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Yahoo Completes $1.1 Billion Deal For Tumblr
SUNNYVALE (CBS / AP) — Yahoo has completed its $1.1 billion acquisition of online blogging forum Tumblr. The move represents Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s boldest move since she left Google a little less...
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Yahoo CEO Blows Off ‘Attractive’ Comment From ‘Dirty Old’ Shareholder
SUNNYVALE (CBS SF) – Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was forced to endure some bizarre comments and questions while presiding over her first shareholder meeting Tuesday. Mayer has been CEO of Yahoo for nearly...
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Mayer’s Magnetism, Alibaba Jackpot Rejuvenate Yahoo
SUNNYVALE (CBS / AP) — Not much had been going right for Yahoo until it lured Marissa Mayer away from Google to become its CEO last summer. The move is shaping up as the best thing to happen to Yahoo...
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Yahoo To Buy 40M Shares From Outgoing Board Member
SUNNYVALE (CBS/AP) — Activist investor Dan Loeb and two other directors nominated by his hedge fund are leaving Yahoo’s board after big gains in the Internet company’s stock price over the past year....
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Larry Magid: Yahoo Reportedly Courts Katie Couric For Web Show
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Just a day after Yahoo passed Google in terms of U.S. Web visitors, the company’s CEO Marissa Mayer is reportedly courting Katie Couric for a Web interview show on its homepage....
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Yahoo Unveils First New Logo In 18 Years
SUNNYVALE (CBS / AP) — Yahoo has adopted a new logo for the first time since shortly after the Internet company’s founding 18 years ago. The redesigned look unveiled late Wednesday is part of a...
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Yahoo CEO Says Company Now Has 800 Million Users
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) – Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says the Internet company now has about 800 million worldwide users, a 20 percent increase since she was lured away from Google 15 months ago to steer...
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Yahoo Stock Tops $30 For 1st Time In 5 Years
SUNNYVALE (CBS/AP) — Yahoo is getting closer to propelling its stock beyond the price that Microsoft offered to buy the Internet company in 2008, a feat that seemed unattainable until Yahoo hired...
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Yahoo Quarterly Results Dragged Down By Revenue Drop
SUNNYVALE (AP) — Yahoo’s latest quarterly report shows CEO Marissa Mayer is still having trouble bringing in more revenue as online advertisers spend more money at Google, Facebook and other rivals....
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Must-See US Technology Conventions In 2014
MacWorld (credit: Randy Yagi) America’s biggest and most important technology show already ended its run in Las Vegas, but plenty of other prominent events worth attending are still to come. The...
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Yahoo Reportedly Plans To Produce 4 Original TV Series
SUNNYVALE (CBS SF) — Yahoo is planning to roll out its own original, cable TV-style programming, according to a published report. The Wall Street Journal reported Yahoo is close to ordering four web...
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Yahoo’s 1Q Earnings Highlighted By Alibaba, Modest Ad Gains
SUNNYVALE (CBS / AP) — Yahoo is still prospering from its lucrative investments in Asia while the Internet company’s listless advertising sales are picking up, if ever so slightly, under CEO Marissa...
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Alibaba Group Aiming To Raise $1 Billion In IPO
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Alibaba Group, China’s leading e-commerce company, is dangling a deal that could turn into one of the biggest IPOs in U.S. history. In a long-awaited move made Tuesday, Alibaba...
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President Obama To Stop At Mountain View Walmart In Latest Bay Area...
MOUNTAIN VIEW (CBS SF) – President Barack Obama will make an appearance at the Walmart store in Mountain View to talk about energy efficiency, as part of his latest fundraising trip to the Bay Area...
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Concerts On Yahoo Make Best of Industry Struggles
SUNNYVALE (CBS SF/AP) – Sometimes the struggles of an industry can bring music to your ears. And your screens. Live Nation’s partnership with Sunnyvale-based Yahoo to stream one live concert every day...
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Yahoo’s 3rd Quarter Earnings Soar On Alibaba Windfall
SUNNYVALE (CBS / AP) — Yahoo’s (YHOO) third-quarter earnings soared as the Internet company collected a huge windfall from Alibaba’s recent IPO. Revenue also rose slightly from the previous year, a...
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Stanford Researchers Find Telecommuters More Productive, But Workers At Home...
STANFORD (CBS SF) – With more companies looking at allowing their employees to work from home, a team of researchers from Stanford found home-based workers are more productive, but also found...
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Yahoo Revival Not Evident In Latest Earnings Report; Value Beyond Asian...
SUNNYVALE (AP) — Yahoo (YHOO) is still struggling to boost revenue nearly three years into CEO Marissa Mayer’s tenure, magnifying concerns that the Internet company holds little value beyond its...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s Compensation Surges To $42 Million; Highest-Paid...
SUNNYVALE (CBS/AP) — The value of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s pay package surged last year, making her the highest-paid female CEO of Standard & Poors 500 companies. Meanwhile, a USA Today analysis...
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Meet The Bay Area Women On Forbes Magazine’s ‘World’s 100 Most Powerful...
They hold the keys to the kingdom. These Bay Area women are among the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women, according to Forbes Magazine. The are extremely well-paid and extremely well-educated. The...
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