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Yahoo Promises Not to Screw Tumblr Up
Yahoo Promises Not to Screw Tumblr Up (via slashdot) Yahoo has agreed to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Founded in February 2007, Tumblr hosts 108.6 million blogs, many of which emphasize images and .gifs over written content. While Tumblr does earn some money from advertising, its creators haven’t tried to plaster it with ads in the same manner… continue…
Fatherhood Equality: Yahoo Policy Raises Questions
Following the backlash from its recent telecommuting ban, Yahoo has doubled its paid maternity leave for new mothers from eight to 16 weeks. But new fathers didn’t fare as well — they’ll continue to have only eight weeks’ leave under the new policy. Yahoo’s approach is just the latest example of fatherhood getting the short-shrift in family leave, which is echoed across a number of companies and industries. But in the technology industry, which is largely male, this discrepancy is… continue…
What Would an Apple-Yahoo Baby Look Like?
If Apple and Yahoo Got Together, What Would the Baby Look Like? (via slashdot) Apple and Yahoo are reportedly in discussions over some sort of partnership, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal, which drew its information from unnamed sources “briefed on the matter.” While the parties are quite some distance away from signing any sort of agreement, the report… continue…
Mayer’s Hiring Practices May Not Do Yahoo Any Favors
Marissa Mayer’s ban of telecommuting at Yahoo and the hiring practices she’s said to have imposed on the struggling company smack of practices at her previous employer, Google. So how come everyone in Silicon Valley is crying foul? What’s good for Google can’t be good for anyone else? Resume Checkpoint Reportedly, Mayer now requires that she sign off on every new hire, though she denies favoring those with elite university credentials, according to Reuters. Though most people assume this is a… continue…
Does Yahoo’s Telecommuting Ban Signal a Trend?
Why a tech executive such as Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer would all but eliminate the option of telecommuting has spawned any number of hypotheses about her motivations, from forcing employees to work more closely together to simply driving home the point that these are critical times for the once-dominant Internet brand. But here’s a question we haven’t seen many people ask: Is Mayer simply the first Silicon Valley CEO to begin down a path many others have wanted to follow for… continue…
Will Yahoo’s Telecommuting Ban Hurt Recruitment?
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer has put the kibosh on working from home, raising plenty of eyebrows as the rest of the tech world — and indeed the wider business world — continues to shift toward greater workplace flexibility. In a memo obtained by AllThingsDigital, the company’s HR chief, Jackie Reses, said that “to become the absolute best place to work … we need to be working side-by-side.” Reses continued: Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria… continue…
Where Are Search Engines Taking Us?
To search is to Google, to Google is to search. It’s only taken 14 years for Google to become a verb as well as a brand. Today’s search engine market has two players: Google, and all the rest. The giant’s market share exceeds 90 percent worldwide, according to StatCounter. That leaves competitors like Microsoft’s Bing, Yahoo!, Yandex, Baidu and others struggling for a slice of the remaining 10 percent. Meanwhile Google, unencumbered by the need for market share, Google focuses on… continue…
New York City’s 10 Coolest Startups
Silicon Alley keeps expanding. New York City’s startup scene is flourishing as funding finds its way to the brightest ideas. Money is flowing not only from local heavyweights such as Union Square Ventures and AOL Ventures, but also from legions of angel investors and even Kickstarter. Many of today’s startup pioneers have been around the track once or twice before, and they seem to realize more than ever that every good idea needs to be accompanied not only by wishful thinking,… continue…
Yahoo’s Flickr Joins Instagram, Twitter Battle
Yahoo’s Flickr Steps into Instagram, Twitter Photo Battle (via slashdot) Now this is just getting ridiculous. The same week that Twitter and Instagram decide to kick off a minor war over photo sharing, Yahoo announced a new Flickr app for iPhone (along with some new navigation tools for Flickr’s Website). Clearly the fate of the Internet—and the fortunes of multibillion… continue…
Mayer Poaches Google’s de Castro for COO Slot
Henrique de Castro, head of Google’s global Partner Business Solutions Group, will join Yahoo at chief operating officer in January. It appears that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is indeed using her former employer as a recruiting ground, as many had expected. De Castro’s loss is a blow for Google but a notable win for Yahoo, and he didn’t come cheap. Mayer offered him a $56 million pay package, according to All Things Digital. He’ll be worth it if his experience… continue…
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