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exits
Why did Scott Moore really leave Yahoo?
The departure of Scott Moore, head of Yahoo's Media Group, seemed hasty. Microsoft exec Jeff Dossett, in talks with Yahoo for an entirely different job, ended up replacing Moore. And in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Moore only gave the vaguest of hints as to what he'd do next — which suggests he hadn't really had time to think it through. But a tipster suggests why Moore might be leaving now: Retention bonuses, issued to top execs after Microsoft's takeover offer, are kicking in. -
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If Scott Moore leaves Yahoo, does that mean it's buying AOL?
Scott Moore, the head of Yahoo Media Group, is leaving the company, reports BoomTown's Kara Swisher. A bad sign for the company: Moore ran some of Yahoo's most successful operations, including its news, finance, and sports websites. Why is Moore leaving now, having survived most of Yahoo's annus horribilis with his charm unruffled? The first conclusion I'll jump to: Talks with Time Warner to sell AOL to Yahoo are advancing, and Moore does not like his position in the merged entity. Update: Swisher writes: "Dead wrong guess as usual. Talks are slower than ever. He had the top job over Bill Wilson." Well, why didn't you say so in the first place, Kara?
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By Owen ThomasComment by karaswisher: I forgot you were in remedial reading, Owen. I said it here: "With high-ranking Yahoo execs like Moore gone, it will... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Yahoo replaces departing Entertainment VP, for now
Yahoo Sports head James Pitaro will take over departing VP Karin Gilford's responsibilities as head of Yahoo Entertainment. But with no end to the Microsoft ordeal in sight, how long will Pitaro stay? Yahoo Media boss Scott Moore put Gilford in charge of Entertainment only this spring, but the promotion obviously didn't stick. She's going to Comcast."She got poached," a Yahoo exec tells us. "C’est la vie at Yahoo these days, unfortunately." We hear Moore's had his hands full trying to keep Pitaro in place, too.
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Comment by giddieup: theres only 1 more reshuffle left for yahoo.. the ones that is coming on august 1 at the shareholder meeting. more » | Other threads
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karin gilford
Yahoo Entertainment VP bolts for Comcast
When Scott Moore reorganized Yahoo's media business in April, we called VP Karin Gilford, head of Yahoo Entertainment, "the big winner." Now she's just another goner. Gilford has quit the company and will take a new job at Comcast. We admire Moore's ability to regularly crush the competition — In May, for example, Yahoo! News had 38.8 million users to AOL News' 29 million — but we wonder if Moore's shitkicking winniness might also crush his own reports. That Gilford joins a long list of Moore's reports who have suddenly exited the company doesn't do much to defend Moore's reputation. Former head of Yahoo Entertainment Vince Broady is gone. So is onetime Yahoo News editor Neil Budde. Yahoo Music boss Ian Rogers only gave Moore two days' notice when he left. Instead of running Yahoo Food like she used to, Deanna Brown is busy running Scripps Interactive to the company's notable profit. Here's an example of Gilford pitching Yahoo in happier days: More »
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Comment by ripopgome: This is good news for YHOO. Finally, get rid of some of the dead weight in the Ent org. What... more » | Other threads
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Who's moving up, moving out or on the fence at Yahoo
Yahoo CEO-in waiting Sue Decker continues to push the company through yet another reorganization. An her minions aren't happy about it. One told Kara Swisher: “I am not sure right now, with all this drama and all this tension from Microsoft’s failed takeover and the rest of it, why we have to do this. This feels crazy.” We figure the best way to do this is rip the band-aid off and move on. So below, who's in, who's up and who's out in quick and dirty bullet points. More »
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Comment by happytimes: Bolte is LONG gone. Happened over a month or so ago. Keep up with the times, people! more » | Other threads
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hires
Who will replace Jeff Weiner at Yahoo?
