SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times. The deal announced Monday is Mayer’s boldest move since she left ...

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NEW YORK — YouTube vs. TV? YouTube says the battle — if there ever was one — is over. In a flashy presentation to advertisers Wednesday night, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt declined to forecast that Internet video will displace ...

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The recent decision of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to require all employees to report to the office to work rather than telecommute has set off a lively discussion in the media.Yet many small business owners see the issue of telecommuting as irrelevant.

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Marissa Mayer wants you at your desk at the office.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is so confident it has the Internet’s best email service that it is about to spend at least $30 million to send its message across the U.S. The barrage begins Tuesday when Microsoft’s twist on email, ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo is adding a new director and parting ways with two other board members in the latest shake-up of the Internet company’s hierarchy. PayPal co-founder Max Levchin joins Yahoo’s board while Intuit Inc. CEO Brad Smith and ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo has retooled its free email service in an attempt to regain some of the ground it lost to Google’s popular alternative. Aside from the new look unveiled Tuesday, Yahoo introduced email apps for the iPhone, iPad ...

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Do school systems still need in-house legal departments? Or are they better off taking on legal issues as they come and sending the cases to outside counsel?

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WASHINGTON — Congress unveiled a new search engine Wednesday to help politicos, lobbyists, researchers, students and any other interested citizens find legislation working its way through the House and Senate to become new laws. The Library of Congress says the ...

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How do you deal with office gossip? Do you think you deal with it more as an in-house counsel or while working at a law firm? ...

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