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MAY 3, 2021

Yahoo--one of the Internet's first companies--is back as a standalone company, after the private equity acquisition of Verizon Media by private equity firm Apollo Funds. According to Verizon and Apollo Global Management, Apollo will pay $5 billion for Verizon Media, which will be renamed Yahoo as a result of the deal.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Idealab-backed developer of mobile apps and other mobile advertising products, said today that it has named Yahoo veteran Eric Aledort as the company''s Chief Business Development Officer. Aledort was most recently VP, head of media for Yahoo''s global partnerships group. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 13, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to be a great leader and seem to be having this conversation a lot lately about Facebook, Yahoo!, Take Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo! I never worked at Yahoo! But his role as “Chief Yahoo!&# But his tenure as CEO (and frankly the whole culture of Yahoo!

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MARCH 31, 2014

Levinsohn is the best known of the three, having most recently been interim CEO at Yahoo!, marketshare executive advisory board analytics software marketing markets yahoo levinsohn ross' in addition to serving at Fuse Capital and Fox Interactive Media. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 10, 2016

Yahoo said that it added both Brandt and Catherine J. said Thursday that it has named two new, independent directors--including Eric K. Brandt, former CFO of Broadcom--as it looks to explore strategic alternatives for the company.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Cunninghame was last overseeing and developing marketplace strategy for the OpenX real-time bidding platform, and also had served as Director of Product Management at Yahoo. He was at Overture before it was acquired by Yahoo.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

About a decade ago, when Yahoo! I recall speaking with then VP of Marketing Karen Edwards about Yahoo's success. She was adamant that one the primary reasons Yahoo beat its initial competitors, including Lycos, Excite and AltaVista, was because (paraphrasing), "Yahoo was the coolest company in Silicon Valley.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Miso Robotics, a maker of burger-flipping robotic arms, announced it has appointed former Yahoo executive Melissa Burghardt as its chief operating officer.

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APRIL 6, 2011

ReachLocal helps small and medium sized busineses place pay-per-click ads on Google, Yahoo, and Bing, as well as other websites. ReachLocal said it will train SureFire's dedicated sales force to sell its products and services. Business details of the alliance were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 15, 2012

SaneBox has recently launched an email plugin which works with Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Microsoft Outlook, and other email programs, and helps users filter, set up reminders, unsubscribe to unwanted email lists, and much more. A new startup focused on taming email overload has recently emerged, and looks to have some LA connections. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Venice, California-based ZEFR , the online content distribution startup founded by Zach James and Richard Raddon, has some new experience in its corner: Ross Levinsohn, the former interim CEO of Yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

Docstoc is also powering similar marketplaces for sites such as Yahoo Small Business, Entrepreneur Magazine, and Inc. The effort includes both free, as well as premium documents from Docstoc. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Dossett (who has summitted Mount Everest two times) was also previously CEO of Pasadena-based AdventureLink, and also served at Yahoo! Porch''s founders are split between Seattle and Southern California. and Microsoft. READ MORE>>. porch jeff dossett chief revenue officer demand media executive everest'

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

Spreeify said its product works with major ad servers (DoubleClick, Sizmek, OpenX, AppNexus), DSPs (Rubicon Project, Turn, RocketFuel, DataXu, TheTradeDesk) and publishers (AOL, Yahoo, Pandora, MSN), and is already being used by such customers as JustFab, Sony and Papyrus. Pricing on the new tool was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 13, 2014

Nassef was previously Vice President and Managing Director of Yahoo! As part of the funding, the company said that it has added former Yahoo! The company says its service helps viewers follow, share and discover TV and video via their mobile devices. Middle East & Africa, and also was head of Maktoob.com. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

In this post, I want to look at just the question of when it makes sense to use Facebook Connect, Twitter Oauth, OpenID, Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication, Google Friend Connect or basically any of the other authentication mechanisms. Identity Wars: Google & Yahoo! Example What do I mean?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Hello, Yahoo!?! (I I talked to an ex Yahoo! You need to segment your audience and find a way to get your highest quality customers over to O&O (owned & operated) inventory where you can get higher CPMs, sell merchandise and capture more customer information. Eventually other networks will emerge. They have to. Interview here).

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JUNE 23, 2011

Messenger : Jason Lehmbeck , Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop , former VP of Emerging Ad Products at Overture Services and Yahoo! The Core team had worked together at Yahoo! We tried to solve their problems while we were at Yahoo!, We lived together for seven years while at Yahoo! It was a typical storyline.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

We had a blast together in December at our first #140conf LA Meetup at Yahoo! 140conf LA Meetup hosted by Jeff Pulver and Eric Greenspan. Hello again! didn’t we? Thanks to Jeff Pulver for another great event. Well, we couldn’t leave well enough alone so we’re gonna do it again and this time, it will be bigger and better.

