SF News Yahoo CEO Steps Down, Announces Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis After dodging accusations of resume padding, Yahoo's barely-there CEO Scott Thompson announced over the weekend that he is stepping down from the post he's held for barely four months. While Yahoo declined to
SF News Yahoo CEO Still Not Sure Who Changed His Resume, Spurned Bartz Spits Acid After Yahoo stakeholders at activist hedge fund Third Point called out Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson for a padded resume last week, Thompson has taken to pleading ignorance in the matter. His latest defense
Arts & Entertainment Meet The Cast Of Bravo's New Silicon Valley Reality Show Bravo unveiled a new batch of must-see shows for the fall season. One in particular, Silicon Valley, produced by Randi Zuckerberg, Mark's sister, will take place here in the Bay Area. (Regarding the
SF News Hahaha: Zynga CEO Wants Employees to Return Stock Zynga CEO Mark Pincus is funny. Why? Well, according to the Wall Street Journal, he wants his early employees to return some of the stock they own before the company's initial public offering.
SF News Yahoo "F--ked Me Over," Says Carol Bartz In her first interview since being fired as CEO of Yahoo on Tuesday, colorful Carol Bartz didn't hold back when discussing her former employers. "These people fucked me over," she said to CNN.
SF News Mark Zuckerberg's Sister Quits Facebook One of Facebook's earliest employees, Randi Zuckerberg, sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, resigned from the social networking company. Randi "is leaving her position as director of marketing at the Palo Alto-based website after
SF News New Apple Boss: Gay Scoring a major coup for the gay agenda, new Apple boss (and future CEO if Steve Jobs never returns from his medical leave of absence) COO Tim Cook will mark "a new era
SF News Steve Jobs Won't Return To Apple, Says Slate Aside from publishing what history will look back on as the single most misguided and thoughtless arts & entertainment article ever written, we almost always respect Slate. So when they post a piece
SF News Steve Jobs To Take Medical Leave Of Absence Raising concerns again about his health, 55-year-old CEO Steve Jobs will take a medical leave of absence while remaining involved in “major strategic decisions” for Apple. Yikes. Jobs announced the decision in the
SF News HP CEO Resigns After Allegations of Sexual Harassment First, Hewlett-Packard had one of the worst CEOs of all time, GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina. And now, according to SFGate, current HP CEO and President Mark Hurd has resigned effective immediately. Why?
SF News Russian President Rides Up Third Street in 20-Car Motorcade Ever been stuck in traffic coming up Third Street and wished you could be riding in your own 20-car motorcade with nary a Muni bus in sight? That's how Russian prez Dmitry Medvedev
SF News Google Likely to Cancel Operations in China by Amy Crocker According to the Wall Street Journal, it's increasingly likely that Mountain View-based Google will cancel operations in China as negotiations with the government over censorship stall. There's a lot of
SF News Steve Jobs, the Rachel Zoe of Silicon Valley? Though not nearly as important as Rachel Zoe (obvi), Apple CEO Steve Jobs is facing some of the same criticism as Hollywood's most stylish heroine, namely his pin-thin stature. "I probably need to
SF News Google CEO Steps Down From Apple Board Since working for both Google and Apple is starting to look odd, Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently ditched his gig on the board at Apple. Being on the board since 2006, Schmidt thought
SF News Yahoo-Microsoft Deal Imminent; VCs Spending Again Could the wheels of techie commerce once again be spinning? Two news items today suggest that yes, the powers that be are opening their wallets. First off, that long talked about Microsoft-Yahoo deal
SF News Amazon to Buy Netflix? Word on Wall Street is that Silicon Valley's Netflix, who in just 12 years has changed the way we rent movies while clobbering Blockbuster's power, might be bought out by Amazon. According to
SF News Quote du Jour: Ryan Tate is a Terrorist Chiseled Facebook investor and PayPal co-founder, Peter Thiel, doesn't have anything nice to say about Valleywag, the online internet website about the tender underbelly of Silicon Valley. In fact, he thinks they're no
SF News Facebook Investor Not Pleased With Women's Suffrage Peter Thiel -- noted gay Silicon Valley libertarian, PayPal co-founder, and the one of the first Facebook investors -- recently penned an essay in which he suggests that the last time one could
SF News Oracle to Purchase Sun for $7.4 Billion Doing what IBM failed to do earlier this month, Oracle will purchase computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems for around $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of cash, 9.50
SF News Silicon Valley Looking for First-Ever Poet Laureate In an attempt to compete culturally with more richly textured areas of California (i.e., San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Buttonwillow), San Jose is looking to land its first poet laureate. According to
SF News Yahoo: The Search For the Next Yahoo CEO While Silicon Valley sobers up from last night's news about Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang stepping down, the question on techies minds today is who's next? Valleywag and blogger Kara Swisher speculates that Peter
SF News Silicon Valley Janitors On Strike It seems that over 1,000 custodial artists have gone on strike as of this morning at some of Silicon Valley's most prestigious hi-tech companies, including Cisco Systems and Apple, livid over a
SF News Day Around the Bay Silicon Valley whores less than pleased with Viagra. [Valleywag] That Nina "Bad Wife" Reiser trial is still going on, and getting interesting. [SF Gate] The rules of PDA during dinnertime. [CHOW] California, it
SF News Rupert Murdoch to Buy Yahoo!? So, you didn't like Microsoft, did you? Well, how about News Corp.? In an attempt to rejuvenate Yahoo and fend off Microsoft's advances, Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate is reportedly in talks to purchase
SF News Yahoo Layoffs Happening Right This Very Second According to a Valleywag tipster: FYI - I've heard the word from my peeps over at Yahoo Search Marketing in Burbank CA that the layoffs are going down as we speak, and people
