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| Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
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 Yahoo's Bartz: Safe Choice, Not Necessarily The Right OneWe're going to withhold judgment on Yahoo's new CEO Carol Bartz until we've heard her plan for the company. Carol's clearly talented and experienced enough that she might put a good plan together. With no Internet or consumer experience, she might also preside over the finishing touches of Yahoo's self-destruction. We'll just have to wait and see. But based on everything we've heard, Carol probably has what it takes to get the job done--as long as she is obsessed with getting it right. One of the criticisms we have heard of Carol is that at Autodesk she was so focused on her outside board slots that she only worked a couple days a week. That won't do it here, especially because she's going to have one heck of a learning curve. So we certainly hope she gives fixing Yahoo her full attention. Read >  Carol Bartz To Become Yahoo CEOSue Decker Quits YahooYahoo-Microsoft Search Deal Now Imminent | |
| The Complete Biggest Losers! The global economic collapse has been rough on everyone. But it's been really rough on these guys. And, so, without further ado, here's The Complete Biggest Losers, our list of global moguls creamed by the crash. There are 64 of them, so grab your coffee, start clicking, and watch the wealth evaporate. Read > | |
| Ten Reasons To Love Obama's FCC Chair Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson loves President-Elect Obama's choice to chair the FCC, Julius Genachowski. In a post titled, "This News Made Me Smile A Mile Wide," Fred lists 10 reasons why. Read > | |
| For The First Time, Internet Tops Newspapers As News Source For the first time since the Pew Research Center's been keeping track, it found more people, who said they relied on the Internet for their national and international news than people who look for it in newspapers first. Read > | |
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Microsoft (MSFT) made Windows 7 Beta publically available a few days ago, and already eager geeks are downloading the software, playing with it a little, and putting their reviews up on the Internet. Read > Hulu: Sorry About Deleting Those 'Sunny' Episodes Like all online video sites, Hulu is at the mercy of its content partners: If someone yanks Hulu's Web rights to a show, Hulu has to pull the show. The best Hulu can do is offer a warning so that it's not a complete surprise to its viewers. Read > Court Upholds 'Amazon Tax', Sales Tax Coming To E-Commerce? Bad news for Amazon (AMZN), and all of e-commerce: The New York Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the "Amazon tax." Read > Tesla Unveils New Model: Same Car, More Expensive! Electric car start-up Tesla is stealing a page from the major automakers. No, it's not getting a bailout, though it could use one. Read > Laid Off MySpace Employees Read About Ex-Managers Great Mood On MySpace Now that we all follow each other on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and god-knows-how-many more, you'd think we'd know by now to be sensitive to how our status messages and declarations of "mood" can affect others. Or, at the very least, you'd expect MySpace (NWS) executives to have figured it out. Read > | |
| Analyst: PS3 Price Drop To $300 Coming In AprilMicrosoft's Cheap-Looking-On-Purpose Wall Street Journal InsertStanford Dumps $100 Million Into Cleantech InstituteTheKnot Buys Breastfeeding.com | |
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