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Chances Are You're Paying Way More for Mobile Than You Need To
Does your wireless plan suit your needs? Truly suit your needs? Because if it doesn’t, you’re potentially wasting hundreds of dollars. According to a yearlong BillShrink survey of more than 230,000...
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Proposed Spectrum Auction Could Net $36 Billion, Study Finds
Last week President Obama outlined a plan to auction off a big swath of wireless spectrum currently in the hands of TV broadcasters for over-the-air programming that could be repurposed toward creating...
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June 30 Deadline for Apple Subscriptions
Apple’s new subscription plan has a compliance deadline. June 30, according to a memo sent to publishers earlier this year. “For existing apps already in the App Store, we are providing a grace period...
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Analyst: Cheaper iPhone Would Be a Bonanza for Apple
For Apple, a smaller, cheaper iPhone may be more than a means of entering the market for lower-end phones currently dominated by Android and Symbian–it could be the final step in the company’s global...
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Brighter's Jake Winebaum Talks About Tooth-Loving Start-Up (Video)
One area of medical care that has gotten little attention online has been — wait for it — dental care. But before you click away from this story to avoid thoughts of root canals, it’s the well-funded...
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Yang Says "Not for Sale": All Hands on Yahoo's Slippery Deck!
At a prequel for the many VPs of Yahoo to the all-hands meeting for all 13,500 employees of the Silicon Valley Internet giant that is taking place at 11 am, Yahoo co-founder, director and former CEO...
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When Attrition Attacks: Yahoo's Latin America Head Departs
According to sources close to the situation, Guilherme Ribenboim, VP and managing director of Latin America and U.S. Hispanic markets, has left Yahoo for another job at a start-up. The 12-year Yahoo...
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Three Months After Bartz's Firing, It's Hurry Up and Wait at Yahoo (A Big...
“Let’s go. Yes, let’s go.” [They do not move.] – Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot” In Internet terms, the removal of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz happened a dog’s age ago. In fact, it was September 6....
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Yahoo Product Unit Readies Major Exec Reorg -- But It's Just a Tremor for the...
Yahoo’s massive product unit is readying a major reorganization, which will include a new structure, a move that is being spearheaded by its Chief Product Officer, Blake Irving. But the ground under...
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Wireless carriers are getting increasingly forceful in their efforts to pitch mobile bandwidth as a scarce, valuable commodity — setting up a battle with consumer groups that support open-Internet...
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To Stanch Layoffs, Yahoo Has Been Shopping Its Ad Technology Platforms to...
In an effort to minimize the impact of massive layoffs that Yahoo’s top management has been planning, according to sources close to the situation, one of the latest ideas to save costs and presumably...
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Yahoo Layoffs Set to Begin Next Week, Followed by Restructuring the Week After
Yahoo is preparing to begin layoffs of what could be thousands of employees starting next week, according to multiple sources, and is then expected to announce a new restructuring of the company the...
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Amid Worries About Strategery, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Tries to Soothe the...
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, who has developed a tough-talk reputation within Yahoo of late, went all sweet — well, less crabby, I guess — the day after the layoffs in which 2,000 employees were fired....
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Yahoo Beats Q1 Expectations (as Expected) -- Now, Will New CEO Outline More...
Yahoo beat Wall Street estimates in its first-quarter earnings report today, with revenue of $1.08 billion and earnings of 23 cents. That’s a gain of 28 percent from a year ago in net earnings and 38...
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They Shoot Yahoo CEOs, Don't They? But Not Without a Really Smoking Gun and a...
Earlier today, Yahoo’s persistent thorn, activist shareholder Dan Loeb of Third Point poison-penned another letter to the board of the Silicon Valley Internet company, demanding that Yahoo fire its...
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"Big, Big Bucks": Yahoo Set to Release What It Paid to Hire Marissa Mayer
Later today, Yahoo will release what is likely to be a very juicy regulatory filing about what it paid to get former Google exec Marissa Mayer to become CEO. While I could not obtain the exact numbers...
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The Price of Amazon's 4G LTE Kindle Fire Tablet, Compared to New iPad
Amazon unveiled three new versions of its Kindle Fire tablet today, with two of the three boasting a bigger screen than the original seven-inch Fire tablet, and one device built with 4G LTE...
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What Will Marissa Do?: Mayer Set to Reveal Her Strategy to Troops This Week...
On Friday, I began a series about the various and sundry things new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was up to at the Silicon Valley Internet giant. First up was a look at how she is zeroing in on improving...
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Yahoo's Mayer Finally Parts Ways With CFO Tim Morse, as Exec House-Cleaning...
Marissa Mayer, in a move that was not unexpected, has replaced Yahoo CFO Tim Morse with longtime software-focused financial exec Ken Goldman. When she bounced Yahoo’s longtime HR exec David Windley in...
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What Will Marissa Do?: Here's Yahoo's 2011 Three-Year, 21-Page Product...
As most readers know, I love a good internal memo from Yahoo — and now I have landed a really meaty one. It’s the “Yahoo! Three-Year Product Strategy” plan, a 21-page report that was completed in...
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With Low Expectations for Q3, Wall Street Hoping for New Yahoo CEO Mayer to...
Later today, new Yahoo CEO and latest savior Marissa Mayer is expected to debut in her first major turn as a public company CEO, as the company reports its third-quarter earnings. Unfortunately, her...
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Yahoo CEO Mayer Cuts End-of-Year "Week of Rest" for Employees, While Prepping...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is now starting to unveil the flip side of free lunches and smartphones, with two employee-focused moves that are a little more tough love in nature. According to several...
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Yahoo's Mayer Hoping What Happens With Big Advertisers at CES Doesn't Stay in...
So far in the six-month reign of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, there has been a pile of attention paid to the flashy cultural changes (free food!), much-needed rehauls of key mainstays (Flickr, Yahoo!...
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Telling Employees He Hasn't "Walked the Talk," Cisco's John Chambers Leans In...
As most of the free world knows by now — from the ubiquitous media coverage that Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and her new book, “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,” has gotten of late — there...
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Yahoo Paid $30 Million in Cash for 18 Months of Young Summly Entrepreneur's Time
Earlier today, Yahoo said it had acquired the trendy and decidedly stylish news reading app Summly, along with its telegenic and very young entrepreneur Nick D’Aloisio. Yahoo said it plans to close...
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