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Doug Cutting Leaving Yahoo
Doug Cutting, creator of the Hadoop technology that powered Yahoo’s search index, is leaving the company at the end of August for a...
Can Yahoo Really Compete In Search By “Owning The Interface”?
During the Yahoo-Microsoft conference call with CEOs Bartz and Ballmer and subsequent discussion with Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi and...
Yahoo Improves EU Mapping, Does It Still See Maps As Strategic?
These days it’s hard to remember that at one time Yahoo was the pioneer in dynamic mapping. It introduced enhanced local search features...
Yahoo Hires Morse As CFO
Yahoo has announced the hiring of Tim Morse as Chief Financial Officer. He’ll report directly to CEO Carol Bartz. Morse most recently was...
Bartz Continues Torpedoing Yahoo Search
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been talking a lot over the past two weeks about Yahoo and how it competes against Google and Microsoft. Each time she...
Yahoo Hires Software Exec For Top Communications Job
Yahoo has reportedly hired Eric Brown as head of communications for the company according to the Wall Street Journal. Brown is now VP of...
Bartz Talks About MSFT Deal, Google & More At D7 Conference
If Microsoft brings “boatloads of money and the right technology,” Yahoo would be willing to strike a long-rumored search deal. So...
Who’s Coming & Going In The Search Industry?
Over the weekend, there seemed to be a lot of activity on people coming and going at search companies. I figured I sum up some of those moves in...
MicroHoo Lite And Other Creative Speculation About Yahoo’s Immediate Future
Yahoo Q1 earnings are coming up next week. There were also some recent, not-so-secret conversations between new CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft...
Long Time Yahoo Search Scientist Jan Pedersen Joins Microsoft
The Yahoo-to-Microsoft defections continue with news today from paidContent.org that Jan Pedersen is the new chief scientist for Live Search....
Yahoo Brings Back Chief Marketing Officer Position
Yahoo has named Elisa Steele as the company’s new Chief Marketing Officer, effective today. Steele comes to Yahoo from NetApp, where she...
Yahoo CEO Bartz: New Management To Make Yahoo “A Lot Faster On Its Feet”
People have been writing about the forthcoming management changes at Yahoo for a few weeks. Now they’re starting to kick in officially....
Yahoo Mobile Head Boerries To Leave, How Will It Affect Yahoo Mobile?
AllThingsD is one of several sources reporting that the EVP of Connected Life at Yahoo, Marco Boerries, will be leaving the company ahead of the...
Yahoo CEO Bartz to Reorg for More ‘Top-Down’ Authority
It’s probably safe to say that Yahoo has lots of fans rooting for the company to succeed under the management of new CEO Carol Bartz. In...
Yahoo Communications Head Jill Nash To Depart
Jill Nash, the head of communications at Yahoo, is leaving the company. According to AllThingsD, Nash is “spent” after the...
Some Parallels Between Obama And Yahoo’s Carol Bartz
Both Barack Obama and incoming Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz are taking charge of their respective administrations at times of crisis: the US is in...
Carol Bartz’s ‘Gut’ May Stop Yahoo Search Sale To Microsoft
Clearly “the market” loves the MicroHoo dance and would like to see a transaction. And Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said he would...
Autodesk’s Carol Bartz Named New Yahoo CEO; Sue Decker To Leave As President
According to news out today from the Wall Street Journal, Carol Bartz, the former CEO (and current executive chairman) of software company...
Joshua Schachter Lands At Google
TechCrunch reports that Joshua Schachter, founder of the Delicious.com bookmarking service and a former Yahoo executive, had his first day on...
Jeff Weiner (Ex-Yahoo) Lands At LinkedIn
TechCrunch is reporting that former Yahoo Network chief Jeff Weiner is taking on the role of interim President at LinkedIn. Weiner left Yahoo...