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APRIL 23, 2013

The issue of whether or not to allow remote workers has come to the forefront after a highly publicized effort by Yahoo''s new CEO, Marissa Meyer, to force that company''s entire workforce to come into the office. Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer put the company''s new policy in place in February, igniting a firestorm of controversy.

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JUNE 2, 2010

But it seems to me that Google has 2 issues: For all of the talk about Yahoo’s “ Peanut Butter Manifesto &# in which Yahoo! I think when they put their mind to things they are the most talented technology company on the planet. Or at least in the top 3.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Metacloud said Grey had been at Google for the last decade, and also has served at Yahoo!, Metacloud--which helps companies deploy enterprise scale, private clouds based on OpenStack--said that Grey will be responsible for heading up its scalability efforts and architecture. Earthlink, Digital Planey, USWeb, and Idealab.

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JUNE 9, 2014

The funding came from Canaan Partners, and also included A Grade Investments, Pejman Mar Ventures, Sherpa Ventures, and Jerry Yang (Yahoo). Santa Monica-based Washio , which operates a smartphone driven, laundry and dry cleaning pickup and delivery service, said today that it has raised $10.5M in a Series A funding round.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Geocities , the original Southern California internet startup--which was founded all the way back in 1994 in Los Angeles--will finally disappear completely from the Internet, as Yahoo said today that it will shut down its Japanese Geocities site. Geocities was one of the first Internet IPOs out of Los Angeles, and sold to Yahoo for $4.5

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MAY 13, 2013

And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! You have been at Google, Salesforce.com, Yahoo! Does Yahoo! For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. has now employed the same strategy. Year in, year out.

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APRIL 18, 2012

The company said the new office will help support its Bay Area client base, plus provide it with local access to agency representatives at Google and Yahoo. The Search Agency is a provider of search marketing services to clients, providing paid search, SEO, and other services to help its clients.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

The company says its goal is to become the "Yahoo!, CHNL's software lets users create their own "channels", incorporating content from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, and elsewhere, and share that out to their friends. CHNL is headed by John Wander. MSN, or Google for the social media age." READ MORE>>.

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JULY 1, 2014

The company was founded by Sean Lynch and Steve Curry, who are veterans of Yahoo! Metacloud is venture backed by Silicon Valley Bank, Pelion Ventures, UMC, Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Ventures. and Ticketmaster. READ MORE>>. metacloud trace3 partnership implementation opencloud cloud stack software infrastructure'

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OCTOBER 22, 2011

I sure wish the founders of Yahoo! But for years Yahoo! He said, “The reason I needed to go was the I believe that you either lead, follow or get the fuck out of the way. I was no longer leading, so I became the problem.” ” Hallelujah. understood that. What a wonderful company they built.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Talking To Yahoo''s Jerry Yang. He quickly realized the power of the Internet when he came across a relatively obscure site, called Yahoo! But there was this one site that somebody told me about or maybe I read about and it was called Yahoo! In His Dorm. and it was run by some college students up north (at) Stanford.

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Chuang is currently Chief Technology Officer at Oversee.net,and also has served at such companies as Yahoo! Los Angeles-based Laudville , a startup developing an online platform to help users share entertainment like movies, books, TV, and music with friends, has added Gene Chuang to its board of advisors, according to the firm.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! They had a lock on “distribution&# and were named AOL, Yahoo!, And because Delicious was bought by Yahoo! (a Excite, Netscape & MSN.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The firm--best known until now for its effort to recruit employees with the promise of $11,000 wrapped in bacon, free beer, and more--said that the funding also included a long list of angels, including Terry Semel (Yahoo), Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, Honest Company), Michael Lazerow (Buddy Media), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), Red Swan Ventures, Mark Mullen (..)

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

Alston is not the first CEO to lose his position over a fabricated resume; Internet giant Yahoo faced a similar executive turnover last year , deposing new CEO Scott Thompson, after Yahoo uncovered a similar resume issue. Alston had been at Ixia for the last nine years. READ MORE>>. ixia network testing hardware equipment resume'

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The protocol is used for single sign-on to applications in the cloud, and is what allows users to log into different web-based services using their Google, Yahoo, or other OAuth-capable service. OAuth is an industry standard used to share login data across different, cloud-based applications and services. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 19, 2012

The team includes entertainment and tech vets who have worked on computer games from Activision, animation from Dreamworks and Disney, and who have worked at Yahoo! and Demand Media. The team is pitching the game with an animated pitch, showing off some of its animation chops and a preview of its caveman. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Beats has been working on the music streaming service since last year, acquiring existing music streaming service MOG , and hiring Topin/Yahoo Music''s Ian Rogers to head the new venture. READ MORE>>. beats electronics audio streaming music stream content'

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