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Fearing the 'F' Word: Are you now or have you ever been a 'feminist?'
You know, I was going to offer up a very calm, middle-of-the-road argument saying that it’s perfectly fine if some women — women in positions of power, no less — seem to be running like scalded cats from the word “feminist”...Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Minority Groups, Feminism, Career and Workplace, Civil Rights
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Nick D'Aloisio, 17, suddenly rich, famous after Yahoo buys Summly
SAN FRANCISCO -- Meet Nick D'Aloisio, the 17-year-old British entrepreneur sensation who just sold his popular news-reading app to Yahoo Inc. for close to $30 million, instantly becoming one of the world's youngest self-made technology millionaires. It'...
Tags: Zynga Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Telecommunication Service, Media Industry, Ashton Kutcher
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Apple iPhone 5 and 4S both outsell Galaxy S III in fourth quarter
Apple had not just one but the top two bestselling smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a report released Wednesday. Strategy Analytics estimates that Apple sold 27.4 million units of its iPhone 5 in the quarter, and 17.4 million...
Tags: Computer Hardware, Apple iPhone, New Products
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Yahoo in talks to buy YouTube-like video site Dailymotion
SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc. is in talks with France Telecom to buy a majority stake in Dailymotion, an online video site popular in Europe that has been scouting for a U.S. partner to take on Google Inc.'s YouTube. If completed, it would be Chief...Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corporation, The Wall Street Journal, Media Industry, France Telecom
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Silicon Valley presses Obama, Congress on immigration reform
SAN FRANCISCO -- Silicon Valley turned out in force on Capitol Hill to push its high-tech immigration reform agenda. In a rare show of unity, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer were among a coalition of...
Tags: Barack Obama, Media Industry, U.S. Congress, Immigration, Mark Zuckerberg
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Google breaks up mapping and commerce; exec Jeff Huber steps down
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google's senior ranks continue to shuffle with Jeff Huber stepping down as head of mapping and commerce. Huber will move to Google X, the lab run by Google co-founder Sergey Brin that is working on experimental projects such as the...
Tags: Project Glass, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.
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Family-Friendly, Flexible Companies Attract Better Talent
The Hartford CourantWhen you work from home, you don't have to share a toilet with anyone not related to you. Depending on the age and aiming abilities of your children, this can be a good or bad thing. You don't have to make arrangements for snow days, sick kid days and...Tags: Mitt Romney, Skype, La-Z-Boy Incorporated, Starbucks Corp.
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Work crept into her life, until life disappeared
Erin Callan was the face of Lehman Brothers in 2008 as it battled insolvency rumors. Fresh, pretty, smart and confidently articulate, she worked feverishly to try to talk nervous investors out of jumping ship. But when the company imploded in 2008,...Tags: Media Industry, New York City, The New York Times, Google Inc., Mark Zuckerberg
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Sheryl Sandberg's well-meaning condescension
To get somewhere in this circular debate over women and work, we need to get three women in the same room: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg. Slaughter quit her high-ranking job at the State Department to return to academia at...Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Facebook, Google Inc., Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Department of State
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I (heart) introverts
It's not just a women's issue. Granted, that's how many of us are framing last month's decision by Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo! Inc., to end telecommuting and require all employees to report to the office. It ignited a firestorm of controversy over...
Tags: Al Gore, Yahoo! Inc., Schindler's List (movie), Bill Clinton, Google Inc.
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Unlike Yahoo, most firms to keep telecommute option, survey says
Despite recent moves by Yahoo Inc. and Best Buy to end work-from-home arrangements, telecommuters need not fret. Most firms have no plans to end the flexible work policies, a survey found. A poll of 120 human resources executives by Challengers, Gray...
Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Employees, Career and Workplace
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer causes uproar with telecommuting ban
SAN FRANCISCO — Corporate America's most famous working mother has banned her employees from working at home. Now the backlash is threatening to overshadow the progress she has made turning around Yahoo Inc. Marissa Mayer, one of only a handful of...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, University of Texas at Austin, Google Inc., Computing and Information Technology Industry, Economy, Business and Finance
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