AllThingsD: Yahoo Mail Chief Sharma Leaves Company
AllThingsD reports that Vivek Sharma, General Manager of Yahoo, has reportedly left the company, according to a number of sources. Since 2009, Sharma worked in a number of areas, including commerce and...
View ArticleWSJ: Yahoo in Talks to Purchase Share in Dailymotion
The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo is said to be in talks to buy a large stake in France Telecom's online-video site Dailymotion. .
View ArticleAllThingsD: Hulu Still Attracting Buyers, Even Though It’s Not for Sale
AllThingsD reports that Hulu’s corporate owners are being approached by probable buyers. Two years back, Hulu’s corporate owners had put the video site up for sale and then withdrew it.
View ArticleYahoo: Amazon to Purchase Social Reading Site Goodreads
Yahoo Finance reports that Amazon Inc. has announced that it will purchase Goodreads, a leading site for readers and book recommendations that helps people locate and share books that they love. The...
View ArticleYahoo: Midokura Raises $17.3 Million
Yahoo reports that Midokura, a Japanese startup aimed at network virtualization, has announced it raised $17.3M in a round of funding, led by Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, with participation...
View ArticleAllThingsD: One of Yahoo’s Top Female Executives Leaves for Go Daddy
AllThingsD reports that one of Yahoo’s top women executives, Elissa Murphy, who is Vice President of engineering for cloud services, is leaving the company to join GoDaddy as the company's CTO,...
View ArticleYahoo: Music Service Rdio Launches Vdio for TV, Movies
Yahoo reports that Rdio, the music streaming service launched by a co-founder of Skype, has officially launched, Vdio, which sells customers movies and TV shows. .
View ArticleBloomberg: Apple Considering Closer Mobile Partnership with Yahoo
Bloomberg reports that Apple and Yahoo! Inc executives are talking about ways to work more closely together on mobile software, according to a person having knowledge on the matter. .
View ArticleWSJ: Yahoo Recruiting Departing AOL Ad Executive
The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo Inc. is expected to hire Ned Brody, who was AOL's number one advertising-sales exec until he resigned recently.
View ArticleSlash Gear: Yahoo Names Former AOL Exec as New Global Public Privacy Head
Slash Gear reports that Yahoo has just named Tekedra N. Mawakana as its Deputy General Counsel and Vice President of Global Public Policy. Mawakana was previously the Senior VP of Public Policy and...
View ArticleReuters: Google Purchases Wavii for $30 million
Reuters reports that Google has purchased Wavii, a Seattle-based startup with a news summarization app, for close to $30 million in cash. Google and Wavii declined to comment. .
View ArticleFred Amoroso Resigns as Chairman of Yahoo
Fred Amoroso has resigned as the chairman of Internet search giant Yahoo, the company announced late Thursday. Amoroso will remain a board member through the company's shareholders meeting on June .
View ArticleShazam Hires New CEO, Prepares for IPO
Shazam has announced that Rich Riley has been hired as its new CEO. Further, it has announced that Andrew Fisher, who has been CEO since 2005, has been appointed to the newly created position of...
View ArticleVentureBeat: Yahoo Introduces New Advertising Format
VentureBeat reports that Yahoo Inc. is launching a new advertising format called Yahoo! Stream Ads, which will run together with content on Yahoo’s news feed. .
View ArticleWSJ: Yahoo Scraps Deal To Buy DailyMotion
The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo has decided not to buy DailyMotion, after the company signed a provisional deal to buy a stake of the online-video website from France Télécom. .
View ArticleYahoo Acquires To-Do App Astrid
Yahoo has purchased 4 million user to-do app Astrid, which enables users to make task lists on their Android and iOS Smartphones and tablets, and also online. The financial details of the deal were not...
View ArticleYahoo: IGAWorks’ Mobile Advertising Platform, adPOPcorn, Coming To KakaoTalk
Yahoo reports that IGAWorks, a leading mobile app marketing company, announced it has signed a deal with Kakao Inc., South Korea’s leading messaging app service creator, to get the new mobile ad...
View ArticlePCWorld: Yahoo Purchases Loki Studios
PCWorld reports that Yahoo has acquired Loki Studios, a mobile gaming company, bringing its total acquisitions this month to four: Loki, Astrid, GoPollGo and MileWise. Yahoo said in a Tweet: "We...
View ArticleTechCrunch: Flickr Announces One Free Terabyte of Storage Space Per User
TechCrunch reports that Yahoo’s Flickr photo-sharing service is providing one full terabyte of storage space to users. In addition, Flickr is offering full resolution photo storage service. Most photo...
View ArticleThe Next Web: Flickr Experiences Disruption Four Days After Update
The Next Web reports that Flickr, the photo-sharing service, has suffered its first major outage, after receiving a revamp on Monday. The site has been flashing a #badpanda image after the outage....
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