Around the valley: Yahoo plans personalized Internet, Facebook vs. Twitter et...
Here’s a Friday grab bag of tech tidbits about Silicon Valley companies: • Yahoo will kick off the earnings party next week. CEO Marissa Mayer is in Davos at the movers-and-shakers confab known as the...
View ArticlePrivacy follow-ups: Facebook settlement could net users $10; more Google...
Follow-up roundup, all in the key of privacy on Data Privacy Day: • You might have received an email over the weekend about a proposed Facebook settlement that could get you $10. Did you think it was...
View ArticleYahoo earnings: searching for growth, a turnaround plan
How is Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer doing? That’s the big question as the Sunnyvale company — which surprised the technology world with its hiring of the former Googler last summer — is set to report...
View ArticleStock watch: Yahoo down post-earnings; Apple, which announced new iPad, is...
• Marissa Mayer is making a difference and righting the big purple ship, according to coverage about the earnings results Yahoo released Monday. But its shares are falling today amid a broader overall...
View ArticleTech stocks taking a beating — except for Netflix
Tech stocks are taking a beating, for the most part, on Wall Street this morning. As of 9 a.m. Pacific time, the tech-heavy Nasdaq is down more than 1.2 percent. After hitting the $30 mark last week,...
View ArticlePrivacy matters: Raytheon software that can track your digital life; Flickr’s...
• It probably comes as no surprise that software made by defense contractor Raytheon can easily track people using their digital footprints on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and other sites. A Raytheon...
View ArticleUpcoming: Tesla earnings, Yahoo redesign, Google Glass testing
Quick hits about what’s new or upcoming: • Tesla will report earnings this afternoon, on the heels of its public tiff with a New York Times reporter over his negative experience with driving a Model S...
View ArticleQuoted: Yahoo: No more working from home for you
“We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together.” — Jackie Reses, head of human resources at Yahoo, in a memo announcing that employees can forget about working from home...
View ArticleTech tapas: Yahoo’s new hiring practices, Google Street View settlement,...
Tuesday tapas about assorted Silicon Valley companies: • Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer isn’t just getting tough on telecommuting, she has also implemented stricter hiring standards at the Sunnyvale company....
View ArticleAround the valley: Tesla Model X production pushed back; Twitter music...
A quick roundup of some of the week’s news about Silicon Valley companies: • Tesla shares are down almost 9 percent this week. The Palo Alto electric-car maker said in a filing with the SEC last...
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