Another Top Yahoo Is Out The Door
Yahoo CTO Ash Munshi has left the company, a spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. He was at Yahoo for less than a year, having been appointed shortly after Carol Bartz was fired as CEO. A...
View ArticleAlong With New Homepage, Yahoo Also Set to Launch a “Gmail-Like” Email Reboot...
According to sources close to the company, Yahoo is prepping to launch a major overhaul of Yahoo Mail — which sources said has a cleaner, “more Gmail-like” look. I am not clear exactly what thatmeans...
View ArticleFormer Yahoo Exec Blake Irving Named CEO of Domain Giant Go Daddy
Go Daddy, the world’s biggest Web hosting and domain company, has hired former Yahoo Chief Product Officer and Microsoft exec Blake Irving to be its new CEO. The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company said...
View ArticleGoogle Ads Coming Soon to Yahoo
Last year, there were talks about an alliance between Google and Yahoo. It seems they did work out something. Sources say Google is set to begin running some of its AdSense display ads on Yahoo...
View ArticleMarissa Meyer Wants All Yahoo! Employees to Work Together…Literally
Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer made yet another ballsy move to get the company back in shape by eliminating Work-From-Home(WFH) option for all Yahoo employees. The memo circulated to the employees by HR...
View ArticleYahoo Takes Out Some Trash This Spring
The furore over Yahoo’s decision to ban work from home is not yet over but CEO Marissa Meyer is already ruffling some feathers by killing off over half a dozen apps including the Yahoo! app for...
View Article17 Year Old Summly Founder Paid $30 Million by Yahoo
Yahoo has been aggressive in the mobile space and make yet another bold move by acquiring news reading app Summly. The final deal is not yet closed, but it is being valued at $30 Million. You think[...]
View ArticleTeen Millionaire Nick D’Aloisio To Create More Startups After Yahoo
Nick D’Aloisio, the 17-year-old whose mobile startup Summly has been bought by Yahoo for about $30 million, talks about developing applications and his plans for the future. He speaks with Mark Barton...
View ArticleYahoo Chairman Resigns
Yahoo said Chairman Fred Amoroso has resigned but will serve on the Web portal’s board until its June annual meeting. Mr. Amoroso, who was named chairman last May, will be succeeded in the interim by...
View ArticleYahoo in Talks to Acquire Tumblr for as High as $1 Billion
Yahoo is probably trying to be cool again and Marissa Mayer is trying to lead a game changing acquisition. According to multiple sources, Yahoo is in serious talks with Tumblr to acquire the social...
View ArticleYahoo Board Approves Tumblr Deal for $1.1 Billion in Cash
Last Friday, we shared a reported rumor that Yahoo is in talks to acquire Tumblr for as high as $1.1 billion. According to The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo’s board of directors approved a $1.1 billion...
View ArticleWhy Yahoo Bought Tumblr, and What it Needs to Do
Yahoo! geared up for a major announcement Monday said to be a $1.1 billion deal to take over popular blogging platform Tumblr, a move that could bring a younger, hipper audience to the struggling...
View ArticleMarissa Mayer: I’m Delighted to Announce That We’ve Reached an Agreement to...
Well, finally it’s official – Yahoo acquires Tumblr for $1.1 billion making it one of the biggest tech acquisitions this year. The Yahoo! official blog has also movedto yahoo.tumblr.com. This is what...
View ArticleYahoo Acquires Gaming Infrastructure Startup PlayerScale
Yahoo seems to be on an acquisition spree! Just three days after Yahoo revealed the acquisition of blogging platform developer Tumblr for $1.1 billion, it bought another company: gaming infrastructure...
View ArticleCurators are Visionaries, They Have an Intuition That is Valuable and That is...
With all the hype going around about Tumblr getting acquired by Yahoo for a billion dollars, I wanted to share a thought on the real value of Tumblr. Tumblr has a lot of authentic content:[...]
View ArticleTumblr Creative Director Jacob Bijani Quits After Yahoo Acquisition
Jacob Bijani was one of the early employees at Tumblr, in fact #5, when he joined the company back in 2008. After the recent Tumblr acquisition by Yahoo, he wrote about his decision to quit[...]
View ArticleYahoo! Hack comes to Hyderabad, focusing on high-impact apps and dynamic...
– 6th edition of Yahoo Hack India to be organized for the first time in cyber city ‘Hyderabad’ – 250 best developers in India to fight it out in the 24-hour hackathon Bangalore, July 4,[...]
View ArticleYahoo Hack India 2013
6th edition of Yahoo! Hack India was organized for the first time in cyber city ‘Hyderabad’ The energy at the 6th edition of Yahoo Hack in India was electrifying as we counted down to[...]
View ArticleTechnology Giants Sign Deal to Ban Advertising on Pirate Websites
Hitting the revenue streams of infringing sites has been a recurring theme in recent months. Companies like PayPal have refused to do business with certain kinds of file-sharing sites, while payment...
View ArticleYahoo! India R&D hosts ‘HACK U’ at IIT Bombay
Yahoo! India R&D recently hosted ‘Hack U’ for the students of the Computer Science Department at IIT Bombay. Hack U is Yahoo!’s exciting university program that brings the creative, out of the...
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