ReadWriteWeb:
I'm very pleased to announce that Bernard Lunn has joined ReadWriteWeb full-time as our Chief Operating Officer. Starting today, Bernard will assume responsibility for most of the non-editorial functions of our business - sal (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
When Yahoo's stock hit $12, we said it was ridiculously cheap. Now it's below $9. Given that no one else seems to want to buy and fix this once-great and still amazingly valuable company, we're now offering to do it ourselves (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
We're pleased to be a media sponsor of the Crunchies, TechCrunch's start-up Oscars show in San Francisco in January. We watched jealously from the other coast last year as everyone walked the red carpet. This year, happily, (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Read up on what everyone is saying about who should or inevitibly will be Yahoo's next CEO. Then go vote for your choice or write-in a name in the comments. Writes BoomTown's Kara Swisher: "Obviously, the dream CEO for Yahoo (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
What kind of workplace drove laid-off engineer Jing Wu to allegedly murder his boss and a coworker at Silicon Valley semiconductor firm SiPort Inc?Former Valleywag writer Alaska Miller once worked at a very similar "fabless" (Read More)
Yahoo! News: Top Stories:
Reuters - A man laid off recently from his job in Silicon Valley shot and killed three people, believed to be former co-workers, at an office park on Friday, police in the ailing U.S. technology hub said. (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Looking for leading digital job opportunities? Check out Silicon Alley Insider's job board. Current listings include:Director, Business Development - KabooseMobile Marketing Analyst - eMarketerDirector of Online Ad Sales - RO (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Technology Crossover Ventures, IVP, and Redpoint pumped $250 million into vacation rental roll-up HomeAway at a $1.15 billion valuation, says TechCrunch. The company will presumably use the money to snap up the remaining vaca (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
As tech stocks plummet, more Silicon Valley workers find themselves holding worthless options -- the kind that would allow them to buy company stock at higher prices than they are currently being publicly traded.They're "unde (Read More)
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Network: NBCEpisodes: 98 (hour), five seasonsShow dates:January 23, 1983 — March 8, 1987Show status: Cancelled/endedPerformers include: Dirk Benedict, Melinda Culea, Marla Heasley, George Peppard, Dwight Schultz, Mr. T (Read More)
Venture Capital:
With the Yahoo-AOL deal in limbo, the big story this week was contractions across old media. Time Inc is laying off 600, Cond Nast is eviscerating Portfolio and Men's Vogue, and the Christian Science Monitor is abandoning pr (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook responds through VentureBeat to TechCrunch's suggestion that Facebook has a growing cash problem that just sent CFO Gideon Yu scurrying to investors of last resort Dubai in search of more money.Here's the official st (Read More)