Michelle Yeoh, Simu Liu and Daniel Dae Kim are among the headliners and honorees set to appear during The Asian American Foundation’s Heritage Month Summit and Celebration, as well as its inaugural awards dinner.
All three Hollywood talents are set to join fellow trailblazers, leaders and luminaries, along with more than 500 attendees, between May 5-6 in New York to celebrate the Api community and Taaf’s second anniversary. The two-day event will feature panels and roundtable discussions, tied to this year’s summit theme of “Together We Build,” daytime discussions will focus on efforts to address the rise in hate crimes, underfunding of Aapi communities and representation gaps in media and leadership.
That includes a fireside chat with Barbie and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Liu moderated by ABC News’ Juju Chang, as well as a screening and panel of the upcoming Disney+ series American Born Chinese,...
All three Hollywood talents are set to join fellow trailblazers, leaders and luminaries, along with more than 500 attendees, between May 5-6 in New York to celebrate the Api community and Taaf’s second anniversary. The two-day event will feature panels and roundtable discussions, tied to this year’s summit theme of “Together We Build,” daytime discussions will focus on efforts to address the rise in hate crimes, underfunding of Aapi communities and representation gaps in media and leadership.
That includes a fireside chat with Barbie and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Liu moderated by ABC News’ Juju Chang, as well as a screening and panel of the upcoming Disney+ series American Born Chinese,...
- 5/2/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Yahoo Friday named Jim Lanzone, a veteran tech and media executive, CEO of Tinder and former head of CBS Interactive, as its new chief executive effective September 27.
He succeeds Guru Gowrappan, who becomes senior advisor to the private equity business of Apollo Global Management, which acquired Yahoo and other media assets from Verizon in May for $5 billion. Verizon retained a 10% stake.
Apollo said Lanzone will help Yahoo accelerate the growth of its properties as a privately held company and draw on his deep media experience “to drive the next generation of innovation” across its content and advertising platforms. It said Yahoo intends “to invest significantly” in the user experience and new offerings that can build on its brands in sports, finance, news and technology.
Lanzone joins Yahoo from Tinder, where he has been CEO. Prior to that, he led the digital operations of CBS Corp. as chief digital officer and...
He succeeds Guru Gowrappan, who becomes senior advisor to the private equity business of Apollo Global Management, which acquired Yahoo and other media assets from Verizon in May for $5 billion. Verizon retained a 10% stake.
Apollo said Lanzone will help Yahoo accelerate the growth of its properties as a privately held company and draw on his deep media experience “to drive the next generation of innovation” across its content and advertising platforms. It said Yahoo intends “to invest significantly” in the user experience and new offerings that can build on its brands in sports, finance, news and technology.
Lanzone joins Yahoo from Tinder, where he has been CEO. Prior to that, he led the digital operations of CBS Corp. as chief digital officer and...
- 9/10/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Verizon said Monday that it’s clinched a deal to sell its media assets to Apollo Global Management and related entities for $5 billion. Verizon will retain a 10% stake in the company, which will be known as Yahoo at close of the transaction and continue to be led by CEO Guru Gowrappan.
Verizon Media brands are led by Yahoo and AOL, two companies with a complex and difficult past.
Yahoo was founded in 1994 by electrical engineering students Jerry Yang and David Filo as a website called Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web. It became a portal and grew rapidly during the 1990s, riding the Internet boom, but also the crash in 2001, and had a long succession of CEOs including Yang, former Warner Bros chairman Terry Semel, Caro Bartz, Tim Morse, Scott Thompson, Ross Levinsohn and Marissa Mayer.
AOL launched even earlier, in the late 1980s, and was...
Verizon Media brands are led by Yahoo and AOL, two companies with a complex and difficult past.
Yahoo was founded in 1994 by electrical engineering students Jerry Yang and David Filo as a website called Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web. It became a portal and grew rapidly during the 1990s, riding the Internet boom, but also the crash in 2001, and had a long succession of CEOs including Yang, former Warner Bros chairman Terry Semel, Caro Bartz, Tim Morse, Scott Thompson, Ross Levinsohn and Marissa Mayer.
AOL launched even earlier, in the late 1980s, and was...
