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This is only her first day on the job as CEO of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), but Marissa Mayer is already being criticized as an unusual hire with "no real leadership experience." "I have to tell you, I don't know what the Yahoo! board was thinking," CNBC's Herb Greenberg ranted last night. "This is a...

Are retail traders excited for the Facebook IPO? Or do they secretly fear it? If you listen to the mainstream media, you'll be under the impression that Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) initial public offering is slated to become the biggest of all time. Never mind the disappointing debut of Zynga (NASDAQ...

The search engine giant is one of many names being tossed around in the quest for Twitter's acquisition. Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA) are among the companies that are believed to be looking at Twitter, a company that is often criticized for failing...

There was an article on Reuters over the weekend that former Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang was looking to buy the company, and take it private. This begs the question: what does the former CEO see in the U.S. operations that no one else does? Yang wants to take the company...

If you Google “Wean a Baby from its Bottle,” you learn one important fact. The bottle must go. You can do it fast or you can do it slow, but in the end the baby has to stop the suckling. That is the nature of progress. Someone needed to tell that to Jerry Yang a long time ago. As a co-...

As many as three million people are signing up for Google+ every single day. That's according to Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research. Chowdhry's firm recently attended a series of social media events, during which Global Equities spoke to “no less...

The former Yahoo! VP of Product and Strategy is moving on. According to Business Insider, Kevin Krim was hired to save Bloomberg.com. Last December, he told Benzinga's own Jason Raznick about the progress that had been made. “We, according to comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), have over 20 million unique...

Yahoo's board finally had enough with Carol Bartz, and moved to fire her on Tuesday after market closed. Investors, who had had enough with Ms. Bartz as well, gladly bid Yahoo's stock up 6% on the news. The market had high hopes with Ms. Bartz when she joined Yahoo! two years ago, but ultimately...

Carl Ichan may be regarded as a brilliant investor, but don't tell Global Equities Research that. Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research, has sent out a note responding to Ichan's advice for Motorola Mobility Holdings (NYSE: MMI). “Carl Ichan has destroyed both Yahoo (NASDAQ:...

Yesterday, mobile startup SnapGuide closed a funding round totaling more than $2 million. Index Ventures led the round, with participation from Atlas Ventures. Dave Morin, Gary Clayton and SV Angel and other angels also participated. SnapGuide was founded by Daniel Raffel and Steve Krulewitz....

There's a new trend for Detroit businesses: IPOs. It began last November when Reuters reported that the beleaguered automotive corporation General Motors (NYSE: GM) had the largest IPO on record, raising over $20 billion. According to The Detroit News, Delphi intends to follow suit, as the...

Benchmark has raised the Price Target of Yahoo from $16 to $18. According to Benchmark, "Yahoo's revenue growth remains stalled. But it is consistently generating, and should grow, cash flow. Yahoo's Asian investments are growing rapidly and comparables garner high multiples. We raise our estimate...