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Tech deal news: Bartz in no rush; Microsoft may lay off; Google cuts; Kevin Rose, Ashton Kutcher team up; and more

Carol Bartz (pictured) who took the top job at Yahoo! Inc. [YHOO] on Monday, is already displaying a cool head for dealmaking. Although she has spoken with Microsoft Corp. [MSFT] CEO Steve Ballmer...


Reid Hoffman back in the saddle at LinkedIn

Reid Hoffman is reprising his role as CEO of LinkedIn Corp., the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday evening.  Current LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye, who took over the chief spot from...


Betaworks entrepreneurs rub elbows with tech dealmakers at Betaday

Entrepreneurs backed by New York incubator Betaworks got an enviable opportunity Tuesday to pitch their startups to more than 50 of the best-known names in tech dealmaking from major media and advertising companies, established technology...


Fred Wilson on the 'Now Web' and monetizing Twitter

Union Square Ventures co-founder Fred Wilson (pictured) spoke with us about the emerging "Now Web," sometimes called the real-time Web, its potential for venture capitalists and the commercial opportunities this...


EXCLUSIVE: FriendFeed readying RSS accelerator

Update, 7:30 p.m.: FriendFeed Inc. co-founder Paul Buchheit has published a detailed explanation of the social networking aggregator's planned Simple Update Protocol. In a nutshell, he describes it as a...


Former AOL M&A pro Jorge Espinel reunites with Jonathan Miller at Velocity

Jorge Espinel, AOL's former head of corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions, has joined Velocity Interactive Group, the investment firm co-founded by former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller. Miller on Monday was named as...


Craig McCaw's right-hand man to head Sprint-Clearwire WiMAX JV

Benjamin Wolff's title may not be changing, but he's getting one heck of a promotion. As CEO of Clearwire, he headed a company valued at $3.9 billion before its...


Someecards founders quit day jobs, seek tech lead

When is it time to quit your day job? If you're Someecards Inc. co-founders Duncan Mitchell and Brook Lundy (pictured, left and right), the answer is when your Web site starts drawing...


Betaworks under the microscope

Betaworks might be the most influential early-stage investment firm no one's ever heard of. If it's take on Web 2.0 is right, that's sure to change. Tech Confidential takes...


Bill Gross on eSolar: 'Nobody has ever built a power plant this fast.'

Bill Gross has plenty to celebrate this Earth Day, as seeds he planted a dozen years ago begin to bear fruit. Idealab Inc., the technology incubator he founded in 1996, is...


Angel investor Chris Sacca backs Someecards

  A mini mystery is solved Thursday. We've known for awhile that ex-Google Inc. exec Chris Sacca, who has become a full-time investor and plans soon to raise a venture capital...


Loomia's Dave McMurtry: Friends know what you want

Loomia Inc., developer of SeenThis?, a social recommendations application for Facebook, is announcing Wednesday that it has closed a $5 million Series A from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Asset Management Co. and...


Google content partnership VP David Eun on changing technology

In part three of Tech Confidential's Behind the Money video interview with Google Inc. vice president of content partnerships David Eun, he answers our questions about how changes in the tech landscape...


Thousands of niche video creators offer ad opportunities, says Google content partnership vp David Eun

  Advertisers are more comfortable with user-generated content than reporters like me would have you believe, argues Google Inc. vice president of content partnerships David Eun in the second part of Tech...


Google's fab four launches FriendFeed with a $5M Series A

FriendFeed Inc. on Tuesday is launching publicly after a private beta test and announcing a $5 million Series A round. Like dozens of other companies, FriendFeed is trying to leverage...


Online ad vet Frank Addante gets $15 M Series B for the Rubicon Project

  Serial entrepreneur and online advertising pioneer Frank Addante this week announced $15 million in Series B funding for the Rubicon Project, led by Mayfield Fund. Founded by Addante, the Rubicon Project...


Chris Sacca, ex-Google wireless guru turned angel investor, lists admired startups

  Chris Sacca, the open wireless spectrum advocate who left Google Inc. last month to focus on early-stage investing, unwittingly got the blogosphere guessing this week about the identity of...


Gmail interface designer Kevin Fox joins Google alumni at FriendFeed

We've tracked down Kevin Fox, the playful designer who crafted the look and feel of Gmail and other Google Inc. programs and who told the world last Friday that he...


Avon CEO Andrea Jung likely to boost Apple's sales to women and in Asia

Avon Products Inc. CEO Andrea Jung "will add a new dimension" to Apple Inc.'s board of directors, says Steve Jobs. Actually, two new dimensions, as she is both female and...


Google's Sacca: VC funds are too big

Google Inc. wireless guru Chris Sacca, who is leaving the search titan to launch his career as an angel investor, graced us with a quick e-mail interview: Tech Confidential:...


Chris Sacca exits Google, enters land of angels

Just a few years after paying off his student loans and only about one year after making his first private investment in Photobucket Inc., Chris Sacca is leaving Google Inc....


Management shake-up at Tesla Motors turns rancorous

Things are getting ugly at Tesla Motors Inc. Martin Eberhard, who recently was replaced as CEO of the ballyhooed electric car startup, tells Tech Confidential he's not happy about the...


Google-backed 23andMe brings DNA testing to the masses

People have been using the Internet to trace their family trees for more than a decade. Now you also can use the Web to search your personal genome, thanks to...


Broadcaster CEO sizes up online video M&A

Click To Play play_blip_movie_421415(); "What's going on in the Internet, I believe, is a war," Marty Wade, CEO of Broadcaster Inc., tells Behind The Money. The battleground is "who is...


Google uses M&A to build lead

Google Inc. is using acquisitions to fill in research and development gaps, according to a recent research note from Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. analyst Robert Peck. "Google uses...



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