Interim chief Ross Levinsohn looks like he may get the permanent title soon.
Updated at 2:30 p.m. ETUpdate: Hulu says CEO Jason Kilar has "graciously declined" to be considered for the job. Guess it's all Levinsohn now.
News reports said Friday morning that there were two contenders in the running for Yahoo's (YHOO) CEO position. Both are strong leaders with different backgrounds.
The current interim chief, Ross Levinsohn, has been running the company since former CEO Scott Thompson got busted for adding incorrect information to his resume.
Reed Hastings posts upbeat viewership comments on Facebook.
By James Rogers
Netflix (NFLX) investors, after enduring a depressing 2011, are growing upbeat following CEO Reed Hastings' comments that subscriptions are climbing.
The stock surged 13% Thursday, bringing the year's gain to 4%.
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These ailing companies may soon find themselves under new management.
By Richard Saintvilus
Now that we have celebrated U.S. independence on July 4, it's worth looking at three troubled companies that may soon lose theirs.
There are plenty of other companies that are doing well and have solid balance sheets with plenty of cash.
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The product has few drawbacks, but Apple still has little to fear.
By Anton Wahlman, Contributor
The Nexus 7 is here. Should Apple be afraid?
This is a 7-inch tablet made by Asus that is running the pure Google (GOOG) "Nexus" version of Android, and it will be shipping within the next couple of weeks. You can buy it directly from Google for a bargain $199 by going to play.google.com and order it already.
The first thing on the investor's mind is of course: Is this a threat to Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN)?
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Severe weather left Amazon's cloud storage centers in northern Virginia without power, crippling large segments of the web that rely on its digital architecture.
Plenty of people found themselves bored this weekend when a powerful Atlantic storm disrupted Amazon's (AMZN) cloud storage centers Friday night, taking down Facebook's (FB) Instagram, Pinterest, and Netflix (NFLX), among others.
The outages, which sent Amazon into damage control mode for the better part of the weekend, underscores how dependent a large chunk of the web is on the search giant to provide affordable cloud storage.
Here, a brief guide to the Amazon architecture that secretly fortifies the web.
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