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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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