With New Twitter Partnership, Yahoo Folds Tweets Into Its News Stream

Yahoo brings real-time Twitter news to the Yahoo News feed.
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Path Product Management Director Dylan Casey Departs for Yahoo

The former Path product lead jumps ship to work with former Google colleague Marissa Mayer.
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Yahoo Snaps Up Mobile Gaming Company Loki Studios

Yahoo has acquired mobile gaming startup Loki Studios, the company announced on Friday. The staff will join Yahoo’s mobile team to work on unspecified projects — though Loki’s specialty seemed to be in location-based mobile products. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg on the Importance of Working Remotely

Strong words from the man behind WordPress on Marissa Mayer’s recent work-from-home mandate.
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With New Alike Mobile App Acquisition, Yahoo Pushes Into Local Discovery

Yahoo’s next acquisition under Marissa Mayer is a mobile one, of course.
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Go Daddy Acquires Mobile Site-Building Startup M.Dot

Web hosting and domain giant Go Daddy announced Monday that it has acquired M.Dot, a startup whose self-serve app allows users to build their own mobile websites directly from the application. This is Go Daddy’s first acquisition under former Yahoo chief product officer Blake Irving, who left Yahoo to become Go Daddy CEO in December. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

New Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro Hints at the Future of the Web Portal (Pro Tip: Get Personal!)

A bit of insight from Yahoo’s new ops man, in a very general way.
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Twitter’s Latest Design Hire: Picplum Co-Founder Paul Stamatiou

Twitter announced the latest addition to its design team on Monday: Paul Stamatiou, co-founder of the photo-sharing service PicPlum. As an intern for Yahoo in 2006, Stamatiou worked on developing the company’s “Yodel Anecdotal” corporate blog. He worked on Picplum during Y Combinator’s Summer of 2011 class, but has decided to continue working as only an adviser to the company, leaving active development on Picplum in the hands of co-founder Akshay Dodeja. Stamatiou joins Twitter as an experience designer on the company’s growth team.

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Photo-Editing Software Firm Aviary Names New CEO

Aviary — the outfit that provides photo-editing software development kits to companies like Twitter, Yahoo and other, smaller, developers — named Tobias Peggs as its new CEO on Monday. Peggs was recently a product manager at Walmart, and before that, was the CEO of OneRiot. He will take over the position from Aviary co-founder Avi Muchnick, who will assume the role of chief product officer.

As Facebook and Twitter Feud Over Photos, Yahoo Plays Well With Others

Yahoo’s new Flickr app works well across all services — a crucial step in moving back toward mainstream consumer relevance.
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Meet Mine — Your Life, in E-Shopping

Confirmed: Facebook Not in Search Talks With Yahoo

Mapping Silicon Valley’s Own Private “iWay”

Facebook Shares Drop as User Base Reportedly Declines

Will Thompson’s Ouster Mean a Yahoo-Facebook Patent Settlement, Too?