Billionaire Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert from Quicken Loans Are Bidding on Yahoo
Reuters reports on Friday that Quicken Loans Founder and Detroit native Dan Gilbert and billionaire Warren Buffett, the founder of Berkshire Hathaway, have come together for a bid on Yahoo. According More...
Media Entrepreneur Peter Chernin Reportedly Eyeing Yahoo! Search Business
Peter Chernin, chairman and CEO of The Chernin Group and the former president and chief operating officer of News Corp., is said to be interested in acquiring Yahoo!’s search business. Analysts have valued More...
Yahoo starts testing search partnership with Google
Google flight search Now that Yahoo and Microsoft aren’t exclusive anymore – once it involves search, that’s they’ll each work with different corporations. In fact, in line with The More...
Dan Loeb knows how to stir the pot
Third Point hedge fund manager Dan Loeb has turned $3 million into $17.5 billion by being a cagey investor and a proverbial “kochlefel” (pot stirrer). His letters to the CEOs of major corporations are legendary, More...
Spotify Expands With Video, Podcasts and Radio Streaming
– – Spotify, the music streaming service which gives users access to millions of songs, is expanding its services. The company will now offer video, podcast and radio streaming services. It More...
Chinese Search Giant Baidu Makes Strategic Investment in Taboola, now it plans to conquer China
Israeli content recommendation company Taboola receive a multi-million dollar strategic investment partnership with the popular search engine Baidu Inc. (Nasdaq:BIDU), the “China’s Google”. Taboola More...
Third Point’s Loeb not pushing for Yum to split off China business
(Reuters) – Billionaire investor Daniel Loeb said on Wednesday that he sees room for restaurant chain company Yum! Brands (YUM.N) to potentially split off its China business, but said he is not pushing More...
Marissa Mayer Puts Simon Khalaf in Charge of Consumer Products in Yahoo Leadership Shuffle
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on Friday announced a major reorganization of her product teams, appointing Simon Khalaf—who used to be CEO of Flurry, a mobile analytics startup Yahoo bought from Khalaf last More...
Meerkat’s CEO Ben Rubin Talks about his Company’s Future
Founder and CEO of new Israeli startup Meerkat Ben Rubin sat down for an interview with Yahoo Tech to discuss his company’s future now that it has been blocked by Twitter. Meerkat, which was developed by More...
Evan Spiegel’s Snapchat Doubles Value in One Year, May Snap Up $500 Million
Facebook might have the Midas touch, but Snapchat’s founder Evan Spiegel was smart to make Zuckerberg’s offer of $3 billion in 2013 disappear, as Snapchat’s most recent round of funding More...