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Lerer Ventures Considers New $50 Million Fund With Hippeau Addition
One of the more interesting pieces of news that got pushed deep down in stories in the noisy swirl around AOL’s $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post was the move of its CEO Eric Hippeau...
View ArticleApple Gets a Grammy (Sort Of)
A tiny bit of Grammy glow for Apple: Last night marked the first time something recorded exclusively for its iTunes store won an award. Train’s version of “Hey, Soul Sister,” which won the “Best...
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Viral Video: The JaneDear Girls Hook Up With the Lip-Synch Phenom on YouTube
BoomTown is officially voting for the JaneDear Girls, after seeing the hot country duo’s effective use of Keenan Cahill, a.k.a. the weird little lip-synch dude on YouTube. While the pair–Susie Brown...
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Video: GroupMe Dudes Talk Group Messaging Phenom (and Drink Beer at the Same...
If you had to pick the hotsy-totsy start-up to win the media darling of South by Southwest award for 2011–following in the precious footsteps of Foursquare and Twitter from years past–it would...
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Asana Hires "COO-Type"–Van Zant First Biz Side Hire for Workplace...
As it gets ramped up for a wider launch, Asana, the high-profile workplace collaboration start-up founded by top former Facebook execs, has hired former SolarWinds product strategy exec Kenny Van Zant...
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Exclusive: Myspace in Advanced Deal Talks With Investor Group, Including...
And then there was one? According to sources close to the situation, News Corp. is down to one possible investing group in its quest to make lemonade out of the lemon that its Myspace social...
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Exclusive: Myspace Sale Nearing End Today With Low $30M Price and Buyer You...
It was just supposed to be a three-hour tour, um, quick sale process! But, like a storm-tossed ship looking for any safe harbor, the Myspace sale is still chugging along, with a deal that continues to...
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When Attrition Attacks: Yahoo's Latin America Head Departs
According to sources close to the situation, Guilherme Ribenboim, VP and managing director of Latin America and U.S. Hispanic markets, has left Yahoo for another job at a start-up. The 12-year Yahoo...
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As Skype Skips Through Approvals -- What's the Deal With the Deal?
As expected, the European Commission approved Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype late last week. Next, the deal for the popular Internet communications company — which had previously been...
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The Three Ventureers: Andreessen Horowitz Joining Conway and Milner in Y...
Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz said today that it was joining well-known investors Ron Conway and DST Global’s Yuri Milner in the Y Combinator Start Fund, which gives $150,000 to each...
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Asana Launches to Public -- Finally Moving Out of Private Beta
Asana, the high-profile group collaboration start-up founded by former Facebook execs, is moving out of private beta after a year, and will launch to the general public. Currently in use by thousands...
View ArticleSingapore Press Holdings Sues Yahoo
Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. is suing Yahoo Inc.’s Southeast Asian unit for alleged copyright violations, saying that the Internet firm reproduced news content from its newspapers without permission,...
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Yahoo Stock Gets Gaslit by Bidders Dangling Phantom $20-a-Share Bid
What an amazing coincidence. On the very day Yahoo’s board is considering actual bids from two private equity firms interested in deals to buy close to 20 percent of the company for between $16.50 and...
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Real Bonding With Family Around the TV Via Skype
As you read these words, millions of people are conducting video chats using the popular Skype service, now owned by Microsoft. Most of these calls are low-resolution encounters between two...
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Yahoo-Geddon: Leaders to Debate Layoffs, Asset Sales, Search Deals and More...
What is Yahoo? While that has been the perennially unanswered question at the Silicon Valley Internet giant for many years, according to dozens of sources inside and outside the company, Yahoo’s...
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Airbnb Hires CFO and HR Head in Effort to Grow Senior Team
In a critical hire to solidify its top corporate ranks, Airbnb has hired Intuit finance exec Andrew Swain as CFO. At Intuit, he was VP of finance for the financial software company’s $1.5 billion...
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"Big, Big Bucks": Yahoo Set to Release What It Paid to Hire Marissa Mayer
Later today, Yahoo will release what is likely to be a very juicy regulatory filing about what it paid to get former Google exec Marissa Mayer to become CEO. While I could not obtain the exact numbers...
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Mayer to Get Close to $60 Million (And Maybe More) in Overall Compensation...
Yahoo revealed in a regulatory filing that it could be paying its new CEO Marissa Mayer a total of close to $60 million to turn the company around. The mega-sum includes salary, equity grants, stock...
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Tech Scores on Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women List: Gates, Sandberg, Mayer...
Women in tech had a good showing on Forbes magazine’s 2012 “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” list, which came out this past week. Like the higher-profile tally from Fortune, it features the female...
View ArticleShould Twitter Ban Hamas?
Should Twitter allow named terrorist groups to continue to tweet? Not according to a group of Republican House members, who have asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to force the San...
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Elissa Murphy, One of Yahoo's High-Profile Tech Execs, Heads to Go Daddy as...
One of Yahoo’s top women execs, Elissa Murphy, who is VP of engineering for cloud services, is departing the Silicon Valley Internet giant to become CTO and head of platform efforts at Go Daddy, said...
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Yahoo's Bid for Hulu in $600M to $800M Range -- Even as It Preps Other Big...
According to numerous sources close to the situation, Yahoo has bid from $600 million to $800 million for the premium video site Hulu. The reason for the wide range is due to the fact that the Silicon...
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Exclusive: Yahoo Loses Its Media Head, as Mickie Rosen Ankles From Company
According to sources, Yahoo’s media head Mickie Rosen is leaving the Silicon Valley Internet giant. Rosen, who reported to COO Henrique De Castro, is one of the highest-ranking execs to depart the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Names Exec to Top Skype Post
Microsoft has named Gurdeep Singh Pall to replace the departing Mark Gillett as corporate VP for Skype, as well as its Lync communications product. Gillett, who took a job as head of value creation at...
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Clinging to Outlook, Only 25 Percent of Yahoo Employees Willing to Eat Mail...
As most know, I love a good internal memo from inside Yahoo and here’s a doozy related to a rather controversial topic of late: How badly the new version of Yahoo Mail has been received by consumers....
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