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Roundup: Flickr founders leave Yahoo, ex-Citi CFO raising $3B for cleantech, Microsoft buys Navic, and more

Posted on June 18, 2008

Flickr founders join exodus from Yahoo Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, the founders of photo-sharing app Flickr, a $35 million Yahoo acquisition, have added their names to the lengthening list of Yahoo defections. Kara Swisher speculates that a boardroom brawl is underway at the embattled search company. No word on where Fake and Butterfield will head next, although with any luck it ll be another startup. Another $3 billion for cleantech Todd Thompson, the ex-CFO of Citi, is raising a targeted $3 billion for a new cleantech-focused private equity fund, according to a tipster....

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