If Jeff Weiner, head of Yahoo's search, community, and media properties, leaves the company, who's left to run things? An outside hire seems unlikely, Michael Arrington points out, given Carl Icahn's fight with the Yahoo board. That leaves a battlefield promotion for one of Weiner's direct reports, shown here from left to right: Brad Garlinghouse, Scott Moore, Vish Makhijani, and Tapan Bhat. Here's our handicapping of this horserace: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by valley_worker: Doesn't really matter who they put there. They will never succeed as long as Filo is above them and... more » | Other threads
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spy photos
Valleywag spots secret Yahoo conclave at D6
CARLSBAD, CA — On stage at D6, Sue Decker couldn't offer any explanation why she was qualified to be president of Yahoo. But if you ask Valleywag, she's doing a bang-up job of pursuing Yahoo's strategy of embracing openness. For example, by holding a meeting within camera-lens length of Valleywag in the Four Seasons Lobby Lounge. Our eye was first drawn by Yahoo Media Group chief Scott Moore's blindingly colorful Madras shirt; we then saw he was sitting with Decker. Two of the other participants: Gordon McLeod and Matthew Goldberg, business-side executives at Dow Jones, which means they were likely discussing some kind of news-content partnership between Yahoo and the Wall Street Journal. I'd thought I spooted Brad Garlinghouse, the Yahoo executive who wrote the famous "Peanut Butter Memo," in the group, but I'm told he wasn't there. I later spotted him strolling down the halls with Yahoo board member Bobby Kotick, the CEO of Activision. More pictures of the meeting: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by brandnew_yerretro: probably a decent call on the ad deal. that's todd teresi in there too, the svp of the yahoo publisher... more » | Other threads
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d6 live coverage
Yahoo's Scott Moore catches Time Warner CEO fudging numbers
CARLSBAD, CA — How rarely can one give one's enemies an in-your-face comeuppance? For Yahoo's Scott Moore, the chance came during Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes's interview at D6. Bewkes claimed that AOL was No. 1 in news, finance, and a host of other categories. "Where are you getting your numbers?" asked Moore during the session's open-mic portion, pointing out that AOL led Yahoo in all the areas Bewkes mentioned. Bewkes offered a feeble parry, suggesting that the numbers were close. Not even, Moore replied, rattling off how many millions of users the Yahoo sites he leads beat AOL. A satisfying moment, but shouldn't Moore be keeping his career options open at a time like this? (Photo by Asa Mathat/AllThingsD.com)
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By Owen ThomasComment by nickcharles: Actually Bewkes is right - via ComScore, AOL is ahead of Yahoo in Health, Women, Movies, Music, etc. in Unique... more » | Other threads
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profits are the best revenge
Ousted Yahoo exec completes Scripps Interactive turnaround
Earnings season can bore, but behind some numbers, there's very human drama. Scripps, the home-and-garden media mini-empire, saw profits rise 22.8 percent to $84.1 million in the first quarter, thanks in large part to Scripps Interactive, led by former Yahoo executive Deanna Brown. Her unit swung to a profit of $21 million in the first quarter. A year ago, Scripps Interactive lost $15 million in the first quarter. At Yahoo, Brown, we had heard, choked under the rule of Yahoo media czar Scott Moore, whom some ex-employees called "suffocating." At the time, Brown only told us, "Sorry, not going to get into this." How politic. Numbers speak louder than words, at any rate.
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Comment by TangledWebWatcher: Could not have happened to a nicer person. DB worked for fools and so she left Y!. One more time she... more » | Other threads
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ian rogers
Departing Yahoo music chief gave Scott Moore two days' notice
Departing Yahoo music chief Ian Rogers wasn't "reorganized out" of the company, a source tells us. "The reorg was caused by his departure with two days' notice." Rogers left for all the obvious reasons: to escape both Microsoft and — like others before him — Yahoo Media czar Scott Moore's high-pressure management style. "He was tied of swimming upstream," our source says. "But he was careful to make nice with Scott before he left as to not burn the bridge."
