5 Startup Funding Rounds This Week That Marketers Should Know About
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It was a busy week in funding news around marketing-software startups. Here are five players getting an influx of cash that brand-minded folks should keep an eye on:
Guggenheim Digital Media Buys Remaining Stake in Backstage, Sonic Bids
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Guggenheim Digital Media announced that it has acquired the stake it didn’t own in Backstage and Sonic Bids and combined them with Billboard to create a larger Billboard Group.
For Yahoo’s Mayer, Size Does Matter
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call that she was eyeballing relatively small acquisitions, describing potential deals as “something in the size and scale of double-digit [...]
Big Questions Hang Over Yahoo at CES
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CES isn’t just a critical time for TV manufacturers, tablet companies and electronic roller skate inventors to lay out their wares for the year. It’s also turning out to be [...]
Yahoo to Lose Revenue Head Michael Barrett
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Ever since Marissa Mayer was announced as Yahoo’s new CEO in July, questions have turned to the status of chief revenue officer Michael Barrett, whom interim CEO Ross Levinsohn had [...]
After Losing CEO Post, Levinsohn Leaves Yahoo
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Ross Levinsohn lost the Yahoo CEO gig after serving as interim chief following Scott Thompson’s ouster. Now Yahoo is losing Levinsohn, as first reported by AllThingsD.