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One More Reason to Occupy Wall Street: “Concern” Over Accurate Tech News
Worrywart Wall Street is agonizing over facts.
AllThingsD Covers the Tech of Super Bowl XLVI (And the Ads, the Game and Madonna)
Ina Fried of AllThingsD liveblogged the game, the commercials, the tech and more.
Are You Ready for Some Football? A Techie Guide to the Super Bowl.
For those looking for a side of tech to go with their Super Bowl, AllThingsD’s Ina Fried offers a guide to all the apps, streaming and more, designed to make the most of NFL’s championship Sunday.
New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Has Big Plans, but Can’t Tell You About Them
In the meantime, you’ve got to be comfortable with the fact that he has plans.
Lucky 13: After More Than a Dozen Failing Quarters, How Will New Yahoo CEO Roll the Dice?
Maybe Yahoo should take its earnings to Vegas and bet it all on red!
Jerry Yang Leaves Yahoo
After 17 years, the Yahoo co-founder has left his board seat and all other positions, effective today.
New Yahoo CEO’s $27M Pay Package for 2012 = Lotsa Lettuce
Newly installed Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has got to be hoping that the world is not ending in 2012!
Amazon May Miss Q4 Estimates, Despite Selling More Than One Million Kindles a Week
But maybe that is the problem. Amazon’s top-selling item this holiday season likely has a profit margin close to $0.
Yahoo Intensifies Search for CEO (With Hulu’s Kilar as One Dream Unicorn Candidate)
Wanted, one magical exec to work miracles against increasingly troublesome dragons. Ability to sparkle a plus.
The Yahoo Lawsuits Begin: Put the Non-Blabby Deals in Your PIPE and Smoke It
Well, that didn’t take long, did it?
Hewlett-Packard Close to Deciding webOS Unit’s Fate
HP is said to be close to deciding the fate of its webOS software business, and will reveal it today at an all-hands meeting led by CEO Meg Whitman. Will someone buy it?
Yahoo’s Activist Shareholder Loeb Now Targeting Jerry Yang and Wants Him Off the Board
Third Point’s Daniel Loeb — the smack-tastic hedge fund manager who owns a big slug of Yahoo — thinks co-founder and director Jerry Yang now needs to go.
Yahoo Buys Ad Network Interclick for $270 Million
Wait: Isn’t Yahoo on the block? Sure. But meanwhile, it is also trying to fix its ad business, which is why Ross Levinsohn is buying ad tech.
Yahoo Shares Melt as Rumors Collide (Plus, I Add Another Log to the Fire)
The Hamlet of Internet companies asks: To be or not to be? That is the question. Or maybe something else.
Boo! Citing Spooky Economy, Citi Cuts Targets for Google, AOL, Demand Media.
Of course, if October 2011 ends up looking like October 2008, then all stocks are going to plummet. But Mark Mahaney has specific concerns about Google and six other tech companies.
Amazon Finally Challenges the iPad, With the $200 Kindle Fire
The stuff you care about, via Bloomberg: $200, no Wi-Fi, 30-day free trial to Amazon Prime.
Déjà Vu: Activist Yahoo Shareholder Takes Aim at Board
It’s not Carl Icahn this time, but the investor attacks are all too familiar for Yahoo.
HTC Bites Back Against Apple, Suing With Patents It Got From Google
In the latest in an ongoing battle between Cupertino and the fast-growing Taiwan cellphone maker, HTC is reportedly suing Apple using patents that it acquired from Google in the last two weeks.
Yang Says “Not for Sale”: All Hands on Yahoo’s Slippery Deck!
As a day of meetings begin for Yahoos over the sudden firing of CEO Carol Bartz, I’ll be the one in the back taking notes. Co-founder Jerry Yang says “no sale,” which means the sale is definitely in progress!
Potential Buyers Sizing Up Kodak Patents
Are Kodak’s digital imaging patents truly worth more than the entirety of the company itself? We may soon find out.
VeriFone Willing to Shell Out $1 Billion Annually to Grow Payments Network
As the largest maker of cash registers and other payment processing devices, VeriFone is willing to spend up to $1 billion a year on acquisitions to stay on top.
Exclusive: Apple’s Mobile Ad Head Andy Miller Departs for Highland Capital
Andy Miller, the high-profile VP of mobile advertising at Apple, is planning on leaving the company, according to sources close to the situation.
Insider Buying: Top Execs — But Not Its CEO Carol Bartz — Purchase Shares of Yahoo on the Open Market
Ross Levinsohn and Blake Irving, who head Yahoo’s two biggest units, go long on the company. Someone had to do it.
