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By Matt Haber 12:44pm

Yahoo!’s Jerry Yang Steps Down as C.E.O.

Last night, purple-pushing internet company Yahoo! announced that co-founder and C.E.O. Jerry Yang would be stepping down from his management role, which he’s had since June 2007. Mr. Yang will continue to sit on the company’s board and take back his old title (we kid you not): Chief Yahoo!.

Jessica Read More

By Matt Haber 11/13/08 5:12pm

Valleywag to Become Part of Gawker; Editorial Staff Cut to One

At Nick Denton’s Gawker Media, the only constant is change, apparently. Yesterday, Media Mob brought news that the blog network was losing its managing editor and that Consumerist was for sale.

Today, Valleywag, the silicon valley gossip site Mr. Denton launched two and a half years ago (a look back at Read More

By Staff 11/14/06 7:54pm

Gawker Boss Nick Denton, Frequent IM Interview Subject, Explains What He Has Against E-Mail Interviews

AIM IM with [NICK DENTON]
7:35 PM
[THEMEDIAMOB] May I briefly interview you about something?
[NICK DENTON] sure
[NICK DENTON] well, depending
[THEMEDIAMOB] Did you do the Valleywag post about the NYT submitting questions to Google via e-mail?
[NICK DENTON] yep
[NICK DENTON] well, it came Read More

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