Marissa Mayer's First Live Interview (Which ATD Had to Virtually Sneak Into):...
Tonight, new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gave her first public interview since becoming the leader of the troubled Silicon Valley Internet giant. Not to cranky me, of course, but to the much more amenable...
View Article23andMe Raises $50 Million in New Funding, Adding Yuri Milner as Investor
Personal genomics company 23andMe said it has raised more than $50 million in a new funding round, a near doubling of its investments so far. 23andMe has already raised over about $68 million since it...
View ArticleFandango Says 2012 Ticket Sales Highest Ever
After it set a single-day ticket sales record on Christmas Day, Fandango said that 2012 was the best performing year in its 12-year history for ticket sales, as well as for traffic and app download...
View ArticleAnne Wojcicki of 23andMe on One Million-DNA March and More (Video)
Last week, I paid a visit to the Mountain View, Calif., offices of personal genomics company 23andMe, which just raised more than $50 million in a new funding round, to add to the $68 million it has...
View ArticleOut-Trending the Trendmakers: NewsWhip Says It Defeats Twitter and Facebook's...
Yes, it’s possible to stay on top of the news entirely from within Twitter and Facebook … but it takes work. Following the right number of people (so as not to get overwhelmed) posting about a broad...
View ArticleLivingSocial Hack Update: Investigation Ongoing, While Emails Out to 50...
After a massive breach of its computer systems yesterday, LivingSocial has sent out emails to all of the 50 million customers impacted, a company spokesman said, and is now working with law...
View ArticleChecking Into Foursquare? Yahoo's CFO Talks About Next Mobile M&A --...
I always like to listen to the dulcet tones of Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman, especially when he talks about what’s next for Yahoo. That’s because the last time he appeared at an investor conference, the...
View ArticleFISA Request Data Could Soon Be Public, With Google Also in Talks With U.S....
After AllThingsD.com reported earlier today that Facebook had been in advanced discussions with the federal government to allow it to disclose requests under national security laws, including the...
View ArticleVenezuela Offers Snowden Asylum
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden — whom the U.S. government is trying to arrest for revealing classified information about its spying programs — has been offered asylum by...
View ArticleWhen I Say Jump … Marissa Mayer Gives Yahoo Employees Up Fitness Bands
It’s clear that CEO Marissa Mayer has been trying to get the employees of Yahoo to start moving faster to innovate. And now, she is also doing it quite literally, apparently giving its more than...
View ArticleAOL Turns Moviefone Over to BermanBraun for Reboot
After buying it in 1999 — at the height of the Web 1.0 bubble — for upwards of $500 million in stock, AOL has pretty much let Moviefone languish ever since. As others — from a myriad of entertainment...
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