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more about #yahoo more comments → Tremonius: If the `spawn of a former Yahoo CEO' demands of a bouncer "just fucking Google me, you dumb fuck" then the search wars are already lost, and Microsof... more » random_play: Ok, I admit it. I want to see her sex video. You know there's at least one out there, and it has to be good. That mouth was designed for one thing. more » nicepony: As my grandmother said; You get the face you deserve. more » raincoaster: She always looks like a really mediocre tranny Mariah Carey impersonator. more » Magister: She's quite the Yahooligan! more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Oh, almost forgot. Speaking of fameballs -- I was driving along minding my own business, and then BOOM there she was, Julia Allison, in my car, selli... more » ifstone: Someone "invented" PHP? I'd always assumed it had plopped out of the collective asses of a thousand webmonkeys. Seriously, if I'd invented PHP, I woul... more » TheHonJudgeSmails: Has Valleywag been outsourced to Pakistan? #yahoo more » BadUncle: How do you pronounce "Geocities," anyway? Is it "gee-oh-cities," or "gee-ahh-sit-ees?" Hard "g" or soft? These are the big questions. #yahoo more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: The day the animated homepage with music died. #yahoo more » goetz: Awhhh. Goodbye, first website. You were never very pretty, and then geocities pimpled you with ads. #yahoo more » belltolls: Is my AOL Hometown page still up? I know my Tripod page is. #yahoo more » Matt Cherette: . more » TANUKIII: Speaking as a Taiwanese living in Taiwan, while I don't work in the tech industry, because practically almost all of my close friends are, including m... more » raincoaster: Um, making fun of foreigners and peoples' bodies isn't sexism; it's just plain bigotry. If you lumped them all under THAT rather powerful word, you mi... more » -
#valleyspawn
Yahoo's Lesbian 'Don Juan' Backhands Lindsay Lohan
Courtenay Semel, the sapphic spawn of former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, is quoted in the lesbian magazine Curve dissing former lady friend Lindsay Lohan. Then she complains that the media twists her relationships. The nerve of this one.
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#exits
Ãœber-Programmer Ditches Yahoo Over 'Lame' Microsoft Deal
No one likes Yahoo's search deal with Microsoft. Wall Street wanted more up front money; tech elites called it an abdication, a "shame" and "seppuku." Now Yahoo is losing a programming icon over the embarrassing arrangement. More » -
#surrealestate
Monuments to Hubris: The New Tech HQs That Harbinger Doom
Historically, big tech companies start building new gigantic corporate campus instead right before they implode. Oh, look: Yahoo's drawing up plans for a 42-acre project and hadn't laying off thousands of workers. More » -
#geocities
How to Blow $3.5 Billion
Yahoo finally shuttered Geocities today. Acquired in 1999, Geocities was one of the costliest dot-com duds of of all time: $3.5 billion for an ugly, cash-bleeding homepage hosting service. And to think Google's founders were simultaneously begging server funds. More » -
#flackery
Carol Bartz Too Sick To Explain Financial Performance
Carol Bartz has "come down with something," Yahoo's chief financial officer tells Wall Street, so the CEO was absent from a third-quarter earnings call. Whoops: Profits tripled this quarter, but Bartz's illness is a ready-made metaphor for Yahoo's falling revenue. More » -
#geeksgonewild
Yahoo Lap Dancers the Latest in a Chorus Line of Tech Sexism Scandals
Yahoo has apologized for providing lap dances on stage at a Tawian programming event. Critics aren't mollified, and that's probably just as well: it's all but certain something like this will happen again soon.
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#overshares
Yahoo's CEO Is a Thumb Sucker
Quirky Yahoo chief Carol Bartz enjoys cursing like a sailor and "crawling into a hole" with chocolate. We now learn she also likes time outs: "I come home. I suck my thumb and don't talk to me." No problem. (Pic) -
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#exclusive
In Messy Divorce, Ex-Yahoo President Accused of Being a Druggy, Philandering Spy
Sue Decker's tenure as Yahoo president was full of corporate intrigue. But it's nothing compared to her ongoing divorce in which her husband's lawyer is brandishing accusations of illegal drug use, "extramarital affair(s)" and secretly recording him at home.
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#flackery
Current Yahoo CEO Isn't 'Stupid' Like Certain Other Yahoo CEOs
Carol Bartz's CNBC appearance today was great P.R. — sharp and personable instead of defensive and sweary — but couldn't be good for morale back at the office. The Yahoo CEO kept talking about Yahoo fuckups. More » -
#memos
Yahoo's CEO 'Wanted to Crawl Into a Hole and Eat Chocolate'
Carol Bartz's critics nearly put her into a chocolate-eating funk, the Yahoo CEO wrote in a recent memo. But now is no time for "staring at our navels... Get out of the sugar low." Maybe with some chocolate! Wait... [AllThingsD] -
#politics
How to Delete Any Photo on Flickr
Yahoo deleted a controversial caricature of "Joker" Barack Obama from its creator's Flickr account. Why? Someone with an obviously fake name filed a copyright complaint. More » -
#softwareasadisservice
Flickr Shuts Down Discussions About Flickr Constantly Shutting Things Down
Flickr deleted a controversial Barack Obama caricature; it nuked thousands of pictures over some comments about Obama. What sort of political expression is allowed on the Yahoo photo-sharing service? Unclear: Flickr decided a conversation on the topic was... not allowed. More » -
#deals
Yahoo Learns New Definition of 'Safe'
In September, Yahoo touted Firefox to Internet Explorer users as a "safer" browser. Now it's doing just the opposite. Funny what an innocent little "search agreement" can do to one's perception of the world. [TechCrunch] -
#disasters
Flickr Loses a Few Thousand More Pictures, with No Recourse
A Flickr user is complaining loudly that the photo service allowed 3,000+ of his photos to be deleted by a hacker with no warning. Now they're supposedly gone, forever. When will Flickr start making backups? More » -
#deals
Microsoft to Slowly Devour Yahoo
Today's deal between Microsoft and Yahoo is officially a partnership. But the 10-year search deal, assuming it clears regulators, inevitably ends one way: With Yahoo's annihilation. More » -
#deals
Yahoo, Microsoft To Go Steady Tomorrow: Report
After a failed romance last year, tears; then fighting and the nastiness; followed by a slow, painful reconciliation starting earlier this year. Yahoo and Microsoft have finally — finally — united with an advertising deal, All Things D reports. More » -
#cubicleculture
We're Firing! Then, 'We're Hiring!'
People appreciate of corporate flexibility in a recession. Fire people, hire them back, God bless you. But keep firing and hiring in an endless cycle, and people are liable to think you're as sadistic as Yahoo. More » -
#yahoo
CEO Carol Bartz Would Like You to Work Harder While She Goes on Leave
Carol Bartz is going to be out for two weeks. The surly Yahoo CEO is having her leg surgically enhanced so she can kick ass even harder; why are the rest of you peons just sitting around, on your butts??
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#modernandawkward
Yahoo's Cuddly Flack Sends Adorable Email
There's some kind of sick good cop/bad cop deal going down at Yahoo. CEO Carol Bartz swears, smacks down reporters and threatens "dropkicks." Her enforcer, meanwhile, has a Pomeranian named Clio and loves David Sedaris and peach cobbler ice cream. More »
