Posts Tagged by Scott Thompson
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
It has been a most unusual week in the tech world, with neither news about Apple nor any more mind-numbing patent lawsuits. Instead we’ve got some exciting intrigue at Yahoo! – did he alter it or didn’t he? – along with good news on ACTA, bad news about The Pirate Bay (sort of), several announcements from Facebook, and a couple of highly amusing computer glitches. Read about all this, and more, below. Business The headlines this week were that Scott Thompson, CEO of Yahoo!, is being accused of falsifying his academic record. Thompson’s official Yahoo! profile (included as part of regulatory filings submitted to the SEC), as well as his official bio from his previous job at eBay, stated that… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| April 8, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
After a couple of weeks’ absence, owing in part to very slow news weeks (and one to a brief Soviet takeover), TSR on tech is back this week with a round up of all the week’s most important, interesting, and inspiring technology stories. We unfortunately have to start off grimly with cuts at Yahoo!, but then we get to look at how busy the world has been arresting hackers and discover a very cool new idea from Google, so it’s not all bad. Without further ado, read on! Business The big story this week was of course the laying off of 2,000 employees at Yahoo!, representing 14% of the permanent workforce. The cuts, championed by CEO Scott Thompson, are the largest… more
Yahoo!: Not flying, falling with style
| April 8, 2012 | Posted by Alaa Jasim under technology |
Or, well not even that really. Just falling. Excuse the casual Toy Story reference there but it’s the first thing that popped into my head as I read about the slow death of this once massive company. Or at least, that’s where I believe it’s headed – a slow death, I mean, not Toy Story. Who knows? Its leadership might just turn it all around with the latest restructuring of the company, but I, along with many others, highly doubt it. After all, it was pretty obvious things were going badly wrong when key members of the company mysteriously started quitting. So it didn’t really come as a surprise when on Wednesday Yahoo! announced that a whopping 14% of its employees would… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| February 12, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
It might have been a slow week for tech, perhaps thanks to the Super Bowl taking all the media coverage, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t got some great stories for you. We’re covering yet another board shuffle at Yahoo!, GigaOM’s acquisition of paidContent, some crazy Kickstarter projects, more setbacks for ACTA, Google Chrome for Android, and doctors who successfully used 3D printing to create a prosthetic jaw for an elderly woman. All this, and more, below. Business Yahoo!’s chairman, Roy Bostock, and three of its directors have announced their impending departure from the company. The move, which will occur at the next shareholder meeting, will leave Yahoo! with a board which has changed completely since 2010. Although this effectively gives… more