- 5/3/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
LL Cool J is planning a significant expansion of his Rock The Bells direct-to-consumer business.
The actor and rapper has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round for Rock The Bells, led by Raine Ventures.
Other investors in the round include venture capital firm M13, Willoughby Capital Holdings (the family office of billionaire Daniel Och) and Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang. Rock The Bells’ current investors include Irving Azoff, Mark Cuban, Egon Durban and Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Rock The Bells is led by former BET executive James Cuthbert, who joined the company earlier this year.
Rock The Bells was ...
The actor and rapper has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round for Rock The Bells, led by Raine Ventures.
Other investors in the round include venture capital firm M13, Willoughby Capital Holdings (the family office of billionaire Daniel Och) and Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang. Rock The Bells’ current investors include Irving Azoff, Mark Cuban, Egon Durban and Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Rock The Bells is led by former BET executive James Cuthbert, who joined the company earlier this year.
Rock The Bells was ...
LL Cool J is planning a significant expansion of his Rock The Bells direct-to-consumer business.
The actor and rapper has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round for Rock The Bells, led by Raine Ventures.
Other investors in the round include venture capital firm M13, Willoughby Capital Holdings (the family office of billionaire Daniel Och) and Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang. Rock The Bells’ current investors include Irving Azoff, Mark Cuban, Egon Durban and Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Rock The Bells is led by former BET executive James Cuthbert, who joined the company earlier this year.
Rock The Bells was ...
The actor and rapper has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round for Rock The Bells, led by Raine Ventures.
Other investors in the round include venture capital firm M13, Willoughby Capital Holdings (the family office of billionaire Daniel Och) and Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang. Rock The Bells’ current investors include Irving Azoff, Mark Cuban, Egon Durban and Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Rock The Bells is led by former BET executive James Cuthbert, who joined the company earlier this year.
Rock The Bells was ...
May marks the start of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and there is no better way to celebrate it than by giving shine to the most influential Asians and Asian American & Pacific Islanders and their accomplishments. The Asian American and Pacific Islander (Aapi) collective Gold House, the group that launched the #GoldOpen campaign, have unveiled its second annual A100 List, which champions trailblazing members of the Aapi community and the transformative contributions to entertainment, fashion, lifestyle, technology, business, social activism and politics from the past year.
Among the honorees on the film and TV side are Golden Globe-winning Killing Eve actress Sandra Oh, comedian and Patriot Act host Hasan Minhaj as well as Crazy Rich Asians‘ Awkwafina and Jon M. Chu. Emmy winning The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story actor Darren Criss also made the list along with master of tidying up and TV show host Marie Kondo...
Among the honorees on the film and TV side are Golden Globe-winning Killing Eve actress Sandra Oh, comedian and Patriot Act host Hasan Minhaj as well as Crazy Rich Asians‘ Awkwafina and Jon M. Chu. Emmy winning The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story actor Darren Criss also made the list along with master of tidying up and TV show host Marie Kondo...
- 5/1/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
In every startup, there comes a time where the people who founded the company need to move aside for a new class of operators better suited for the challenges of another stage in corporate development. Some of the biggest messes in Silicon Valley were created when founders stuck around too long, and right now, it sure looks like we can add Facebook to the list.
But for examples of previous tardy departures, think Yahoo’s Jerry Yang. He, infamously, came back to “save” Yahoo, stifling a $44.6 billion Microsoft offer in 2008, while intimating the company was worth much more. In fact, it kind of was, but that had nothing to do with Yahoo’s core assets. An early investment in Alibaba turned into a 24% stake in one of China’s largest companies. It also shared a stake with Softbank in Yahoo Japan.
But under Yang’s and then Marissa Mayer’s leadership,...
But for examples of previous tardy departures, think Yahoo’s Jerry Yang. He, infamously, came back to “save” Yahoo, stifling a $44.6 billion Microsoft offer in 2008, while intimating the company was worth much more. In fact, it kind of was, but that had nothing to do with Yahoo’s core assets. An early investment in Alibaba turned into a 24% stake in one of China’s largest companies. It also shared a stake with Softbank in Yahoo Japan.
But under Yang’s and then Marissa Mayer’s leadership,...
- 3/26/2018
- by David Bloom
- Tubefilter.com
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