{"id":9999,"date":"2012-04-17T07:04:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T05:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=9999"},"modified":"2012-04-17T14:16:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T12:16:06","slug":"yahoo-hopes-former-paypal-head-will-reignite-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/9999\/yahoo-hopes-former-paypal-head-will-reignite-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo hopes former PayPal head will reignite growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Yahoo\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2002-Yahoo\">Yahoo Inc<\/a> hired <a title=\"PayPal\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1976-PayPal\">PayPal&#8217;s<\/a> former head of products to help oversee its newly-formed commerce group, as the Web pioneer looks for new ways to reignite growth.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo said on Monday (16 April 2012) that <a title=\"Sam Shrauger\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2003-Sam-Shrauger\">Sam Shrauger<\/a> will co-lead the consumer commerce business, along with <a title=\"Mollie Spilman\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2004-Mollie-Spilman\">Mollie Spilman<\/a>, who most recently led marketing in Yahoo&#8217;s Americas region.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement fills an important slot in the management reorganization unveiled last week by Yahoo Chief Executive <a title=\"Scott Thompson\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2005-Scott-Thompson\">Scott Thompson<\/a>, the former President of PayPal, a unit of <a title=\"eBay\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2006-eBay\">eBay Inc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The commerce group is one of three businesses, along with media and connectivity products, that Thompson folded under Yahoo&#8217;s flagship consumer products division in the reorganization that takes effect on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>The commerce group includes a variety of existing Yahoo online properties, including real estate and job listings, and will include unspecified new offerings, Yahoo said.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo, which reports its first-quarter financial results on Tuesday, earlier this month announced plans to layoff 2,000 employees, or 14 percent of its staff.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Yahoo were down one cent at $14.78 in after hours trading on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo Inc hired PayPal&#8217;s former head of products to help oversee its newly-formed commerce group, as the Web pioneer looks for new ways to reignite growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,803,149,2392,147],"class_list":["post-9999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-ebay","tag-paypal","tag-sam-shrauger","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9999"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10020,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999\/revisions\/10020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}