversial search advertising deal, as reported in an amusingly hedged report in The Wall Street Journal last night? I would bet my Barry Manilow record collection, based on rumblings on Wednesday among those close to the case, that Google is a key whispery source here, sending a very public signal to the Justice Department that it would walk if pushed too far and leave regulators with egg on their faces for not letting the search giant help the struggling Yahoo.