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Ready for the Industrial Internet? GE Announces "Predictivity" Platform, New...
At the recent D: All Things Digital conference earlier this month, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt talked a lot about the savings that could be realized via a massive expansion of the so-called...
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Ready for Your Close-Up, Mr. Systrom: Zuckerberg Touts 15-Second Instagram...
Mark Zuckerberg opened the Instagram event at Facebook’s Silicon Valley HQ today, focusing on the growth of the popular photo-sharing service that he bought last year for a pile of dough and that...
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Exclusive: Microsoft's Xbox Head Don Mattrick Leaving to Take Top Role --...
Don Mattrick, the president of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment unit — which centers on the Xbox and all the software giant’s gaming and entertainment efforts — is leaving the company, said...
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Yahoo's Former GC Callahan Places His Bid With Online Real Estate Marketplace...
Michael Callahan, Yahoo’s former longtime and powerful general counsel, has taken a job as EVP and chief legal officer at Auction.com, one of the top online real estate marketplaces. He oversees...
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Equifax Buys Identity Protection Startup TrustedID for About $30 Million
Data giant Equifax Inc. said it had bought TrustedID, a well-known Silicon Valley identity protection company. While the Atlanta-based company declined to disclose financial terms of the deal, sources...
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Aiming for "Functional Coherence," Mulling a Different P&L and With Advice...
According to numerous sources close to the situation, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is poised to unveil his plan to drastically restructure the tech giant this week. And, while timing might change,...
View ArticleIt's On: Microsoft Management and Unit Reorg Will Be Announced Tomorrow
As AllThingsD reported earlier this week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s reorg of the tech giant will take place tomorrow, according to numerous sources close to the situation. Top execs who have been...
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On CEO's First Anniversary, Yahoos Get to "ThxMarissa!" (Best Internal Memo I...
As many readers know, I am not one to hold back a Yahoo internal memo. So, I am glad I can finally publish this one, an effort by the events team at the Silicon Valley Internet giant to organize a...
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Exclusive: Yahoo Loses Its Media Head, as Mickie Rosen Ankles From Company
According to sources, Yahoo’s media head Mickie Rosen is leaving the Silicon Valley Internet giant. Rosen, who reported to COO Henrique De Castro, is one of the highest-ranking execs to depart the...
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"Luminary" Access Site IfOnly Officially Launches With $3M in Funding From...
IfOnly, a charitable marketplace for experiences with the top “luminaries” in sports, cooking and entertainment, is officially launching its site after collecting $3 million in funding from a group...
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The Color Purple: Yahoo Tries to Excite Consumers With Month-Long New Logo...
In yet another flashy PR effort under Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, the company’s marketing arm has ginned up an effort to get consumers talking about a new logo it plans on launching in a month and had...
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AOL Hires Associated Content's Luke Beatty in Key Strategy Role
Luke Beatty — the well-known entrepreneur who created Associated Content and later sold it to Yahoo for $90 million — will be taking a key job at AOL as its head of strategic partnerships. It will be...
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Good Eggs Nabs $8.5 Million from Sequoia and Others for Local Farm-to-Fridge...
Good Eggs, the local farm-to-fridge local grocery delivery startup, has nabbed $8.5 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, which it will use to expand its sustainable food service to more cities....
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In a Big Mobile Move, Pivotal Buys Xtreme Labs for $65 Million in Cash
In a bid to up its mobile development expertise, the Web-focused software company Pivotal has made its first acquisition: Xtreme Labs. San Mateo, Calif.-based Pivotal, which started its life as a...
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Meet the New Mobile LinkedIn: The Professional Network Disguised as a...
How does a company shed its image as a stodgy, static place for business types? This has been LinkedIn’s perennial challenge. The self-proclaimed “professional network” has long been seen as a landing...
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Explaining What It's Going to Do With All That Dough, Pinterest Unveils Stats...
Pinterest confirmed an earlier report by AllThingsD that it had raised $225 million more from investors at a valuation of $3.8 billion. This Series E round will bring the total funding to $564 million...
View ArticleSold Is Sold to Dropbox (Yes, I Just Wrote That)
Dropbox today has bought e-commerce middleman for consumers Sold, according to a post on Sold’s site. The service will no longer be accepting items, the Boston-based startup said. Terms of the deal...
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Chegg Set to Go Public Tomorrow in Next Post-Twitter Tech IPO
Call it the Twitter effect — Silicon Valley will see another IPO of a consumer-focused online effort tomorrow, when Chegg is set to go public. Many people familiar with the situation said the Santa...
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Skype Marketing Exec Steele Heads to Jive in Top Strategy and Marketing Role
Elisa Steele, who has recently had top marketing jobs at Skype and Yahoo, is joining Jive Software as its EVP of strategy and also as CMO. Steele was recently moved to the job of corporate VP and CMO...
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Clinging to Outlook, Only 25 Percent of Yahoo Employees Willing to Eat Mail...
As most know, I love a good internal memo from inside Yahoo and here’s a doozy related to a rather controversial topic of late: How badly the new version of Yahoo Mail has been received by consumers....
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Grokker Gets $5.5 Million to Build Out Expert Video Network -- Here's Founder...
Last week, I talked to Lorna Borenstein, the former eBay and Yahoo exec, who has just launched a video network aimed at consumer interests using “experts,” called Grokker. She’s recently gotten about...
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Gravity's Amit Kapur Talks About the State of the "Interest Graph" (Video)
A few weeks ago, I had a nice chitchat with Amit Kapur, the co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Gravity, the startup that is aimed at creating a digital concept known as an “interest graph.” The...
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Kick the Can -- Yahoo Mail Is a Consumer Disaster, but Company's Response Is...
On Friday, November 8, Jeff Bonforte, the well-regarded techie who is now in charge of Yahoo Mail and all its communications products after the Silicon Valley Internet giant bought his startup Xobni,...
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Exclusive: Foursquare Raises a $35 Million Round and Adds DFJ's Schuler to...
Foursquare, the iconic social location service, has raised $35 million in a Series D round, led by DFJ Growth and the Capital Group’s Smallcap World Fund. The company confirmed the raise to me and...
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As AllThingsD Draws to a Close, Here Are Some Staff Highlights -- Part One:...
On Dec. 31, at the stroke of midnight, All Things Digital will be no more. Of course, the archives of what we have written since April of 2007 — close to 38,000 posts — will remain in the digital...
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