Alibaba.com’s CEO And COO Resign Over Fraud

Feb 21, 2011 1 Comment

A huge executive shake-up at Yahoo-linked Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.com: CEO David Wei and COO Elvis Lee have both resigned, after an internal investigation determined that there had been widespread fraud at the site facilitated by some employees… Tweet This Post

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Yahoo Engineer Complains About Lack Of Innovation At Yahoo

Feb 21, 2011 No Comments

Right now Yahoo engineer Jeremy Johnstone is my hero. Frustrated with with Flickr’s lack of HTML5 support on the web, Johnstone — whose position is currently “Technical Yahoo!” on the Yahoo For Good team — has decided to take his employer to task, where else? In his Flickr steam… Tweet This Post

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Google Unveils Delicious Bookmark Importer

Feb 17, 2011 No Comments

Google has just rolled out a convenient new tool for importing your Delicious bookmarks to Google Bookmarks.The simple importer takes your Delicious login credentials (or lets you use a one-click OAuth button) and imports all your bookmarks, preserving labels or tags… Tweet This Post

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Disney Interactive Promises Profitability In 2013

Feb 17, 2011 No Comments

The new chiefs at struggling Disney (NYSE: DIS) Interactive Media Group pledged to put the division in the black by 2013 at an investors conference for the conglomerate Thursday in Anaheim, Calif. Making their first public appearance since joining Disney last year, co-president John Pleasants and James Pitaro offered a first look at the many [...]

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Is Yahoo Getting Close to Selling Its Lucrative Yahoo Japan Shares?

Feb 16, 2011 No Comments

Yahoo’s CFO Tim Morse spoke at a Goldman Sachs Investing conference today and was peppered with questions about Yahoo’s Asian assets, which make up a good chunk of the value of its stock price right now… Tweet This Post

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@ MWC: Bartz: Our Secret Sauce Is An Editorial Team That’s Always Watching

Feb 16, 2011 No Comments

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz today said an army of editorial curators, not algorithms, who are “always watching” were the “secret sauce” at Yahoo, as she showed off the company’s digital newsstand, dubbed Livestand, during her keynote at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona… Tweet This Post

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5 Website Features You Can Easily Offload to Reduce Costs

Feb 15, 2011 No Comments

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.The term “offload” or “offloading” in information technology and computer science refers to the transfer of something from your system to an external system… Tweet This Post

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The Morning Lowdown 02.15.2011

Feb 15, 2011 No Comments

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning: » Groupon may be big in the U.S. and Europe—but it can’t seem to get traction in Japan. The daily deals site has also made a series of bad moves lately… Tweet This Post

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Jack Ma Flies Thousands of Miles to Palo Alto, Still Doesn’t Want to See Carol Bartz

Feb 14, 2011 No Comments

Burn! According to sources, Alibaba Group’s CEO Jack Ma is in town and he’s not even paying a courtesy call to his estranged partners at Yahoo. Ma was spotted dining with Taobao CEO Jonathan Luk and other Alibaba executives at Fuki Sushi in Palo Alto last night, and a spokesperson for the company confirmed they [...]

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Video: Calacanis Finds Religion, Claims It’s Time For Quality Over Quantity

Feb 14, 2011 No Comments

Last month at DLD in Munich, in front of top execs from investor Burda, Jason Calacanis offered a fairly staid explanation for the decision to “pivot” Mahalo from “human-powered” search/content factory to an education-centric enterprise… Tweet This Post

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Firm: Bing’s search results are much better than Google’s

Feb 13, 2011 No Comments

New data from a research firm shows Bing’s search results are much better than Google’s. Tweet This Post

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Netflix Surges In Nielsen’s First Video Data In 7 Months

Feb 11, 2011 No Comments

Welcome back, Nielsen, which publicly issued late Friday its first set of online video metrics since June 2010 due to computer glitches that undercounted data for most of last year, the company admitted in November… Tweet This Post

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