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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…
Dena Aubin, Reuters
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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…
Owen Thomas
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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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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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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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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% …
Bob Bryan
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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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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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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 …
Julie Bort
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Yahoo Chairman Fred Amoroso Quits
"I'm very grateful and proud of the progress Yahoo! has made over the past year," said Amoroso. "Wh…
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Yahoo's Chairman Is Out Because Marissa Mayer Was Not His First Choice For CEO
We've communicated with three Yahoo sources since the news broke.Given what they told us, we think …
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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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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,…
Kamlesh Dixit
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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…
Matthew Fox
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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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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…
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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…
Alex Lockie
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How Marissa Mayer Kicked Dan Loeb Off Yahoo's Board
An industry executive explained it best to McLean, saying, "She dodged a bullet ... I thought she a…