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Comment by iancr: Hrm. Seeing how I sent my letter of resignation March 30th, and I'm still sitting in a Yahoo! desk... more » | Other threads
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reorgs
Scott Moore shakes up Yahoo Media Group, music chief leaves
Scott Moore, the former Microsoftie now running Yahoo's media businesses, has reorganized his group, which runs Yahoo's original-content websites. Out the door: Ian Rogers, the outspoken head of Yahoo Music, who had loudly criticized the music industry for insisting on copy protection. Rogers says on his blog that he's joining Topspin Media, a music startup, as CEO. Rogers also oversaw some of Yahoo's video efforts, which Moore now says he'll run personally. The reorg comes in advance of two days of all-hands meetings in Sunnyvale and Santa Monica in two weeks. Moore's memo: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by TheGunslinger: If in doubt, just reorganize! It would appear that the brightest and most talented people are leaving the sinking ship.... more » | Other threads
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amy iorio
Yahoo GM not expecting, just parking like she is
Now we know why Yahoo News general manager Amy Iorio surrounds herself with family at work. She's low on friends. That's sometimes what happens when you make a habit of parking in the spot Yahoo reserves for expectant mothers, as a tipster alleges Iorio did until caught. Iorio's "overly aggressive attitude" also caused two of Scott Moore's well-liked executive assistants to quit. "Its really sad how he can let someone like her take over a role that Neil Budde was in," our tipster writes. "Like the two even compare."
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Comment by techguy_03: It would be slander if it weren't true.Sadly, it is. Lovely how the senior staff behaves at Yahoo. WAGCurious are... more » | Other threads
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microsoft
Insiders say no way on MSNBC.com sale
Some take umbrage with our report suggesting buying Yahoo forces Microsoft to sell MSNBC.com to NBC. These sources claim MSNBC.com earns more money than Yahoo News and they'd be surprised to see Microsoft divest itself from such a profitable property. And where there's money, there's motive to renegotiate the contract that restricts what Microsoft can do in the news business. More »
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Comment by Ear_Plugs: I did some checking around ... It seems as if Scott Moore's cred is about 100 times higher than Rex's... more » | Other threads
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microsoft
Yahoo deal spells a sale for MSNBC.com
"I shudder to think about a MSNBC.com and Yahoo News integration," a source formerly employed by both companies in the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo merger tell us. The "cultures," she says, "will be really tough to integrate." In that case, we're happy to report the good news: There's no way it will happen. Legally, Microsoft can't keep both news sites, and if it has to choose between the two, Yahoo News would be its natural choice. More »
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Comment by RealityCheckr: You missed the obvious (and far more likely) scenario: NBC holds Microsoft to their joint-venture agreement such that Yahoo! News... more » | Other threads
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yahoo
Microsoft's exiles
Before the formal takeover offer came, an informal Microsoft takeover of Yahoo was already underway, thanks to Yahoo's hiring of several executives from the software giant. Some have even speculated that Microsoft has encouraged this poaching, using its ex-employees as plants to keep track from the inside on Yahoo's progress. And Microsoft has, in turn, hired its share of Yahoos. How will they fare if Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer goes through? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by WillVille: @Owen, I agree Moore stands to gain a lot from this... But don't you think MS will be a little... more » | Other threads
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Vince Broady out at Yahoo
Former head of Yahoo Entertainment Vince Broady will leave the company, the New York Times reports. What? An executive pushed out as a result of Scott Moore's ascension? No way. More »
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Comment by techguy_03: Typical Yahoo behavior. Let's recruit someone and beg the hell out of them to come over...then push them out. Neil... more » | Other threads
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yahoo
We hear that Yahoo TechTicker, the online-video show from Yahoo Finance featuring Valley fox Sarah Lacy and red-hot moneymen Henry Blodget and Paul Kedrosky, is delayed, and won't be airing early episodes next week as rumored. Dammit! Scott Moore, we blame you for this, too. -
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OMG! Yahoo gossips MIA on Semel daughter's ties to Lindsay Lohan
Is Yahoo censoring hot gossip about its Hollywood ex-boss's family? Page Six and other LA gossip rags tell us Lindsay Lohan's lastest BFF with benefits might be none other than Courtenay Semel. That's right, former Yahoo topper Terry Semel's daughter. Reportedly, the pair were seen together at a housewarming party with LA "power lesbian" Jeanette Longoria. More »
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Comment by 0x6772: @dexdudee007: I don't think my decision not to own a television counts as divine intervention. more » | Other threads
