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Kara Visits the VentureBeat Party!
Last night, dressed in my kindergarten soccer-coach best (sneaks, sweats and athletic socks–glam!), I ventured over to the Tenderloin district of San Francisco to attend VentureBeat‘s party in honor...
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Yahoo Loses Another Major Executive: Usama Fayyad Out
Despite the noise around the Yahoo/Google (GOOG) deal and the end of the Microsoft (MSFT) talks, attrition among Yahoo’s (YHOO) top executive ranks continues. Another executive departure will be...
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Boom: Apple Worth More Than Google
As Steve Jobs would say: “BOOM.” Apple (AAPL) has eclipsed Google (GOOG) in market value. Apple’s current market cap: $159.37 billion. Google’s: $157.56 billion. Not that we didn’t see this coming....
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Ben Ling Lands (Back) at Google–This Time, at YouTube
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Ben Ling–the high-profile Facebook platform exec who came from Google less than a year ago and then up and left the social-networking site earlier...
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The Curious Case of Facebook's Benjamin Ling and Sheryl Sandberg
Here’s one certainty in the hubbub that has resulted in the wake of the departure of high-profile exec Ben Ling from Facebook last week: COO Sheryl Sandberg is definitely not responsible for the...
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Getting Fit With Jerry Yang!
In the Grand List of Asinine Corporate Layoff Euphemisms, “getting fit” has to be one of the greatest. More so because it’s the one chosen by Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang in his latest all-hands message to...
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How Low Will Online Ads Go? Lower, Says J.P. Morgan. Very, Very Low, Says...
A year ago, the conventional wisdom said that the online advertising market would still grow in an economic slump because online ads were cheaper and more effective. And they are. But if the slump is...
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Gawker Media's Nick Denton: Anyone Want to Buy a Blog?
Yes, this is the third post I’ve written today about Gawker Media’s Nick Denton, who seems to prefer to get all of his news out at the same time. But briefly: Denton has put Consumerist, his, um,...
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Weekend Update 11/14/08
Safe to say that the mood of last week–with its anticipation of change–is a distant memory. A different kind of anticipation permeated the tech and online media industries, one more reminiscent of...
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Yahoo Search Suffers Another Blow, as Key Engineer Departs for Microsoft
Yahoo–which has stuck to its guns by staying in the search business, even though many think it is a losing game and should be sold off to Microsoft–has lost a key engineer in that arena to, uh-oh,...
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It's Official: Yahoo Search Exec Suchter to Microsoft
Yesterday, based on sources, BoomTown reported, that Yahoo search exec Sean Suchter was headed to Microsoft. Now it’s official. Here’s a Microsoft (MSFT) statement on the hiring of Suchter (pictured...
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Mark Zuckerberg: Bad Santa
Facebook’s virtual gift market may turn out to be the best holiday shopping option for employees hoping to cash out some of their shares. On Thursday, the company postponed a program that would have...
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Another Sad Day for Yahoo: Layoffs Begin, While Employees Vent
While layoffs have become all too common across tech and this country, today’s at Yahoo feel a little worse, coming after 18 unceasing months of painful changes and stumbles at the troubled Internet...
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Lloyd Braun's Not Going to Take It Anymore: "I Am Not an Umbrella Thief" (and...
There it was again–like the gnarly ghost of Christmas past–in the Los Angeles Times this week. But this time Lloyd Braun wasn’t going to take it anymore. The object of his ire was dropped right in the...
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The Three Caballeros?–Bostock, Ballmer and…Bewkes?
It wasn’t just Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer meeting in New York last week. According to several sources close to the situation, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes rounded out...
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Meet Ms. Techmeme: Megan McCarthy Explains All
Favorite blogger pastime: Carping about Techmeme, the aggregation site that calls itself the technology world’s newspaper of record. Used to be that most of their fulminations generally went...
View ArticleMore Layoffs for Google: 200 Axed From Sales
Google is laying off 200 people from its sales and marketing group, the company announced today in a blog post, confirming an earlier Gawker/Valleywag report. Google (GOOG) has some 20,000 employees,...
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Who Shot Valleywag? Gossip Bloggers Thomas (Outgoing) and Tate (Incoming) Speak!
Was it Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in Fraiche Yogurt with a Macbook Air? Or Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk on the streets of San Francisco with a Model S? Or, most likely of all, Marissa Mayer of Google...
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Weekend Update 5.03.09–Special Musical Chairs Edition
If there was an over-arching theme for this week at All Things D, it would have to be musical chairs. Brand new MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta started things off Monday with his first day on the job. He...
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Time Inc. Pines for a Kindle Killer–If Someone Else Builds It
Is Time Inc. building a Kindle Killer? Nope. My pal Owen Thomas, late of Valleywag, has published a piece for NBC’s Bay Area local site that suggests that Time Inc. wants to get into the hardware...
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