Apollo Global Management Inc. is naming Tinder Chief Executive Jim Lanzone the new CEO of Yahoo, the digital-media business it acquired from Verizon Communications Inc. earlier this year, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Lanzone will succeed Guru Gowrappan, the former Verizon executive who has overseen Yahoo since 2018 and continued running the company after Apollo agreed to purchase it for about $5 billion. Mr. Gowrappan will become a senior adviser… Source link

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Yahoo has hired away Tinder’s top executive to become its new chief executive officer. Apollo Management Group, which recently bought the ailing search engine for $5 billion, announced Friday that Jim Lanzone will be Yahoo’s new CEO as of September 27. He’s succeeding Guru Gowrappan, who has led Yahoo since 2018 and will now shift to a senior adviser role. The move comes just four months after Verizon announced it would sell Yahoo to… Source link

Cryptocurrency bulls are lauding the decision by El Salvador to become the first country to accept bitcoin as legal tender. And one bitcoin fund manager believes other countries in emerging markets around the world could possibly follow suit. Michael Sonnenshein, CEO of Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest cryptocurrency fund manager by assets ($32 billion as of Sept. 3), spoke with Yahoo Finance Live and speculated where such countries could be located. “When we think about where… Source link

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Yahoo, a premier global media and technology company, is proud to return as the Official Innovation Partner of IMG’s New York Fashion Week: The Shows 2021. This fall season, Yahoo has continued to reimagine the future of fashion and scale the consumer experience with an exciting slate of cutting edge tech experiences featuring leading designers Christian Cowan and Rebecca Minkoff. Today, the designers’ show-stopping presentations come to life… Source link

Yahoo breaks ground on immersive NFTs and debuts cutting edge experiences, reimagining the consumer journey for fashion fans NEW YORK, September 10, 2021–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Yahoo, a premier global media and technology company, is proud to return as the Official Innovation Partner of IMG’s New York Fashion Week: The Shows 2021. This fall season, Yahoo has continued to reimagine the future of fashion and scale the consumer experience with an exciting slate of cutting edge tech experiences… Source link

NFTs, meet NYFW. Yahoo is launching its first-ever NFT experience, partnering with designer Rebecca Minkoff in time for New York Fashion Week. The Rebecca Minkoff collection will be showcased in an augmented reality, museum-like experience that viewers can digitally walk through. They can “stop” at an image of a model wearing an outfit from the new line and can bid on the NFT image, and in some cases, the virtual clothes. There will be 15 NFTs total for auction: 10 image NFTs, with… Source link

Google is starting to roll out its new Material You design system to Gmail, Calendar, Docs, and more on Android. The new look will include changes to navigation bars, improved action buttons, and Google’s Sans text for better readability. It’s part of the bigger Android 12 redesign that includes big, bubbly buttons, shifting colors, smoother animations, and some overhauls to built-in apps. The design changes mean Pixel devices with Android 12 or newer will be able to match the colors… Source link

A Jio mobile phone is on display inside a digital store of Reliance Industries Ltd, Mumbai, India, October 7, 2020. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni/File Photo BENGALURU, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries (RELI.NS) delayed the launch of a low-cost smartphone it is developing with Google (GOOGL.O) to November, citing an industry-wide semiconductor shortage. The “ultra-affordable” smartphone, developed jointly by Reliance’s telecom arm and Google, was set to be rolled out from… Source link

Russian tech company Yandex said a cyberattack on its servers this summer was the largest known distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in the history of the Internet. In a September 9 blog post, Yandex said it had identified a powerful new botnet, a network of computers infected with malware and controlled without the owners’ knowledge, that has also carried out DDoS attacks in other countries. A DDoS attack is a hacking attempt to disrupt the traffic of a targeted server or network… Source link

Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service appears to have lost another top video game industry veteran — kind of. Jack Buser, Stadia’s Director for Games and a former PlayStation exec, is moving to the company’s Google Cloud division to head up “Gaming Solutions,” according to a ZDNet report. Google confirms Buser is leaving the Stadia group for Google Cloud, providing this statement to The Verge: Gaming is an incredibly important vertical at Google and we’re seeing huge momentum… Source link