Daily Archives: September 6, 2011

Yahoo Source Last Week: Carol Bartz Is A "Lame Duck" And Has "Checked Out" (YHOO)

September 6, 2011
Yahoo Source Last Week: Carol Bartz Is A "Lame Duck" And Has "Checked Out" (YHOO)

See Also: DirectTV Bounced From Hulu Bidding INSIDER: Yahoo Has “Work To Do” On Ad-Targeting, Might Acquire Help New Yahoo EIC Pushes Out Front Page Editor Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is out. Last week, a source at the company told us the feeling inside the company was that Bartz hadn’t been day-to-day for a...

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These Execs Are Running Yahoo While They Look For A New CEO (YHOO)

September 6, 2011
These Execs Are Running Yahoo While They Look For A New CEO (YHOO)

Ross Levinsohn and Blake Irving, two of the senior execs running Yahoo while they look for a new CEO. Image: Flickr/Yodel Anecdotal See Also: DirectTV Bounced From Hulu Bidding New Yahoo EIC Pushes Out Front Page Editor IT’S OFFICIAL: Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Is Gone Yahoo just confirmed that the board ousted CEO Carol...

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Video: Learning About Picture And Color Modes On Your DSLR

September 6, 2011
Video: Learning About Picture And Color Modes On Your DSLR

DSLRs are a powerful and popular tool for creating video, but it’s likely that very few users of this fairly new product category have gone deep into its settings. For taking pictures and the occasional video, the defaults are fine, but if you’re interested in putting a little more love into your production, it...

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Apple’s carrier partners get ‘near-final’ build of iOS 5 with speech and Facetime 3G

September 6, 2011
Apple’s carrier partners get ‘near-final’ build of iOS 5 with speech and Facetime 3G

Apple’s carrier partners have been seeded a ‘near-final’ build of the iOS 5 software destined for the iPhone 5 when it launches later this year, reports 9to5Mac. The new build has several additional features enabled including Facetime over 3G and the speech-to-text features that we have previously talked about. The carrier partners have been...

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Carol Bartz Confirms Her Own Firing — From Her iPad

September 6, 2011
Carol Bartz Confirms Her Own Firing — From Her iPad

Title says it all. Well, except the fact that Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was apparently fired over the phone. Harsh. This is the note Bartz just sent out to Yahoo employees: To all, I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board. It has...

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Microsoft And Twitter Renew Their Search Deal (MSFT, GOOG)

September 6, 2011
Microsoft And Twitter Renew Their Search Deal (MSFT, GOOG)

Image: Flickr/Coletivo Mambembe See Also: THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Windows Phone Will Have 20% Smartphone Market Share By 2015 If iCloud Runs On Microsoft And Amazon, What The Heck Is Inside That Huge Apple Data Center? Today’s Amazing Video Google Doodle Honors Freddie Mercury Microsoft and Twitter have renewed the contract that will let Bing...

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Grub With Us announces new charity meal for hungry entrepreneurs

September 6, 2011

Social Meals startup Grub With Us has just anounced a new charity meal with investor Howard Hartnebaum of August Capital at the restaurant Tamarine, in Palo Alto on Monday Sept. 26. The restaurant is a favorite with the venture crowd, and the charity meal is a great opportunity for a few plucky founders to...

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Carol Bartz no longer CEO of Yahoo. CFO Tim Morse sitting as interim

September 6, 2011

It’s been a long, bumpy road for Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz. Earning no friends along her journey to bring definition and success back to Yahoo, the 63 year-old leader has finally hit the end of her days at the company, according to All Things Digital. Bartz joined Yahoo in January of 2009, after a long...

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Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Is Gone — Stock Up 6% After Hours (YHOO)

September 6, 2011
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Is Gone — Stock Up 6% After Hours (YHOO)

Image: AP See Also: DirectTV Bounced From Hulu Bidding INSIDER: Yahoo Has “Work To Do” On Ad-Targeting, Might Acquire Help New Yahoo EIC Pushes Out Front Page Editor Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz is out, reports Kara Swisher at AllThingsD. Tim Morse, the chief financial officer, will be interim CEO while the board looks for...

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk Had An Elaborate Burning Man Setup That Cost Thousands

September 6, 2011
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Had An Elaborate Burning Man Setup That Cost Thousands

This year, they burned an entire scupture, not just a man. Image: tracyshaun via Flickr See Also: 25 And Under: 20 Hot Young Stars In New York Tech If You Are The First Employee At A Startup, You Are “Getting Screwed” This Startup Wants To Be The Airbnb Of Car Rentals San Franciscans of...

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