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JULY 30, 2012

Yahoo , which finally has a new CEO, former Googler Marissa Mayer, has brought back one of the most cherished startup institutions: free lunch, at least in Sunnyvale, according to AllthingsD. In the article, AllThingsD said that Ross Levinsohn, who had been serving as interim CEO at Yahoo, is apparently planning to leave the company.

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MARCH 10, 2016

Yahoo said that it added both Brandt and Catherine J. Brandt was the Chief Financial Officer of Broadcom up until its acquisition by Avago in February, and also had been President and CEO of Avanir Pharmaceuticals and CFO of Allergan, and also had served at The Boston Consulting Group, among other positions.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Ross Levinsohn , the former head of Fox Interactive Media, has officially started at Yahoo heading up its Americas Region, according to the company. In a post to Yahoo's users and employees, Levinsohn said today was his "first official day" at Yahoo, calling the opportunity the "greatest opportunity of all in my career".

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APRIL 23, 2009

Internet portal Yahoo is quietly shutting Geocities , the Internet home page portal it acquired in 1999. Yahoo said it is no longer accepting new customers, and will discontinue the service later this year. billion stock-and-option acquisition by Yahoo in 1999. billion stock-and-option acquisition by Yahoo in 1999.

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MAY 18, 2010

Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the user-generated content venture of Richard Rosenblatt, has new competition this afternoon, from Yahoo , after Yahoo announced it would acquire content publishing firm Associated Content. Financial terms of the acquisition of Associated Content were not disclosed.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

According to one of Pasadena-based Metacloud ''s venture capital backers, the acquisition of the cloud services provider by Cisco on Wednesday was an "epic exit". Vice President of Technology Operations at Ticketmaster Entertainment and Steve Curry, the former head of Yahoo''s global storage operations. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Santa Monica-based GoodRx , an online marketplace for prescription drugs, is expanding into online medical visits with the acquisition of online medical services provider HeyDoctor. Financial details of the acquisition of HeyDoctor were not announced. The company is led by co-CEOs Doug Hirsch and Trevor Bezdek. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 1, 2014

The WSJ, citing "people familiar with the matter" said that Rogers will run both Beats Music and iTunes Radio, now that the acquisition is complete. Rogers is no stranger to runnning the music service of a large, public company: he was previously General Manager of Yahoo! beats music apple merger acquisition rogers' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 18, 2018

Levinsohn has deep ties into Southern California's high tech industry, and formerly had been CEO of Yahoo; and is an investor or sits on the boards of such companies as SteelHouse, Wevr, Attn:, Stocktwits, Pluto.TV, MarketShare, and many others. Levinsohn was behind Fox Interactive Media (FIM)'s acquisition of MySpace. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 8, 2014

Delicious was previously owned by Steven Chen and Chad Hurley, the founders of YouTube, who had acquired Delicious from Yahoo back in 2011 via their company, Avos Systems. systems avos youtube software jones michael acquisition merger bookmarking social delicious' READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

said the acquisition will add its presence with an office in Boston. Event Farm counts such clients as Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Lamborghini, WIRED, SpaceX, and NASCAR. Event Farm--which already has offices in Santa Monica and Washington D.C., READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

ShipWorks develops shipping software, which is used by online sellers to manage shipping and sales on such marketplaces as eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, and elsewhere. software shipping marketplace ecommerce acquisition merger shipworks stamps stampscom' READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Irving was most recently CEO of GoDaddy, and also served at Microsoft and Yahoo, and sits on the board of Docusign. Choi is currently VP of Corporate and Business Development at Coinbase, and was previously VP of Corporate Development at LinkedIn, and helped oversee the acquisition of Lynda.com, and also sits on the board of Naspers.

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

Starboard is a well known, activist investor, and is the company which is urging Yahoo to merge with AOL. reald private starboard equity activist investor merger acquisition theater movie content hollywood' In a statement released to the press, REalD said it will "carefully review and consider" the unsolicited bid from Starboard.

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MAY 28, 2013

According to a report from AllThingsD, Yahoo made the $600M to $800M bid for Hulu, depending on the licensing terms for the content acquired with the site. hulu streaming video merger acquisition content hollywood' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Studenmund is an advisor focused on startups, rapid growth, turnaround, and merger and acquisition, and was previously Chief Operating Officer at Overture. Studenmund also serves on the boards of Orbitz, eHarmony, Western Asset, and was on the baord of aQuantive before its acquisition by Microsoft. READ MORE>>. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive.

