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Yahoo Taps Pepperdine Prof As Chief Product Officer

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Online search portal Yahoo said yesterday that it has named Blake Irving , most recently a professor at the Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management in Malibu, as its Chief Product Officer, heading up the company's product strategy and direction. Tags: yahoo blake irving professor pepperdine executive.

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LegalZoom Adds Former Yahoo President Decker To Board

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Decker, the former President of Yahoo!, Decker was president of Yahoo from 2007 to 2009, and served as CFO of Yahoo from 2000 to 2007. Tags: legalzoom legal documents executive susan decker yahoo. Los Angeles-based LegalZoom.com , the provider of online legal documents, said today that it has added Susan L.

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Acacia Research Gets $12.4M Win Against Yahoo

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Newport Beach-based patent licensing firm Acacia Research Corporation has scored a major patent lawsuit win, this time against Yahoo! , in damages, which were awarded in May of 2009, $4.5M Acacia also said that it has been awarded a royalty rate on all Yahoo IMVironment sales of 23%. the firm announced this morning. in interest.

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Is Ken Goldman New Yahoo CFO Its Messiah?

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22 replacing CFO Tim Morse, once acting CEO, hired in 2009 by then CEO Carol Bartz. Goldman will be responsible for Yahoo!’s I look forward to working with Marissa and the rest of the executive team as we define Yahoo!’s The post Is Ken Goldman New Yahoo CFO Its Messiah? Ken Goldman begins work on Oct. s future.”.

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TrueCar Names CMO

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Automoti.com was sold to Hertz in 2009. Daum has also served at Overture Services/Yahoo, and also was at American Express. Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the publisher of real-time automotive pricing information headed by Scott Painter, said yesterday afternoon that it has appointed Todd Daum as Chief Marketing Officer.

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Passenger Expands Board

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The firm said Studenmund also has served as PayMyBills.com and First Interstate Bank, in addition to her time at Overture Services and Yahoo. In conjunction with the board appointment, Passenger said it closed its 2009 fiscal year with 37 percent revenue growth, although it did not release financials. READ MORE>>.

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AdventureLink Being Sold, In Foreclosure

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The firm had raised funding back in 2009, raising somewhere around $3.72M, based on announcements and regulatory filings. The firm's former CEO, former Yahoo VP Jeff Dossett, shows on his LinkedIn profile that he departed the firm sometime this month. READ MORE>>.

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