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Exclusive: Yahoo's Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb Nears Completion — 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 a dramatic end to a controversy over a fake computer science degree …
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Tweets: @rafat, @thatdrew, @om, @parislemon, @eghosao, @atul, @caseynewton, @msuster, @levie, @gaberivera, @edbott, @gaberivera, @jason and @dannysullivan
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Yahoo! Names Fred Amoroso Chairman and Appoints Ross Levinsohn Interim CEO — Board Announces Settlement with Third Point LLC — SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) today announced that the Board of Directors has named Fred Amoroso as Chairman of the Board of Directors …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Here's New Yahoo CEO's First Note to Troops! (The Leaking-Internal-Memos-to-ATD Policy Remains in Effect As Usual) — Here is the first missive to Yahoo's troops from new interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, which I obtained from 653 sources at the company. (Joke alert! Sort of!)| Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
Did Yahoo sow the seeds of its own demise with Hadoop? — Yahoo is famous for saying that Hadoop, the data-storage-and-processing platform it helped develop into a big data juggernaut, is “behind every click” on the site. But as the world once again starts analyzing Yahoo's myriad woes …
Tweets: @cotton and @thebrianfink
| Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
Meet Yahoo's New Interim Chief, Ross Levinsohn — Yahoo's revolving door of chief executives has turned again. — Scott Thompson, Yahoo's chief executive of just four months, will leave following a growing controversy over his embellished academic record, according to people briefed on the matter.
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| Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily: |
What Eduardo Saverin owes America. (Hint: Nearly everything.) — When Eduardo Saverin was 13, his family discovered that his name had turned up on a list of victims to be kidnapped by Brazilian gangs. Saverin's father was a wealthy businessman in São Paulo, and it was inevitable …
Tweets: @pkafka, @jonathanstray, @dangillmor and @anildash
| Nick Bilton / Bits: |
Disruptions: Facebook's Real-Life ‘Spidey Sense’ — Imagine if you had a superpower that would allow you to peer into the future of the Internet? It's a pretty nerdy power compared to Spider-Man's web-slinging, but you could use this superhuman ability to see what would be popular soon, and in some instances, change the future.
Tweets: @joshconstine, @mhj and @trevortimm
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic — Hollywood, software giants and the major music labels see BitTorrent as one of the largest threats to their business. — Billions in revenue are lost each year, they claim. But not for long if the Russian based startup “Pirate Pay” has its way.
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The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymore … What happens when all the things we based our icons on don't exist anymore? Do they just become, ahem, iconic glyphs whose origins are shrouded in mystery? — Floppy Disk - Save — Save? Save where?
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
HBO's ‘Game Of Thrones’ On Track To Be Crowned Most Pirated Show Of 2012 — Brace yourselves, HBO. The pirates are coming. — With its popularity swelling and no easy way to watch for viewers without cable, HBO's hit series “Game of Thrones” is inspiring massive levels of piracy …
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ZDNet, Pulse2 Technology … and Mashable!
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Box: The Path From Arrington's Backyard To A Billion Dollar Business — It's no secret that many deals have been struck and key relationships formed at TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington's former house in Atherton. In case you aren't familiar, Arrington threw epic parties at his home … Sponsor Posts
Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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