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Yahoo! net income drops 78%; Bartz wants company to "kick ass"

Yahoo!'s new CEO Carol Bartz announces 5% job cuts along with first-quarter earnings after market close.


Wenda Harris Millard on move to Media Link

Wenda Harris Millard says she isn't leaving Martha Stewart, rather she's going to Michael Kassan, the media consultant who helped squash Google's deal with Yahoo!.


Yahoo! earnings preview

Analysts expect mixed results from Yahoo!'s earnings call after market close Tuesday. Will CEO Carol Bartz say anything about a deal with Microsoft?


August Capital: Big deals for big fund

StumbleUpon was just the beginning. August Capital's David Hornik has big plans for the firm's new fund, the biggest raised in the first quarter.


Facebook, Twitter would heat up the IPO market

With rumors swirling that Facebook turned down VC offers that value it between $2 billion and $4 billion, Fred Wilson says the company may as well go public.


No Facebook widget makers for Spark's Sabet

Spark Capital's Bijan Sabet talks about backing entrepreneurs with big ideas in Part 2 of our video conversation.


Ballmer could save Bartz $1B a year

Jefferies & Co. Internet analyst Youssef Squali says Yahoo! could save $1 billion-plus a year by outsourcing search infrastructure to Microsoft.


Fewer VC fundraisings in first quarter

At $650 million, August Capital V was the biggest VC fund raised in the first quarter.


Yahoo!'s Bartz and Microsoft's Ballmer talking

The CEOs of Yahoo! and Microsoft met face to face last week, says AllThingsDigital's Kara Swisher.


Demi Moore's suicide save latest Twitter feat

We haven't seen an overnight pop hit like Twitter in a long time. No wonder Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! may all be after it.


Obama town hall: legalizing pot won't grow economy

President Obama is having a high-tech week: Yesterday he met with Bill Gates and other technology leaders. Today he answered questions from thousands of Internet users.


ExecTweets falls flat

Twitter's new ExecTweets service sounds a lot more interesting than it is. How about following The Deal on Twitter instead? :)



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