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| Monday, March 2, 2009 |
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 Can We Have A Carol Bartz For eBay, Please?New Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is already shaking up the place. She's fired up the troops. She's fired up the media. She's whacked hideous bureaucracy. She's emphasized the need to make tough decisions quickly. She's focused on improving the product. It's not surprising, therefore, that the stock has perked up. And then there's eBay. When CEO John Donahoe took over last year, there was a brief flash of hope that the reign of neglect and boneheaded acquisitions that characterized the last several years of Meg Whitman's era would be undone and that the company would quickly refocus on what it used to do well (commerce). No such luck. Read > Surprise! Yahoo Outperforming GoogleYahoo Paid Bankers $79 Million For Blowing Microsoft Deal | |
| Marissa Mayer Denies Plans To Quit Google, Friends Less Sure It seems Marissa's staying at Google--at least for now. In the meantime, the NYT says she's frustrated with her reputation for just being beautiful, smart, rich, successful, fashionable, and friendly. She's also a jock! Read > | |
| Sumner Redstone Reaches Deal With Lenders To Repay Debt Sumner Redstone's holding company National Amusements has finally reached a deal with his lenders to repay the $1.6 billion worth of debt that prompted speculation this fall that Redstone would be forced to sell Viacom or CBS. Read > | |
| Why Web Ads Need To Be More Like TV Commercials We say Web publishers aren't going to get anywhere until they move their premium inventory into units beyond the banner. Read > | |
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Slide founder Max Levchin -- the guy who sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion -- stopped by SAI world headquarters the other day. Max told his three favorite startups aren't based in Silicon Valley or even the US. They're Japanese. Read > What To Do If Your Startup Is About To Fail A lot of CEOs with less than 12 months of capital left have been asking me for advice about what to do, given the massive economic turmoil we're facing. I thought I would take the time put these various conversations into one email to help those who are "up against it," as we say in Brooklyn. Read > IBM: We're Still Committed To Virtual Worlds We wondered if the departure of IBM's "Metaverse Evangelist" means the company is scaling back its interest in virtual worlds and Second Life. We haven't heard much from the group in months, which only added to our speculation. IBM reps finally got back to us, and they let us know they're still in there. Read > Hearst Building A Kindle For Magazines Amazon's Kindle e-book reader is pretty good for reading books, but lousy for magazines. So Hearst is building its own, bigger wireless e-reader, according to Fortune. Wow! Read > Peter Chernin To Replace Steve Jobs At Apple? Please According to Apple's board at the company's annual meeting, "nothing has changed" with regards to CEO Steve Jobs' situation, meaning Jobs is still scheduled to come back from medical leave at the end of June. But what if he doesn't? Someone will need to run Apple. Read > | |
| And The Winner For Biggest Tech Bomb Goes To... Windows VistaDell Psyched For Windows 7, HP Blase?The Bloomberg Terminal Stands On The PrecipiceAmazon Caves In To Publishers On Kindle Robot Voice | |
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