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Yahoo Offer to Buy Contact Startup Xobni Is at a Price of $30M to $40M

Kara Swisher in News June 17, 2013 at 5:39 pm PT

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Viral Video: In Which I Am Impressed by the Jazz Hands of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer

Kara Swisher in Media June 14, 2013 at 3:31 pm PT

3375 posts and columns on Yahoo

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Why Yahoo Could Become the Next Major TV Network

in Voices on June 10 at 1:01 pm PT

If Yahoo wants a TV-level audience to command TV-level ad budgets, it needs the kind of content that can command massive viewership.
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Why Tumblr Won’t Move Yahoo’s Needle

in News on May 24 at 1:24 pm PT

When Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer announced that the Internet giant would spend $1.1 billion to acquire blogging site Tumblr, she promised not to “screw it up.” Maybe the young chief should have instead emphasized what the six-year-old fledging startup can do for Yahoo.

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I’ll Tumblr For You … (Comic)

in Voices on May 21 at 3:31 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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“Hands-Off”: The Impossible Promise

in Voices on May 21 at 2:37 pm PT

Inside Yahoo, Tumblr will be caught in the tectonic grinding of conflicting interests.
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Nuclear Exit

Best way to shut down North Korea’s nuclear program: get Yahoo to acquire it.

– Andy Baio (@waxpancake) via Twitter

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A Year Later, What Google Drive Means for Startups

in Voices on May 6 at 9:30 am PT

Building on platforms is one of the greatest opportunities for growth.
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Yahoo Scraps Deal for French Video Site

in Media on April 30 at 4:30 pm PT

Online-video website Dailymotion was on track to be the first major acquisition for Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer, after her company had signed a provisional deal to buy control from owner France Télécom SA. Then Ms. Mayer’s No. 2 executive met with French Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg.

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Ten Years Later: Lessons From the Applied Semantics’ Google Acquisition

in Voices on April 22 at 8:00 am PT

I would like to share these lessons with others in the hope that they might find something useful.
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A Future for Yahoo

Rename the company to something like ‘Yelp.’

– No. 9 in a series of nine things that Andrew Goodman suggests for the future of Yahoo, No. 1 being “Acquire Yelp”

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Yahoo, Apple Discuss Deeper iPhone Partnership

in Mobile on April 9 at 4:05 pm PT

Yahoo Inc. and Apple Inc. are getting cozier.

Getting in the New EPG: Every Media Company Must Master the Science of Programming

Posted by Ben Elowitz, co-founder and CEO, Wetpaint in Voices, April 2, 2013 at 2:39 pm PT

What Does $30 Million Buy You?

Posted by Ben Rooney, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal in News, March 26, 2013 at 11:01 am PT

Yahoo in Talks to Buy Stake in Video Site Dailymotion

Posted by Sam Schechner and Amir Efrati, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News, March 19, 2013 at 2:55 pm PT

How and Why We Track: Confessions of an Ad “Tracking” Company

Posted by Paul Pellman, CEO, Adometry, Inc. in Voices, March 14, 2013 at 2:43 pm PT

A New Work-At-Home Policy (Comic)

Posted by Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices, March 8, 2013 at 2:50 pm PT

Facebook Is the Google of Mobile

Posted by Manish Chandra, Founder and CEO, Poshmark in Voices, March 5, 2013 at 2:07 pm PT

Why We Must Think Bigger

Posted by Charles Moldow, General Partner, Foundation Capital in Voices, February 22, 2013 at 3:01 pm PT

QOTD: A Paint Job Instead of an Overhaul From Yahoo

Yahoo Leans on Facebook in Revamp of Home Page

Posted by Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News, February 20, 2013 at 4:57 am PT

Ex-Yahoo CFO Tim Morse Joins Fast-Growing Video-Ad Company

Posted by Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News, January 7, 2013 at 9:37 am PT

Life and Death Online: Who Controls a Digital Legacy?

Posted by Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices, January 5, 2013 at 2:52 pm PT

Yahoo to Close South Korean Operations

Posted by Jung-Ah Lee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News, October 19, 2012 at 4:30 am PT

Old Yahoo to New Yahoo: Good Luck!

How Marissa Mayer Could Save Yahoo! (Comic)

Posted by Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices, July 18, 2012 at 4:30 pm PT

Yahoo Still Tilting at Windmills?

Posted by Mike Walrath, Founder, Right Media in Voices, July 17, 2012 at 10:53 am PT