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Jim Lanzone, president and CEO of CBS Interactive, attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., July 10, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Sept 10 (Reuters) – Dating app Tinder’s chief executive officer, Jim Lanzone, is leaving the company to take over the top job at Yahoo, the online media company said on Friday. Separately, Match Group, the parent of Tinder, named Renate Nyborg as CEO of the dating app to replace Lanzone. Reporting by Eva Mathews in… Source link

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

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (R) and Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh TASS via Getty Images Billionaire Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Russian search engine Yandex, plans to challenge a ruling last week from an arbitration court in Moscow, which bans Yandex from showing results for the term “Smart Voting,” following a complaint from the Russian Federation. The term in question–Smart Voting–is part of an effort by the Russian opposition that has formed around the… Source link

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BRUSSELS, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (AAPL.O) Google unit, Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) are the three biggest lobbying spenders in Europe in a battle against tough new laws aimed at curbing U.S. tech giants’ powers, a study released on Tuesday showed. Such efforts should be a wake-up call to EU policymakers to further beef up the draft laws and lobbying rules, the study by campaign groups Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl warned. The tech sector outspends… Source link

The S&P 500 (^GSPC) has marked a 100% gain since its March 23, 2020, closing low of 2,237.40, closing at 4,479.71 this past Monday. Amid this bull market for equities, however, a recently published State of the Markets report by Wells Fargo (WFC) Investment Institute (WFII) President Darrell L. Cronk lists 10 current risks that could pose a threat to markets and create the “possibility of a near-term correction.” “It is often said that bull markets climb a wall of worry, and today,… Source link

Shares of Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) have had a fantastic run-up in the past five years with a return of 192.7%, far outpacing the S&P500‘s 125% during the same period. It was one of the biggest private enterprises to emerge from the ashes after the fall of the Soviet Union.  The popular search engine and conglomerate has taken countries in the former Soviet Union by storm, accumulating 59.7% market share in the region stretching from Minsk in the west to… Source link

The first half of 2021 brought a crypto boom and bust as bitcoin hit a new all-time high in April and then completely erased all its annual gains (and then some) by July.  Now, as bitcoin (BTC-USD) finds its footing, bulls are reloading for what they say will bring an exciting conclusion in the back half of the year.  Whether or not the world of crypto delivers on the high hopes investors have for what’s left of 2021, Yahoo Finance can at least guarantee that the action is likely to involve… Source link

Google has partnered with Stanford University on a new Autism Career Program for neurodiverse job … [+] seekers. Google Images Google on Monday announced in a blog post the launch of what it calls the Google Cloud Autism Career Program. The Bay Area-based tech titan said it’s designed to “hire and support more autistic talent in the rapidly growing cloud industry.” This effort by Google is the latest in an ever-growing trend, spearheaded by organizations big and small, to… Source link