YouTube wooed Yahoo's Gideo Yu as CFO in move toward IPO. It's either a news item or a posthumous Seuss book. [Search Engine Journal]
How attractive is a Viacom merger to Yahoo CEO Terry Semel? And does it have anything to do with that recent meeting between Semel and Tom Cruise, who just got booted from Viacom property Paramount? Is Viacom cockblocking Cruise from Yahoo, or is this a Scientologist takeover? [MarketWatch]
Former Windows Vista czar Brian Valentine is headed to Amazon to play Senior VP. Microsoft says Vista "remains on track" ("on track" here meaning "two years late"). [Seattle P-I]
