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Tech CEOs are getting a lot of attention lately. With the exception of exiting Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the attention is not a good thing. From Carol Bartz's ...

The latest rumors swirling around Yahoo is that Google might bankroll a private equity buyout—although why it might do so or how such a deal could ever get past U.S. antitrust regulators remains a mystery. But ever since Carol Bartz was fired, everyone from Alibaba to AOL (our parent company) seems to be floating trail balloons for some kind of deal to buy or merge Yahoo. Confused? The helpful animation above from Next Media Animation in Taiwan explains the situation. It's a circus, and Jerry Yang is the ringmaster. I love the part where he refuses the $44.6 billion gift from Microsoft. I bet Steve Ballmer finds that part funny also.

Napster co-founder, former Facebook president and current Airtime CEO Sean Parker subbed in for Zynga CEO Mark Pincus today onstage at Web 2.0 Summit, when Pincus couldn’t speak because of Zynga’s quiet period (sidenote: expect an IPO within the next month, yo). You know what’s cool? That the 15-year-old Parker, oddly enough, used to intern for Mark Pincus’ Washington, D.C. startup, FreeLoader, the first consumer push information service, before he, you know, became famous. Talk about what goes around comes around. Crunchbase ZYNGA AIRTIME Company: Zynga Website: zynga.com Funding: $1B Zynga was founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus and is named for his late American Bulldog, Zinga. Loyal and spirited, Zinga’s name is a nod to a legendary African warrior queen. The early supporting founding team included Eric Schiermeyer, Michael Luxton, Justin Waldron, Kyle Stewart, Scott Dale, John Doerr, Steve Schoettler, Kevin Hagan, and Andrew Trader. Zynga’s mission is connecting the world through games. Everyday millions of people interact with their friends and express their unique personalities through our... Learn more Company: Airtime Website: airtime.com Funding: $8.5M The new stealth project by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker. It is believed to be in the video chatting space. Originally codenamed Supyo, it will launch as Airtime. Learn more : Website: Learn more

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My favorite chapter in Carol Realini's new book Bankrupt ... She contrasts the banks to technology companies -- especially Apple -- where Steve Jobs took a $1 a year salary when he returned to the near bankrupt company in 1997 to rebuild ...

“Carol Bartz can totally relate to my interests, passions and dreams.” Senior Class President and man-about-town Steven Olikara heralded the commencement choice as “a victory beyond measure.” “Who would wanna hear from someone lame like Bill ...

Snell & Wilmer is pleased to announce that Tucson attorney Stephen J. Young has joined the UApresents advisory ... Boalt Hall School of Law, his M.B.A. from University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business and his B.A. from the University ...

Nancy Ford Springer Inspiration Award recipients Sara Herbert Galloway and Barry Klarberg with Carol Alt. Photo: Steve Mack/S.D. Mack Pictures. Here are the facts about meningococcal disease: Each year, meningococcal disease strikes nearly 1,500 ...

John B. McCobb and Sara M. Bober to Edward J ... Kourilovitch and Joy Ricigliano, property at 662 Route 12 for $75,900. Edna S. Hoff to Mark C. Steve and Kelly M. Steve, property at 671 Rosemont Ringoes Road for $294,000. Robert James DeMarco ...

Saturday, May 5: Artist presentations by Jon Otteson, digital photography, at 1 p.m.; Carol Gustavson ... Tom Wirt of the Hutchinson Center for the Arts; and Mayor Steve Cook, Hutchinson Public Arts Commission, at the Crow River Golf Club ...

But his wife, Carol Swenson, was in attendance and cut the ribbon for ... Salem Area Chamber of Commerce also were in attendance at the ribbon cutting. Councilman Steve Leifson spoke about the trail system and how excited members of the council are to ...