The Apprentice Says &quot;You&#39;re Hired&quot; To Yahoo
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com. Yahoo is hosting the official Web site for the second and third seasons of the reality television program &quot;The Apprentice.
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Microsoft confirmed&#160;a number of high-level executive changes, moves that could be designed to better position the company to digest an acquisition of Yahoo, an analyst said.In addition to a number of executive promotions, Microsoft announced that Bill Veghte, senior vice president of the Online Services and Windows Business Group; Satya Nadella, senior vice president, Search, Portals and Advertising Group; and Brian McAndrews, senior vice president of Microsoft&#39;s Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group, are all taking on new responsibilities in running Microsoft&#39;s online services, including Windows Live, Search, and MSN.Microsoft may be positioning Nadella to take on the responsibility of the technical integration of Yahoo if the acquisition happens, said Rob Helm, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft. &quot;Microsoft is anticipating a shift in its online strategy around the purchase of Yahoo, which means, among other things, that they&#39;re replacing people running the old strategy,&quot; he said.If Nadella is being brought in to integrate Yahoo into Microsoft, he doesn&#39;t have the best track record, said Helm. He was the head of the Microsoft Dynamics unit and was charged with integrating a couple of other acquisitions, including Great Plains. &quot;On his watch, relatively little happened in the way of successful integration,&quot; said Helm. However, Nadella had the post for just a year, so perhaps he didn&#39;t have the opportunity to do more, he said.Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of the Online Services Group, is moving out of a role in Microsoft&#39;s online group. He&#39;ll step down from his position in August, Microsoft said. He plans to stay with the company, but Microsoft did not say in what capacity.Despite these positioning moves, the Yahoo deal is still uncertain, Helm said. &quot;It&#39;s still up in the air, though it seems unlikely that Microsoft would walk away after a bid like this,&quot; he said.Microsoft also said that Andy Lees, who leads marketing for the Server and Tools Marketing and Solutions group, will take over for Pieter Knook as senior vice president of the Mobile Communications Business. Word of Knook&#39;s departure surfaced on Thursday with an announcement from Vodafone that he&#39;d joined the mobile operator.Lees&#39; appointment, as someone with a marketing background, seems to follow a shift in the mobile group toward a focus on consumers, Helm said. Microsoft recently announced plans to buy Danger, a youth-focused mobile software company, and appointed a new marketing executive to target consumers. Pressure from the iPhone, which has done remarkably well in a very brief time, could be driving the shift in strategy for the mobile group at Microsoft, Helm said.Other announcements from Microsoft include news that Brad Brooks will take over for Michael Sievert, who is leaving the company, as corporate vice president of Windows Consumer Product Marketing. Steve Guggenheimer will become corporate vice president of the Original Equipment Manufacturer Division, moving on from a marketing position with Microsoft&#39;s Application Platform effort.
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Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang sent a message to employees on Wednesday, assuring them the firm's leaders are exploring ways to avoid a takeover by software giant Microsoft.
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Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday named Lloyd Braun, a former chairman of Walt Disney Co.&#39;s (DIS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) ABC Entertainment Television Group, as
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YouTube Hires Yahoo&#8217;s Yu as New CFO YouTube has taken a step in the serious direction of fortifying its management team and monetization efforts with the recruitment of Gideo Yu, Yahoo&#8217;s Treasurer. Yu is now the Chief Financial Officer at YouTube. Analysts are predicting that the move marks what may eventually add up to an IPO or [...]
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Yahoo Inc.'s Jerry Yang, newly named as chief executive, was found wanting on Wednesday by investors who sought quicker answers on how the Web media company would combat weak advertising growth.
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Yahoo Inc.  on Monday  tapped co-founder Jerry Yang to replace Chief Executive Terry  Semel, bowing to investor pressure as the Internet media  company has failed to keep up with rival Google Inc. .
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Real estate mogul Donald Trump hired  another "apprentice" on Thursday, offering West Point graduate  and software executive Kelly Perdew a six-figure salary job in  the culmination of the fall season reality show "The  Apprentice."
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Google has made its first official comments on&#160;Microsoft&#39;s proposed acquisition of Yahoo&#160;saying that the deal raises &quot;troubling questions&quot; and that the underlying principles of the Internet stand to be tested by the proposed deal.The statement refers several times to Microsoft&#39;s past regulatory transgressions and indicates that Google could be preparing to fight the deal -- if it is accepted by Yahoo -- by pushing regulators to disallow it.&quot;Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC?,&quot; asked David Drummond, senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer at Google in a statement posted on the corporate blog on Sunday.Drummond also asks if an acquisition could allow Microsoft to &quot;extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet?&quot; and to &quot; take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors&#39; email, IM, and web-based services?&quot;A report late Sunday in the online edition of The Wall Street Journal said Google CEO Eric Schmidt called Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang on Friday to offer help to the rival in thwarting the bid. The newspaper, which quoted people familiar with the matter, didn&#39;t provide details of the telephone call.Google has something to fear from a combined Microsoft and Yahoo. The proposed deal, which was announced on Friday and has Microsoft offering $44.6 billion for Yahoo, would combine the number two and three search engines. The two companies are also leaders in the areas of Web mail and instant messaging so a merger would provide stronger competition for Google in those areas.But Google has a massive lead in search and the deal wouldn&#39;t necessarily lead to an improvement in search results, so Microsoft and Yahoo would still face a challenge to surpass Google&#39;s current dominance in this part of the market.The Google statement got a quick response from Microsoft, which said a combination of the two companies would benefit Internet users by establishing a stronger number two competitor to Google.&quot;The alternative scenarios only lead to less competition on the Internet,&quot; said Microsoft&#39;s top-lawyer, General Counsel Brad Smith, in a statement.&quot;Microsoft is committed to openness, innovation, and the protection of privacy on the Internet. We believe that the combination of Microsoft and Yahoo! will advance these goals,&quot; Smith said.A merged company would still only account for about 30 percent of the search queries run in the U.S. and about 10 percent in Europe, he said.
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Donald Trump revamps his hit show The Apprentice so it becomes a clash between graduates and non-graduates.
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With so many jobs pruned from corporate payrolls in recent years, interest in the gestalt of being fired -- the hows and whys, the trauma and consequences -- is understandably high. Witness the surprising success of the television series &quot;The Apprentice.&quot;
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Yahoo Inc.'s  Jerry Yang, newly named as chief executive, was found wanting on Wednesday by investors who sought quicker answers on how the Web media company would combat weak advertising growth.
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You ain't digging into my space, Monkeyboy !!!!! Rupert Murdoch is in talks with Yahoo! aimed at fending off the hostile takeover by Microsoft.â¦
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Yahoo Inc.  said on  Monday it is opening up its new advertising system for testing  by newcomers and potential converts from rivals, marking  progress in its long-awaited upgrade.
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A month after signing Stern to a five-year deal, Manhattan-based Sirius said yesterday its new chief executive is Mel Karmazin, the former head of media conglomerate Viacom who was successful
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Blog: Yahoo hires first ever chief compliance and ethics officer
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Move over, Mosaic. Out of the way, Apex. Here comes Magna and Networth, the latest squads to do Donald Trump's bidding on the third go-round of NBC's "The Apprentice." This time, it's about education and experience.