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Yahoo’s Revolving Door: Chief Technologist Leaves For Benchmark Capital

Mar 19, 2010 2:43 PM

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Chief Technologist Sam Pullara is leaving the company, capping off a week of high-profile departures. At Yahoo, Pullara was “responsible for ensuring that products we develop are competitive and provide compelling customer experiences by driving a dialogue between internal product groups, research and business leaders,” according to…

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Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, Yahoo, benchmark capital, sam pullara

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Yahoo’s Schneider To Oversee Sales Temporarily

Mar 18, 2010 7:08 PM

Yahoo is moving quickly to fill the void left this week by the surprising departure of sales chief Joanne Bradford by handing her duties temporarily to Yahoo North America head Hilary Schneider. A spokeswoman tells us that the company is “actively searching”—both internally and externally—for a replacement and that Schneider…

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Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, Yahoo, hilary schneider

Yahoo Expands Its Search Distribution Partnership With Telefonica To Spain

Mar 18, 2010 1:45 PM

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) may have lost its search deal with T-Mobile in the U.S. earlier this month—but it is still picking up search partners—at least in Europe. The company is replacing Google (NSDQ: GOOG) as the exclusive search engine on the mobile portal of Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) Espana, the biggest…

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Posted In: Mobile, Search, Companies, Yahoo, Countries, Europe, Spain, telefonica

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Long-Serving Yahoo Ash Patel Prepares To Exit

Mar 17, 2010 9:54 PM

After 14 years with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Ash Patel is finally ready to call it quits this week, we have confirmed. Yahoo observers have often speculated about when Patel would depart. He started at Yahoo in April 1996, just before Yahoo went public. He’s held a variety of titles, with…

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Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, Yahoo, ash patel

What Drove Yahoo’s Purchase Of Citizen Sports

Mar 17, 2010 7:25 PM

To buy or to build? That’s the question that drove Yahoo’s decision to buy social sports startup Citizen Sports, which owns a series of sports-related apps on the iPhone and on Facebook, according to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) media head James Pitaro. “When we really sat down and looked at what…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Sports, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Yahoo, citizen sports

Yahoo Buys Social Sports Startup Citizen Sports

Mar 17, 2010 1:34 PM

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has hinted for several months that it would be buying more companies and it’s finally made an acquisition—buying up social sports startup Citizen Sports, which it says will compliment Yahoo Sports, the top sports site in the U.S. And, indeed, the move immediately gives Yahoo clout in…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Companies, Yahoo, citizen sports

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Confirmed: Yahoo’s Bradford Joins Demand Media

Mar 15, 2010 1:00 PM

Updated: A big pick-up for Demand Media; The content distributor has hired Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) SVP Joanne Bradford as its chief revenue officer, according to AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher. Demand Media says it won’t comment on rumors; Yahoo now confirms that Bradford is leaving “to pursue a new opportunity.” Our co-editor…

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Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, Microsoft, Yahoo

Bingo! Microsoft’s Search Share Keeps Going Up

Mar 9, 2010 7:00 PM

Nine months since relaunching its search engine, Bing’s market share continues to inch up. It’s now at 11.5 percent, up from 8 percent prior to its remake, according to the latest comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) figures (via Business Insider). We’ve made a point of checking in each quarter, rather than monthly,…

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Posted In: Search, Companies, Google, Microsoft, Bing, Yahoo

T-Mobile USA Says They Ditched Yahoo For Google Because Consumers Demanded It

Mar 9, 2010 4:58 PM

T-Mobile USA executives explained that it abruptly ended its year-old exclusive search deal with Yahoo, and replaced it with Google (NSDQ: GOOG), because it is what their subscribers wanted. “It was customer led; the Google brand is associated with Internet and search,” Ian McKerlich, T-Mobile’s director of mobile web and…

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Posted In: Mobile, Search, Companies, AT&T, Google, Android, Microsoft, Bing, RIM, Blackberry, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Verizon, Yahoo

Yahoo Nets Hockey Night In Canada Streaming Rights

Mar 9, 2010 1:50 PM

Canada continues to stick it to the U.S. when it comes to hockey. Not only do they get the gold medal, now Canadians can watch Hockey Night in Canada streamed live on Yahoo Canada for the rest of the season. (For those who made it through the Vancouver closing ceremonies,…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Sports, Companies, Yahoo, Countries, Canada, stanley cup

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Yahoo Disbands Mobile Group As Part Of Reorganization

Mar 5, 2010 7:25 PM

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) may have lost its exclusive search deal with T-Mobile USA, but it is banking on a major reorganization to help recharge the company’s mobile efforts. The changes, which involves breaking up the mobile group and redeploying those employees across the company’s individual product groups, is the result…

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Posted In: Features, Exclusive, Mobile, Search, Companies, Google, T-Mobile, Yahoo

What Will Yahoo Buy Itself For Its Birthday?

