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Yahoo News Development Moved To Taiwan, Says Report

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The product development team behind Yahoo's news site, Yahoo News , has reportedly been moved to Taiwan , AllThingsD reported this morning. Yahoo's editorial team remains in Santa Monica. The move is the second one for product development at Yahoo News, which was previously located at Yahoo's media operations in Santa Monica.

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UX Design: The GOOD, BAD and UGLY

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Thursday, June 7, 2012 -- UX Design: The GOOD, BAD and UGLY > 5 Guests. Tech Cofounder Dating LA presents: The Top 5 UX (user experience)Designers in LA all in one room for an interactive event: Yahoo!, Chill,docstoc, BetterWorks and eHarmony. See [link] (more)

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Disney Names Playdom's Pleasants, Yahoo's Pitaro As Co-Presidents

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Burbank-based Walt Disney said this weekend that it has promoted John Pleasants, the former CEO of Playdom , as co-President of its Disney Interactive Media Group , along with James Pitaro, most recently of Yahoo! Pitaro was most recently Vice President and head of Media for Yahoo! Pleasants and Pitaro replace Steve Wadsworth.

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Slickdeals Taps OpenX, Twitter Vets For Board

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Prior to becoming CEO of OpenX, Cadogan was Senior Vice President of Global Advertising Marketplaces at Yahoo! Meyers has ramping up Slickdeals , looking to leverage a site with loyal users and lots of traffic but not focus on design, and adapting it to the mobile and social generation. READ MORE>>.

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San Gabriel Valley: Bitcoin Creator Not The Only Inventor In Town

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Paid search advertising , invented at Goto.com --a spinout of Idealab--which was later acquired by Yahoo for $1.63 billion and became Yahoo Search Marketing. The first human powered aircraft , the Gossamer Albatross, designed by Paul MacCready (founder of Monrovia-based Aerovironment).

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Electric vehicle charging software EV Connect raises $12 million

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EV Connect’s cloud-based platform has an open standard architecture that is designed to be hardware agnostic. Clients include Yahoo!, EV Connect , the Los Angeles-based company that sells software to manage electric vehicle charging, has raised $12 million in a Series B round led by investors Mitsui & Co.

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OpenX Debuts New Ad Traffic Monitoring Product

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OpenX said the new product was designed by a team with experience from Yahoo!, The new system is aimed at filtering out automated, non-human Internet ad traffic, so that advertisers do not have to pay for impressions and clicks which are generated by software. Overture and Shopzilla. READ MORE>>.

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