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Dear Yahoo Board: C’mon, Get On With It (A CEO by Tomorrow Would Be Good)
Dear Yahoo Board: C’mon, Get On With It (A CEO by Tomorrow Would Be Good)
BoomTown’s got nothing, which is not something I like to say very much. I am talking about the Yahoo CEO search, which is either being done by the Internet giant’s board in such elegant secrecy and with such amazing stealth that it is getting by everyone. That or it’s ...
Investment Group Makes Run For Yahoo, Using Microsoft’s Money
techcrunch.com — Interest in troubled Internet giant Yahoo has not waned, it just took a break for the holidays.... A group of well known Silicon Valley executives and top investment bankers are putting together a Yahoo takeover deal that would be financed largely from ... (more) Investment Group Makes Run For Yahoo, Using Microsoft’s ...
High hopes at Yahoo, Intel for Internet-enabled TV
High hopes at Yahoo, Intel for Internet-enabled TV
ces.cnet.com — Yahoo's Widget Channel software for TVs and video devices shows a link to Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing site,... stock prices, and an advertisement. Intel, Yahoo, and several partners will show the technology off at CES 2009. (Credit: Yahoo) Yahoo ... (more) High hopes at Yahoo, Intel for Internet-enabled TV
Samsung, Yahoo, Intel Put TV Widget Pieces in Place - News and Analysis by PC Magazine
pcmag.com — Samsung Electronics , Intel , and Yahoo put two key pieces of their plan in place to... connect TVs to Internet-equipped widgets this year. Samsung agreed to support the technology inside of selected 2009 TVs, and Adobe said that it would port a version ... (more) Samsung, Yahoo, Intel Put TV Widget Pieces in Place - ...
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Last Bytes: Steve Jobs' Health, Yahoo, and Google
Tech Observer — Apple's trendsetting ways fall short when it comes to the environment. [WSJ] How much are hot domains going for? YellowPages recently paid $3.85 million, in cash, for YP.com. But AT&T, YellowPages' parent, paid $100 million for YellowPages.com in 2006. [TechCrunch] Seems Kara Swisher's more antsy about getting a new CEO into Yahoo than its board is. [AllThingsD] Lots of hullabaloo  around a report by Gizmodo that Steve Jobs' health is in fact behind the cancellation of MacWorld appearance. Here's the original report. [Gizmodo ...

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