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Stern Named Head of New Strategery Role at Yahoo
Longtime Yahoo exec Raymond Stern (pictured here) — who seems to have fit into a lot of management reorgs in his short time at the Silicon Valley Internet giant — has been named to a new role at the...
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Exclusive: Yahoo's Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb...
Yahoo’s embattled CEO Scott Thompson (pictured here) is set to step down from his job at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, in what will be dramatic end to a controversy over a fake computer science...
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The King Is Dead, Long Live the … Whatever: Levinsohn's Management Moves at...
Here’s a memo that interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn sent his troops earlier today about some management switcheroos. No surprise that ousted CEO Scott Thompson’s first big hire from his former job at...
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Former CEO Thompson Might Be Gone, But Internal Investigation Into ResuMess...
While former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson fades from the tech scene — besides getting jacked from the top job at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, he’s also just come off two tech boards he had served on...
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It's Time for an Internal Memo: Dibble Takes Over All Tech at Yahoo
Even though he is interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn just made a significant change in Yahoo’s tech organization, putting David Dibble in charge of both central technology and core platforms. Previously,...
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In a move that comes as little surprise to anyone paying attention to insider baseball, top Yahoo exec Rich Riley will be departing the company. Riley, who has had a number of jobs at the Silicon...
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Ross Went to Cannes and All You Yahoos Got Was This Internal Memo!
Interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn released a travelogue of an internal memo today to Yahoo staff about his recent sojourn in the south of France. There, he attended the big annual advertising confab...
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Yahoo's Longtime Top Lawyer Mike Callahan Departs (Internal Memo!)
Mike Callahan, Yahoo’s longtime and powerful general counsel, is leaving the company. According to an internal memo, which is embedded below, Callahan does not have another job. But sources said that...
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"Yes, Keep Moving": Marissa Mayer's First Memo to Yahoos (Natch!)
While I might abandon my internal memo-quest at Yahoo at some point soon, I wanted to make sure to post the very first one from newly installed — and well-paid — CEO Marissa Mayer. “You are doing...
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Here's the Do-Not-Forward Mayer Memo Bidding Goodbye to Ross "The Hair"...
As I just reported, former interim CEO Ross Levinsohn is leaving Yahoo. Here’s the memo that its new CEO, former Google exec, Marissa Mayer just sent out to the troops, which is a very classy one, as...
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Divorce at eHarmony: Founder Takes Back CEO Job from former Zynga Exec Verba
The founder and chairman of eHarmony, Dr. Neil Clark Warren, is returning to the job of CEO at the well-known and oftimes controversial matchmaking site, according to an internal memo I obtained. He...
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"The Jury Has Now Spoken": Apple CEO Tim Cook's Memo to Employees on Patent...
After Apple’s legal victory over Samsung in the much-disputed patent infringement battle earlier today, its CEO Tim Cook sent a memo to the tech giant’s employees. Cook, who took over at the company...
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Sweet! Mayer Declares That It's Peanut Butter and Jelly Time at Yahoo.
Remember the infamous “Peanut Manifesto,” in which former Yahoo exec Brad Garlinghouse likened the company’s innovation process to peanut butter? In it, he wrote: “I’ve heard our strategy described as...
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What Will Marissa Do?: Mayer Set to Reveal Her Strategy to Troops This Week...
On Friday, I began a series about the various and sundry things new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was up to at the Silicon Valley Internet giant. First up was a look at how she is zeroing in on improving...
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Yahoo's Top Lawyer Says Leaked Internal Memos Are "Uncool" (According to --...
At Yahoo’s Friday regular weekly FYI meeting for employees, one of the topics for its Q&A moderation system that got read in front of the crowd was that there should be a “shout-out” to recently...
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What Will Marissa Do?: Here's Yahoo's 2011 Three-Year, 21-Page Product...
As most readers know, I love a good internal memo from Yahoo — and now I have landed a really meaty one. It’s the “Yahoo! Three-Year Product Strategy” plan, a 21-page report that was completed in...
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As Yahoo Readies Doling Out Alibaba Billions to Shareholders, Mayer Memo Says...
Yahoo could announce in the coming week what it plans to do with the billions of dollars it recently garnered after closing the sale of a portion of its stake in China’s Alibaba, according to sources...
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Yahoo Loses Government Relations Head to Airbnb (Internal Memo Time!)
Yahoo’s David Hantman, who has been its deputy general counsel and VP of global public policy, is taking a similar job at the online rentals start-up Airbnb, according to an internal email memo he...
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After Declaring It the Future of Yahoo, CEO Mayer Appoints IntoNow's Cahan to...
Adam Cahan A very important management shift at Yahoo got a bit lost in last week’s news of CEO Marissa Mayer’s first acquisition, a small mobile start-up called Stamped. That would be the appointment...
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Mayer Brings Back Ex-Yahoo Rossiter to Lead Platforms (Memo Time!)
According to an internal memo, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has brought back Jay Rossiter, who left the company under the regime of Scott Thompson, to lead its platforms effort “focusing on the tools and...
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