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yahoo
Scott Moore hires magazine editor to do nothing
Yahoo has installed Brandon Holley, the former editor of Jane, a women's magazine, as executive producer of Yahoo Lifestyles. This doesn't bode well for her career. When Scott Moore was put in charge of Yahoo's media operations, he said Yahoo would start focusing on mass instead of niche content — news, finance, sports, and maybe entertainment. "Lifestyles is the same — lots of subcategories don't meet the bar." More » -
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He pushes them out, she does the paperwork
New Yahoo Media czar Scott Moore dropped Yahoo News star Neil Budde from his org chart. Rumor has it he ran Yahoo Food director Deanna Brown out of the company as well; when we asked Brown, now at Scripps, about the incident, she starchily declined to comment. Now we're hearing Moore was responsible for at least one more departure as well. More »
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Comment by valleyveteran: As a former colleague of Teresa's from before Yahoo, the scenario described above just doesn't make sense. For all that... more » | Other threads
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Scott Moore edits Neil Budde out of Yahoo News
As we previously reported, Neil Budde, the founding editor of WSJ.com recruited to run Yahoo News three years ago, plans to leave the company. This from PaidContent, the same source which had earlier scoffed at the rumor. Reportedly, new Yahoo media chief Scott Moore never made room for Budde in his new organizational chart. What, Scott Moore pushing out a highly respected underling? Never heard that one before. -
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Yahoo Media holds all-hands as new boss "prioritizes"
If new Yahoo Media czar Scott Moore leaves his underlings short of breath, his boss, Jeff Weiner, doesn't seem to mind. Weiner told PaidContent that during an all-hands meeting today, Yahoo will centralize control with Moore so "he can prioritize. This is the best way to leverage." When the big boss talks about "prioritizing" and "leveraging," that can only mean one thing: Update your resumé. More »
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Comment by exyahoo99: Y! News and Finance were both number one in their categories well before Scott Moore got there. In fact, Rosensweig... more » | Other threads
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yahoo
Scott Moore suffocates his workers
Scott Moore's career is on fire. The already overtaxed executive is taking over Yahoo's media division. His role has expanded to include oversight of music, TV, movies, games, and gossip site OMG. But a former Yahoo consultant worries that Moore's out of his depth. "[Moore] is a news guy," our source tells us. "He's not really a traditional product person. Scott doesn't really understand a lot of what's going on in terms of how things are monetized these days." And when it comes to managing talent, he says, Moore has a habit of sucking the oxygen out of the room. More »
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Comment by Mr.Spin: Hey BeltWay Boy - nice suck-up buddy-boy post from your new gig in DC! We always knew you were a... more » | Other threads
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rumormonger
Is Neil Budde leaving Yahoo News?
Neil Budde, the founding editor of WSJ.com recruited to run Yahoo News three years ago, plans to leave the company, a source tells us. The rumor comes as Scott Moore ascends to a new role, adding Yahoo's entertainment sites to his current news and finance gig. Sources tell us Moore, while he has his hands full, is at least aware of Budde's bad news. Not that it comes at a good time. Says one tipster: "To [Moore's] credit he's a very good news guy, but he also had Neil Budde working for him." Can anyone confirm what Budde's up to next — and whom Moore might find to replace him?
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Comment by search.scientist: looks like it's true [www.paidcontent.org] more » | Other threads
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yahoo
Scott Moore,"capable and well-liked," punished with more work
A former Yahoo executive tells us Scott Moore is "capable and well-liked." And that at Yahoo these days, that means Moore's going to have to take on as much responsibility as possible. Or more. "Lloyd Braun got chewed up pretty good for doing exactly what Yahoo hired him to do," our source explains. "So I think they'd have a challenging time attracting the kind of operational leaders that they need." Given the weight of Moore's new responsibility — he'll be running news, sports, entertainment, music, TV, movies, games, and the gossip site OMG — what does our source say about Moore's chances? More » -
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The internal Microsoft takeover at Yahoo continues
Last we heard from Yahoo SVP Scott Moore, he announced that Yahoo would introduce a singing newsreader for Yahoo News. That plan, possibly a joke gone awry, eventually disappeared. Kinda like the career of his predecessor at Yahoo, Lloyd Braun. But luckily for him, and for Yahoo shareholders, Moore, who's now adding oversight of Yahoo's entertainment properties to his portfolio, is no Lloyd Braun. More »
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Comment by mleaf: It was a golf bet between Larry David and Lloyd Braun - Lloyd won so he got a character on... more » | Other threads
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