After missing the first two days of the Allen & Co conference in Sun Valley, Jerry Yang of Yahoo has finally arrived and is being chased by reporters wherever he goes.
Despite the pressure being applied to Yahoo by Carl Icahn and Microsoft, Mr Yang looked pretty unfazed. Read more
It was a fairly public setting but some of the key players in the Microsoft-Yahoo saga still managed to have a very private pow-wow in the Sun Valley Inn late on Wednesday night. Huddled in deep conversation around a table at one end of the bar were Sue Decker, Yahoo’s president, Terry Semel, the company’s former chief executive, and Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google.
Brin’s presence was of particular note, given the search deal Yahoo agreed with Google after failing to agree a purchase by Microsoft. Read more
Are you worried about what you’ve put on Facebook? Concerned that your current – or a future – employer will judge you on some of the personal and possibly foolish things about on the web? You should be.
Apparently 44 per cent of firms are using social network sites to check out job candidates. That was in October last year. And that’s just the ones who admitted to it. Read more
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Richard Waters has headed the FT's San Francisco bureau since 2002 and covers Google and Microsoft, among other things. A former New York bureau chief for the FT, he is intrigued by Silicon Valley's unique financial and business culture, and is looking forward to covering his second Tech Bust.
Chris Nuttall has been online and messing around with computers for more than 20 years and since 2004 has reported from the FT's San Francisco bureau on semiconductors, video games, consumer electronics and all things interwebby.
Maija Palmer has been writing about technology for the FT since 1999 and is fascinated by cybercrime, privacy and all the other issues of the information society. Based in London, she covers European tech companies and hopes that they won't all get acquired by American rivals.
Robin Kwong is the FT's technology, media and telecoms page editor in London. Formerly he was the Taipei correspondent and wrote about the companies that manufacture the vast majority of the world's computers and gadgets. He is interested in the intricacies of the technology supply chain and how China is increasingly changing the tech landscape.
Tim Bradshaw is the FT's digital media correspondent, and has just moved from London to join our team in San Francisco. He has covered start-ups such as Twitter and Spotify, as well as the online ambitions of more established media companies, such as the BBC iPlayer. He also covers the advertising, marketing and video-game industries. Tim has been writing about technology, business and finance since 2003.
