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Sarah Lacy Debuts New Tech Site, PandoDaily — $2M+ in Funding and Guess Who’s Working for Her? (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on January 16 at 9:00 am PT

Here’s the brave woman who will be the new boss of Michael Arrington, M.G. Siegler and Paul Carr. (You read that right.)

Yahoo Keeps Up Hiring–Rob Barrett Named as Head of News and Finance

Kara Swisher in Media on May 9, 2011 at 8:27 am PT

Yahoo is on a bit of a hiring spree, picking up longtime Internet exec Robertson Barrett, to run its critical and powerful News and Finance sites. Barrett has held top positions at Tribune Interactive, Time Inc., ABC News, Primedia’s Channel One Interactive and The Feedroom. Barrett worked most recently as chief strategy officer of Perfect Market, a Comcast-backed start-up.

Yahoo's Fourth Quarter "Encouraging," Says CEO; Street Says "Eh"

John Paczkowski in News on January 25, 2011 at 1:08 pm PT

Investors hoping Yahoo might benefit from the same surge in online display advertising spending that drove Google to its recent big quarter are in luck–except for the big-quarter part: Posting fourth-quarter earnings today after sacking one percent of its staff, the company reported net income of 24 cents per share on revenue of $1.21 billion.

Let a Zillion Users Blab: Yahoo Debuts "Contributor Network"

Kara Swisher in News on November 15, 2010 at 12:01 am PT

Yahoo is debuting a new offering for its hundreds of million of users, which takes the Demand Media model and notches up the volume by presumably allowing a thousand flowers to bloom. Or, more to the point, blab. The Internet giant is “inviting people to contribute to many of its most popular sites with the launch of the Yahoo! Contributor Network, a new platform for people to publish their creative content on Yahoo!.”

Ongoing Brain Drain Claims Yahoo Finance Head

Kara Swisher in News on September 8, 2010 at 8:12 pm PT

Another significant departure from Yahoo: Steve Schultz, who was GM of its important and powerful Yahoo Finance unit, has left the company to become COO of Pageonce, an online personal-finance “assistant.” Schultz is one of a string of leaders at the Silicon Valley Internet giant who have departed in recent months.

Dozen-Year Yahoo Tech Veteran Ash Patel to Take "Time Off"

Kara Swisher in News on November 3, 2009 at 1:59 pm PT

Longtime Yahoo tech leader Ash Patel is taking some time off until early 2010. Yahoo confirmed the break to BoomTown. In recent days, some inside the company had mistakenly thought the 44-year-old EVP for Product Architecture & Strategy was departing the company for good. Actually, it’s more of a sabbatical for Patel.

Yahoo Video: You've Come a Long Way, Baby

John Paczkowski in News on October 31, 2008 at 2:02 pm PT

The economic crisis has been as much a boon for Yahoo as a bane. Earlier this week, we noted that Yahoo’s share of the search market had increased slightly, thanks to investors obsessively checking Yahoo Finance and its Stock Message Boards. It seems that morbid interest in the stock market’s decline is driving up Yahoo video streams as well.

Yahoo Video: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

John Paczkowski in News on October 31, 2008 at 2:02 pm PT

The economic crisis has been as much a boon for Yahoo as a bane. Earlier this week, we noted that Yahoo’s share of the search market had increased slightly, thanks to investors obsessively checking Yahoo Finance and its Stock Message Boards. It seems that morbid interest in the stock market’s decline is driving up Yahoo video streams as well.