Lloyd Braun still at Yahoo
Elinor Mills Former Staff Writer
Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service and the Associated Press.
Despite a misguided report to the contrary, Lloyd Braun is still at Yahoo. A company spokeswoman confirmed that the former ABC exec remains head of Yahoo's media group.
It appears that part of a week-old Los Angeles Times article that gave technology predictions for 2006 has been taken out of context and is being posted as fact on at least a few blogs. This illustrates the dangers of cut-and-paste distribution and a blogosphere where independent confirmation of facts is not the norm.