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Want To Boost Your Career? Follow These 7 Social Media Etiquettes

But there could be some catastrophic consequences if you unleash your views that are controversial,…

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The Truth About Marissa Mayer: An Unauthorized Biography

“As part of the narrative, I have included passages of dialogue. Dialogue— what words were said— is…

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This Scandal-Plagued Ex-Yahoo CEO Just Raised $75 Million, And There's An Epic Backstory Behind It

Over the past year, Yahoo has used that $7 billion to do exactly what Loeb wanted: return the funds…

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Chinese E-Commerce Giant Alibaba Invests In U.S. E-Commerce Startup Run By Ex-Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson

Alibaba is paying $75 million for the stake in ShopRunner, run by former Yahoo Chief Executive Scot…

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This CEO Quit Yahoo's Board After Spending 'Hundreds Of Hours' In Meetings

Smith had a role in hiring one of them, Scott Thompson, who resigned after activist investor Dan Lo…

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Three men behind last year's $100 million publicly traded New Jersey deli charged in alleged stock fraud campaign

"The pastrami must be amazing," Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn quipped when he exposed the deli…

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How the world's largest airplane boneyard stores and regenerates 3,100 retired aircraft

The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) stores retired military aircraft in …

Abby Narishkin,Steve Cameron,Victoria Barranco,Alexandra Appolonia   


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The maker of TempurPedic mattresses is crashing by more than 25%

"Over the course of the week, we conducted discussions with representatives of Mattress Firm and St…

Bob Bryan   


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The maker of TempurPedic mattresses is crashing by more than 25%

"The midpoint of this updated guidance implies an increase in adjusted EBITDA of approximately 12% …

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Yahoo just pulled the plug on its Google-like research group

In a blog post, Yahoo wrote that the researchers will integrate with product teams and two of its l…

Eugene Kim   


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Marissa Mayer is still more popular than any past Yahoo CEO

The numbers are a perfect reflection of Mayer's time at Yahoo. When she first arrived in 2012, Yaho…

Eugene Kim   


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One Bone-Head Mistake From A Former Yahoo CEO Cost The Company $54 Billion

Further, at the time Thompson was on the outs with investors, so he needed to do something to save …

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NATO expert says Obama was so soft on Moscow that 'Russian legislators made fun of him'

In fact, Trump's administration finds itself under intense scrutiny after the revelation that forme…

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3 Killed In Plane Crash Near Myrtle Beach

Thompson confirmed the plane crashed on Dunn Short Cut Road. A power pole was damaged and Horry Cou…

Paul Szoldra   


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10 Things You Need To Know This Morning In Tech

Alibaba, the Chinese Internet company in which Yahoo owns a large stake, has invested in ShopRunner…

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Yahoo is stuck in a never ending drama vortex

DeCastro had failed to meet sales goals. But two years later, Yahoo's revenue remains stuck in a ru…

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JERRY YANG LAUGHS LAST: 5 Years Later, Yahoo's Share Price Finally Exceeds Microsoft's Final Offer

Current Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer deserves some credit for Yahoo's turnaround, too, of course. In par…

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Marissa Mayer's Latest Plan For Yahoo: Hiring Dozens Of PhDs

The research group is led by Chief Scientist Ron Brachman, who joined Yahoo in 2005. He's a former …

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The Three Times Marissa Mayer Refused To Fire Thousands Of Yahoo Employees

Project Alpha sought to reduce Yahoo's workforce by cutting whole divisions from the company rather…