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Work crept into her life, until life disappeared
Erin Callan was the face of Lehman Brothers in 2008 as it battled insolvency rumors. Fresh, pretty, smart and confidently articulate, she worked feverishly to try to talk nervous investors out of jumping ship. But when the company imploded in 2008,...
Tags: Google Inc., Mark Zuckerberg, New York City, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., The New York Times
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You think your workplace is bad
Let's say the CEO of your company is retiring, but he's going to keep an office at headquarters and the services of the same secretary as the new guy. Awkward! Or how about working at a company where the boss just decided you can no longer work from...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Vatican City, Employees, Christianity, Benedict XVI
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Yahoo's ban on working from home prompts criticism
It didn't take long for the talk at this week's national work-life conference in Baltimore to turn to Yahoo Inc. The Internet company's new ban on employees working from home has proved wildly unpopular with working mothers who had expected more...
Tags: Business Enterprises, Business, Employees, Employment, Inner Harbor
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Yahoo's rise in Asia offsets risk from Tumblr bet
ReutersSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging service Tumblr will be a test of her ability to revive the aging Web portal. Luckily for her, her performance may be graded generously. Mayer faces...Tags: Customs and Tradition, Yahoo! Inc., China, Facebook, Online Advertising
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Yahoo buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion, vows not to screw it up
ReutersSAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will buy blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, giving the Internet pioneer a much-needed social media platform to reach a younger generation of users and breathe new life into its ailing brand. The...Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Facebook, Marketing, Media Industry, Corporate Officers
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RPT-FACTBOX-Yahoo's acquisitions: from Geocities to Tumblr
Reuters(Repeats with no change to text) SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc announced on Monday it would shell out $1.1 billion to buy blogging service Tumblr, in a bid to revitalize its brand and attract a younger generation of users. Yahoo has...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Yahoo! Inc., China, Startups, Online Advertising
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Yahoo's challenge to be building Tumblr's advertising business
SAN FRANCISCO — To punctuate his company's $1.1-billion purchase by Yahoo Inc., Tumblr co-founder and Chief Executive David Karp let loose in a blog post with a celebratory expletive. It was classic Karp, a 26-year-old high school dropout who...
Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Yahoo! Inc., New York City, Online Advertising, Facebook
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Tumblr users take to blogs to express fear over 'Yahoo takeover'
Many Tumblr users are already up in arms over worries that their beloved blogging service could lose its hip edge under Yahoo's control. The blogging website was filled with rants after Yahoo announced on Monday it was acquiring Tumblr for $1.1 billion....
Tags: Networking, Culture, Advertising, Social Sciences, Strawberries
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PRESS DIGEST-New York Times business news - May 21
ReutersMay 21 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. * Yahoo's $1.1 billion proposed acquisition of Tumblr is a huge coup for the young...Tags: Hulu, Mutual Funds, Japan, China, European Union
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Yahoo offers to buy Tumblr for $1.1B cash
Washington TimesYahoo's board of directors approved an offer to buy the ailing Tumblr company for $1.1 billion in cash. Tumblr has yet to agree to the deal, various media reported. But the acquisition could be made official as early as Monday, the San Francisco...Tags: Google Inc., Google+, New York City, Washington, DC, Twitter, Inc.
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Yahoo confirms $1.1 billion deal to buy Tumblr blogging service
San Jose Mercury NewsYahoo Inc. confirmed Monday that it will pay $1.1 billion for the popular blogging service Tumblr, in a bold but risky move that CEO Marissa Mayer called a "game-changer" aimed at adding new and younger users to Yahoo's Web audience. "On many levels,...Tags: Google Inc., Computer Networking and Internet, Yahoo! Inc., Advertising, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Is Yahoo's billion-dollar bet on synergy worth it?
When Google went public in 2004 for $85 a share, I wrote a column questioning such a high valuation for a company built on a math equation. Wasn't it inevitable that someone would come along with a better search algorithm? Google closed Monday at $908....
Tags: Google Inc., Skype, AOL LLC, Microsoft Corporation, Advertising
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