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Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: Mild-mannered Jerry Yang transforms into confident CEO warrior

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Chief Yahoo has some breathing room -- for now Commentary: Mild-mannered Yang is more confident than ever as CEO By Therese Poletti, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Jerry Yang sounded downright confident on the...

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A Tale of Two Uninvited Bids

nytimes.com Jul 21, 2008 868 related

Yahoo is one of the best-known Internet properties, and Anheuser-Busch is an icon of the beer business. Both companies were the targets of unsolicited takeover bids. In each case, there was an attempt to remove the target...

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Appirio: Sequoia Capital Invests in Appirio to Accelerate the Adoption of On-Demand

marketwire.com Jul 21, 2008 1 related

SAN MATEO, CA (MARKET WIRE) Appirio (www.appirio.com), the leader in delivering products and professional services that help businesses accelerate their adoption of on-demand solutions, today announced it has secured Series B...

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Sequoia Capital Invests in Appirio to Accelerate the Adoption of On-Demand

tmcnet.com Jul 21, 2008 3 related

SAN MATEO, CA, July 21 / MARKET WIRE/ -- Appirio, founded in 2006, has a proven track record of delivering both products and professional services using Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies...

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TokBox Appoints Software Expert and Technology Veteran Nick Triantos As CEO

redorbit.com Jul 17, 2008 3 related

SAN FRANCISCO, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- TokBox, a first-of-its-kind web- based video communication product that makes it effortless for anyone to make a video call for free, today announced the appointment of Nick Triantos to...

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Yahoo's current board versus Icahn's challengers

ibtimes.com Jul 14, 2008 26 related

Carl Icahn moved ahead with his attempt to overthrow Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors by submitting his final list of candidates Monday. The nominees remain the same as those he first provided in May, except the list has been...

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Yahoo's current board versus Icahn's challengers (AP)

yahoo.com Jul 14, 2008 10 related

Carl Icahn moved ahead with his attempt to overthrow Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors by submitting his final list of candidates Monday. The nominees remain the same as those he first provided in May, except the list has been...

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Yahoo to MS: Drop the nudnik, maybe we do a deal

news.com.com Jul 13, 2008 406 related

The headlines this evening report yet another Yahoo rejection of an offer to sell its search business to Microsoft. Consider the following: Yahoo!'s Board points out that a transaction to acquire the whole company would be much...

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Yahoo! built on Acquisitions

ru.wordpress.com Jul 12, 2008 1 related

Yahoo! was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in January of 1994 and incorporated on March 1, 1995. Yahoo provides a range of products and services including a web portal, a search...

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Challenge Games Secures $4.5 Million Financing from Sequoia Capital

earthtimes.org Jul 10, 2008 5 related

AUSTIN, Texas - (Business Wire) Challenge Online Games™, Inc. (Challenge Games), developer of the popular Duels™ online fantasy game, today announced it has secured $4.5 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital, which...

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