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Does losing 'Saturday Night Live' clips to Yahoo hurt Hulu?
On the eve of the NewFront digital media presentations next week to advertisers, Yahoo! Chief Executive Marissa Mayer trumpeted a high-profile conquest: NBC's iconic sketch-comedy show "Saturday Night Live." Yahoo landed the exclusive rights to "SNL"...
Tags: Saturday Night Live (tv program), Comcast Corporation, Hulu, News Corp., Entertainment
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Yahoo shares plunge on decline in 1st quarter display-ad sales
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc.'s first-quarter earnings report was seen by some as an early test of Marissa Mayer's ability to turn around the troubled Internet company. Investors now seem to be worried Mayer might not pass that test. Shares that...Tags: Japan, Online Media Industry, Google Inc., Advertising, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements
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Apple and Yahoo said to be in talks for deeper iPhone partnership
SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo is said to be in discussions with Apple to make some of its services more prominent on Apple's iPhone and iPad. The two Silicon Valley companies are talking about getting more sports and news content loaded onto Apple devices...
Tags: Computer Hardware, Microsoft Corporation, Google Inc., The Wall Street Journal, New Products
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Fearing the 'F' Word: Are you now or have you ever been a 'feminist?'
You know, I was going to offer up a very calm, middle-of-the-road argument saying that it’s perfectly fine if some women — women in positions of power, no less — seem to be running like scalded cats from the word “feminist”...Tags: Career and Workplace, Science and Technology, Justice and Rights, Labor Legislation, Civil Rights
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Nick D'Aloisio, 17, suddenly rich, famous after Yahoo buys Summly
SAN FRANCISCO -- Meet Nick D'Aloisio, the 17-year-old British entrepreneur sensation who just sold his popular news-reading app to Yahoo Inc. for close to $30 million, instantly becoming one of the world's youngest self-made technology millionaires. It'...
Tags: Ashton Kutcher, Telecommunication Service, Media Industry, Li Ka-shing, Stephen Fry
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Getting past the clouds of doubt and seizing joy
Today we debut Balancing Act, a weekly column from the Tribune's Heidi Stevens that will explore the challenges — big, small, tragic, comic or all of the above — of juggling life and work in a not-always obliging world. An overwhelming...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Most intriguing person of 2012? Barack Obama, CNN viewers say
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelPresident Barack Obama was Time's Person of the Year. And CNN viewers, in an online poll, have picked him the most intriguing person of the year, the cable channel revealed Monday morning. The runners-up, from No. 2 to 10, were schoolgirl/activist... -
Yahoo in talks to buy YouTube-like video site Dailymotion
SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc. is in talks with France Telecom to buy a majority stake in Dailymotion, an online video site popular in Europe that has been scouting for a U.S. partner to take on Google Inc.'s YouTube. If completed, it would be Chief...Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Media Industry, Google Inc., France Telecom, The Wall Street Journal
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Silicon Valley presses Obama, Congress on immigration reform
SAN FRANCISCO -- Silicon Valley turned out in force on Capitol Hill to push its high-tech immigration reform agenda. In a rare show of unity, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer were among a coalition of...
Tags: Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Immigration, Media Industry, U.S. Congress
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Google breaks up mapping and commerce; exec Jeff Huber steps down
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google's senior ranks continue to shuffle with Jeff Huber stepping down as head of mapping and commerce. Huber will move to Google X, the lab run by Google co-founder Sergey Brin that is working on experimental projects such as the...
Tags: Project Glass, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc.
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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: New York City, Mark Zuckerberg, Media Industry, Google Inc., The New York Times
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Sheryl Sandberg's well-meaning condescension
To get somewhere in this circular debate over women and work, we need to get three women in the same room: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg. Slaughter quit her high-ranking job at the State Department to return to academia at...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Companies and Corporations, Google Inc., Corporate Officers, Economy, Business and Finance
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