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MAY 13, 2013

And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! But the press (and I suspect many of the senior execs of these companies) don’t really explore the corrosive downside of these acquisition. If I don’t commit to millions of dollars of acquisitions I will … die? Does Yahoo! And who cares, right?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Leads360 is backed by Rustic Canyon Partners, and is headed by Dan Morefield, who was CIO of Overture Services before its acquisition by Yahoo. Business details of the integration were not announced. Leads360 was founded by Jeff Solomon. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The firm's former CEO, former Yahoo VP Jeff Dossett, shows on his LinkedIn profile that he departed the firm sometime this month. Tags: adventurelink shutdown exit merger acquisition foreclosure adventure travel booking. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 20, 2020

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Last week displayed the best of LA last week for a gala event of all of Upfront’s portfolio companies + the CEOs of many of LA’s top technology companies + 75 VC firms from LA, SF, NY & Boston + 25 LP Funds + the Chairman of Yahoo! Maynard Webb) and the Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti.

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MAY 17, 2018

In a related move, the company said it has named Doug Leeds, former CEO of IAC Publishing, as its CEO; Leeds was most recently a Executive in Residence at August Capital, and also served at Yahoo and Overture, among other companies. EAT Club is headquartered in Redwood City. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 1, 2009

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The firm's executives included Paul Ryan and Tom Lamb, both previously executives at Overture Services before it was acquired by Yahoo. Tags: acquisition merger directory online doneright right done. READ MORE>>. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Hirsch was an early employee at Yahoo, and also served as a Vice President at Facebook. Los Angeles-based DailyStrength, an online health-related social networking site, has been acquired by HSW International, Inc., a developer of Internet businesses. READ MORE>>

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JULY 22, 2011

So far, Hulu apparently has been shopped to Yahoo, AT&T, Microsoft, and Google. In the latest rumor swirling around Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu , a number of reports last night say that Apple Computer is now bidding for the firm. The report came from Bloomberg, which cited "two people with knowledge of the auction".

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AUGUST 18, 2010

All of these companies have been courted for M&A opportunities by existing public companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, Research in Motion, Nokia to be purchased. Tags: insights opinions venture capital angel investment exit merger acquisition. However (More.).

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JULY 1, 2011

and Yahoo Inc. A report Friday from the Los Angeles Times says that Google is in preliminary talks to buy Los Angeles-based Hulu. According to the LA Times--citing "people familiar with the situtation"--Hulu has also been shopped to Microsoft Corp. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

We spoke to CEO Brian Nickerson --an Internet veteran with time at Yahoo and Internet Brands--about the company and its goals. Brian Nickerson: I started out at Yahoo, in their search group. They made a number of significant acquisitions in that space, My co-founders, Sammer and Chris, worked together at Internet Brands.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

Ross Levinsohn , the former head of Yahoo and Fox Interactive Media, has just been appointed CEO of Guggenheim Digital Media , the parent firm of The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Adweek, and other entertainment focused properties.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Yahoo has been an example of a company which expanded in all directions through 53 acquisitions, to the point where most customers were confused, and it was overtaken by Google as your main search engine. You spread yourself so thin across many areas, and don’t achieve any one goal at a breakthrough level.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The acquisition also includes Better Inc's DONE! in 2001, after having previously served at Yahoo! According to Tsavo, Better provides SEO and PPC management to such clients at Paramount, Dreamworks, and Closet World. SEO operations. Padnos started Better Inc.

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APRIL 8, 2010

We covered the following and much more: - FourSquare ( rumors of both an $80m pre money or a $100 million acquisition ). I also agree with Charlie O’Donnell that they won’t see to Yahoo! I was asked if I would pay $80 million. But I’d love to be wrong and see them all make a ton of money. now (or ever).

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JANUARY 24, 2017

If you do a Google search for AAPL, the stock ticker for Apple, the top search results are typically Yahoo Finance, Twitter, Google Finance—and StockTwits, a social media communications platform for Wall Street traders and active retail investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and maybe even Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Equally, the streaming business has got to accelerate content acquisition, focus on customer retention, improve streaming technologies to make it better for users / worse for competitors, and they’ve got to continually improve the UI. I argued ages ago that Yahoo! Imagine if Carol Bartz or the Yahoo! A note for industry.

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