Friday, October 9th, 2009
?Yahoo: Seth Dallaire, former Senior Director of MSN Advertising Sales at Microsoft , will become VP, Mid Market Sales at Yahoo . He’ll be in charge of selling display advertising to mid-market advertisers and agencies.
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Shares of Yahoo Inc. soared Thursday after an analyst upgraded the stock based on his expectations of an advertising recovery and positive longer-term outlook for the Internet search giant.
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Internet pioneer Yahoo plans to open an East Coast regional data center near Buffalo. Gov. David Paterson said Tuesday that the center is to begin operating in January 2011. He said it will create about 125 jobs and construction could begin this fall.
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday it has named Penny Baldwin as senior vice president of global integrated marketing and brand management, a new position.
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’ and ‘What job shall I take?’We are very early in the total information we have within Google.
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
A Barclays analyst upgraded Yahoo Inc. Monday saying the Internet company is in a better position now than at any point in the past few years to benefit from a rebound in advertising.
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Posted in Yahoo | Comments Off on Ahead of the Bell: Yahoo upgraded (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Friday, May 29th, 2009
Yesterday, BoomTown broke the news that Yahoo’s SVP North American Audience Jeff Dossett was leaving the Internet company after a very short stint, because of personal issues. But, I also noted sources said he was likely to quickly land at a start-up and he has.
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Posted in Yahoo | Comments Off on Departing Yahoo Media Exec Dossett to AdventureLink as CEO (AllThingsD Online via Yahoo! Finance)
Monday, May 18th, 2009
Acacia Research Corp., which buys and licenses patents, Monday said it had won a $6.6 million judgment against Yahoo Inc. for infringement on an online advertising patent.
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
When she reorganized the Yahoo management ranks three weeks ago, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz left some glaring empty spaces in her management chart, including for a chief financial officer, the top international exec and a new post for some kind of customer advocacy czar.
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
A federal appeals Frontier court has rejected Yahoo Inc.’s bid to move a trademark lawsuit filed by American Airlines from Texas to Yahoo’s home turf of Northern California.
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Posted in Yahoo | Comments Off on Court rejects Yahoo bid to move trademark case (AP via Yahoo! Finance)