Yahoo CEO Reviews All New Hires While Apple Hints at iPhone 5 Launch Date

Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer is following in the footsteps of Google’s co-founders by reviewing every single new hire at her company. Meanwhile, Apple makes a fairly clear suggestion that it will reveal the iPhone 5 on Sept. 12, and Starbucks is offering a deal via LivingSocial. Read on for more interesting industry news.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is following through with her intentions to review every new hire at her company, something Google’s co-founders did. This approach has its drawbacks, including the slowdown of the hiring process. (Business Insider)

Apple sent out press invites for a Sept. 12 event. The invitation shows the number “12” casting a faint shadow of the number “5.” An analyst says up to 10 million iPhone 5 sales could be made in its first week on the market. (TechCrunch, CNET News)

Baidu, China’s leading search engine, has launched a mobile Web browser for Android and Windows Phone devices. It features a personalized home page, voice-browsing features, an “omnibar”-like search and URL bar, and an app center. (VentureBeat)

“Social channels provide marketers a wonderful virtual duck blind where they can actually see the reactions to their campaigns and use not just feedback, but direct interactions with their target market, to optimize their approach.” Listening, asking, involving and testing are among the ways to leverage social channels for email marketing content. (MediaPost)

In case you need convincing to register for that SEO conference you’ve been putting on the backburner, this post discusses the reasons why you should go to SEO conferences and expos. Put simply, here are three reasons: networking, knowledge and content/idea generation. (State of Search)

Daily Deals:

Robert Miller, LivingSocial’s head of legal for the company’s international business, has left the company to head to a U.K.-based game developer. (Washington Business Journal)

Starbucks is offering a deal via LivingSocial this week. The deal offers a $10 Starbucks gift card for $5. (Reuters)

CoupFlip, a daily-deals voucher reseller, is expanding into New York and San Francisco. The company buys deal vouchers and pays the seller upfront. The amount is determined based on factors like original value, expiration date, quantity sold and Yelp reviews of the vendor offering the deal. These purchased deals are then put back on the market for interested buyers to consider. (Daily Deal Media)

DealBug has merged with YourBestDeals.com. DealBug offers a daily-deals advertising option that benefits nonprofits and philanthropies. (Kansas City Business Journal)

Daily-deals sites are doing well in Thailand, thanks to a sluggish economy, according to chief executive and co-founder of local deals site Ensogo. He expects the market to grow 110-120 percent this year. (Bangkok Post)

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