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Google’s Marissa Mayer tapped as Yahoo’s CEO – @dealbook

Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the next C.E.O. of Yahoo, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and corporate America.

The appointment of Ms. Mayer, who was employee No. 20 at Google and was one of the few public faces of the company, is considered a surprising coup for Yahoo, which has struggled in recent years to attract top flight talent [...]

Google tells Nasa: we’ll save your hangar – if we can park our jets in it

Guy Adams
The Independent
December 13, 2011

When Larry Page and Sergey Brin needed somewhere to store their eight private jets, their first step was, presumably, to enter the words “large aircraft hangar” into the internet search engine they created.

They needn’t have bothered. Whatever direction Google pointed them in, the answer to the wealthy duo’s problems turns out to have been, quite literally, staring them in the face.

A few hundred yards from the [...]

ABCNEWS: Energy Dept. Gives Half-Billion-Dollar Loan to Electric Car Company Building Cars — in Finland

With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United States capable of doing the work.

Vice President Joseph Biden heralded the Energy Department’s $529 million loan to the start-up electric car company called Fisker as a bright new path to thousands [...]

The “Prevaricator-in-Chief” caught lying again about his “facts” in speech

Once again, Barack Obama gave a prepared speech … and once again, he failed to fact-check it first. While extolling the virtues of immigration, the President told a Texas audience that we’d be surprised to find out how immigrants have shaped American lives.  Why, just note who founded some of the leading technology firms:

Look at Intel and Google and Yahoo and eBay – these are [...]