Top female executive leaves Yahoo to become Go Daddy’s CTO (updated)

Elissa Murphy, Yahoo's VP of engineering for cloud services, is the second employee in two weeks to leave Yahoo to work for Blake Irving, Yahoo's former CPO who now heads up Go Daddy.

Intuit and LinkedIn team up to help small businesses compete for talent (exclusive)

The initiative, known as "Hire Smart," kicks off with a free event featuring a host of speakers, including "Apprentice" winner Bill Rancic, Intuit CEO Brad Smith, and LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner.

Stripe acquires Kickoff (& a top-shelf, three-dude software design team)

Kickoff is a desktop Mac app for group chat and task management for teams. The Apple-flavored product looks and feels at home on Mac devices, but its features are pretty duplicative.

How a fake developer attracted hundreds of emails, bribes, and job offers

Meebo founder Elaine Wherry created a fake JavaScript engineer named Pete London to attract the best recruiters in Silicon Valley.

Facebook’s shopping spree continues with Lightbox acqui-hire

It’s not an acquisition per se, but Facebook has just snapped up the seven-person team behind photo-sharing app Lightbox.

And yes, Lightbox is another mobile-focused company — the latest in a string of mobile acquisitions by the social network.

As …

Skype exec flies the coop to join Urban Airship

Urban Airship has robbed Skype of some serious executive talent.

Christopher Dean, formerly Skype’s chief strategy officer and the company’s global business development head, will now be Urban Airship’s chief revenue officer.

At Portland-based Urban Airship, Dean will head up …