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Yahoo announced the availability of Yahoo!’s Mojito in open source, a ground-breaking JavaScript framework developed by Yahoo! for Web developers. Mojito is one of the Yahoo! Cocktails, our JavaScript-centric presentation platform for connected devices. Ren Waldura, Senior Product Manager for Cocktails said: JavaScript frameworks are nothing new. We know there are already...
According to AllThingsD, Yahoo is gearing up for a significant layoffs starting this week that could number in thousands. The publication suggests that the new Yahoo could be a much small entity with a focus on media and advertising, with the layoff targeted at the product, research and marketing groups. Yahoo’s CEO Scott Thompson has convened top management to outline...
Yahoo’s Board which recently appointed three new independent directors, effective April 5, 2012: John D. Hayes, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of American Express Company; Peter Liguori, former Chief Operating Officer of Discovery Communications, Inc. and former Chairman and President of Entertainment of Fox Broadcasting Network; and Thomas J....
The departures from Yahoo’s research units seems not to be stopping at any extend as the latest to add is company’s VP of computational advertising and chief scientist of the Advertising Product Group, Andrei Broder as well as Jianchang (JC) Mao, who heads advertising sciences. Broder previously was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the CTO of the Institute for Search...
We earlier reported that since from the time Yahoo’s CEO Scott Thompson was appointed for the role, faces a proxy shutdown with hedge fund Third Point. The proxy battle will determine whether Thompson or a slate of dissident directors nominated by Dan Loeb, the hedge fund’s founder gets to chart the company’s course. Loeb has been trying aggressively to name three...
We yesterday reported that since from the time Yahoo’s CEO Scott Thompson was appointed for the role, faces a proxy shutdown with hedge fund Third Point. The proxy battle will determine whether Thompson or a slate of dissident directors nominated by Dan Loeb, the hedge fund’s founder gets to chart the company’s course. With course of time, Yahoo has already named...
“Thompson has got to make his case. And now he has to do it persuasively because there’s another guy who is going to make his case persuasively,” said Lawrence Haverty, a fund manager with GAMCO Investors, which owns Yahoo shares. Just over the course of three months time since Yahoo’s CEO Scott Thompson was appointed for the role, faces a proxy shutdown...