Mar 5, 2010 6:25 PM

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) celebrated its 15th birthday this week with cupcakes for reporters, a Collective Soul concert for its staff, and several high-profile media and tech conference appearances for its CEO. But the company also hinted about some things it might buy for itself. At least twice this week, CEO…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Women-Centric Content, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Yahoo

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Yahoo Loses Exclusive T-Mobile USA Search Deal To Google

Mar 5, 2010 4:42 PM

T-Mobile USA has ended its year-old exclusive search deal with Yahoo, and has replaced the company with its chief rival—Google (NSDQ: GOOG). The deal shifts the U.S. mobile search dominance away from Yahoo and in favor of Google, which now works with two of the top four carriers. The hand-off…

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Posted In: Features, Exclusive, Mobile, Search, Companies, AT&T, Google, Android, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Verizon, Yahoo

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Updated: Rusty Coats Resigns As Scripps Interactive Head; Leaving Newspaper Business Behind

Mar 5, 2010 12:59 PM

Newspaper website veteran Rusty Coats is leaving his post as VP of interactive for the newspaper division of The E. W. Scripps, E&P reports. In a memo (after the jump) sent to Scripps staffers, Coats, who was instrumental in establishing the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium, also said that he’s…

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Posted In: Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, Scripps, E W Scripps, Yahoo, rusty coats

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Yahoo’s European Mobile Head Mitch Lazar Resigns

Mar 2, 2010 7:50 PM

Mitch Lazar, Yahoo’s European Mobile managing director, is stepping down from his post after working at the company for four and a half years. Lazar marks one of many recent departures from Yahoo’s mobile group. Over the past year-or-so, departures range from all the way at the top, like Marco…

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Posted In: Features, Exclusive, Industry Moves, Mobile, Search, Companies, Yahoo, Countries, Europe, UK, mitch lazar

AT&T Strips Google’s Search Off Android; Will Verizon Or T-Mobile Follow?

Mar 2, 2010 5:07 PM

AT&T (NYSE: T) is gearing up to launch the Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Backflip, its first Android device, on Sunday, and with it comes a little surprise: The Google-powered phone has been stripped of its flagship search engine, and instead comes loaded with Yahoo. The removal of Google’s search by AT&T…

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Posted In: Mobile, Search, Companies, AT&T, Google, Android, Microsoft, Bing, Motorola, RIM, Blackberry, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Verizon, Yahoo

Yahoo News Brings News Commenting Back

Mar 2, 2010 4:50 PM

After a three year hiatus, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) News is once again opening up to news commenters. The site, which has been the top source of online news in the country for several years now, quietly added a standard commenting feature late last evening to all of its articles, which…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Online News, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Yahoo

Yahoo’s Bartz: Company Would ‘Absolutely’ Entertain Buyout Offers

Mar 2, 2010 2:00 PM

A notable exchange during Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz’s rather rowdy appearance on CNBC’s Power Lunch today. Moderator: “Is Yahoo better off as a trinket on someone else’s charm bracelet?” Bartz: “A trinket? What are you saying? Yahoo isn’t a trinket. Yahoo is the bracelet.” Moderator: “Would you get…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Yahoo, carol bartz

Video @ paidContent2010: Yahoo’s Schneider: ‘Local Is Digital Crack’

Mar 2, 2010 8:00 AM

Are things at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) finally starting to stabilize? In a Q&A on stage at paidContent2010, Hilary Schneider, EVP of Yahoo Americas, talked about everything from the Newspaper Consortium to Yahoo’s latest branding campaign, insisting that after numerous reorgs, the company is finally, well, organized. In the interview with…

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Posted In: Events, ContentNext Events, paidContent 2010, Companies, Yahoo, hilary schneider, staci kramer

4A’s Roundup: Yahoo’s Bartz Talks Data; Huffington Beyond The Paywall

Mar 1, 2010 11:38 PM

Marketers and agency execs began gathering for the 4A’s Transformation 2010 conference in San Francisco to go over the current challenges to the traditional way of doing business. On day two, topics included the use of consumer data and who’s got control of it, the growth of consumer control over…

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Posted In: Advertising, Marketing, Research & Metrics, Research, Social Media, Companies, Yahoo, carol bartz

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