I know it's been said to death but seriously tech crunch is like one of those really cheap and inaccurate "magazines" you see (only once staring at the packs of gum wears thin) as you wait in line at the grocery store. Grabbing on to any piece of "juicy" gossip and yielding approximately NO constructive criticism on a technical level let alone a cohesive/interesting economic perspective. Seriously the dude needs to move onto writing trash about politicians and celebrities. No kidding when I read his articles I imagine they are being narrated by that "perez hilton" guy. Same tone and substance.

So true :) When will TC come up with a cute "Brangelina"-like name for Fake & Butterfield - maybe Stewarina? As in "Stewarina are having twins!" "Stewarina are leaving Yahoo!-!"

I have no clue what you are talking about. I suppose that is a good thing :)

It sure is - you must be spending much less time in grocery store queues ;)

I have a friend that works as an engineer at Flickr, and he sent out reassurance:

"These two have been away from Flickr for the better part of a year, being on parental leave - now it's just more official. In short, we've been building cool stuff for the last year without these two officially around, the sky is still up where it should be. ;)"

Yup. (Disclosure: I work for Yahoo).

Consider this more like belated recognition for Kakul rather than Caterina + Stewart's departure. It's really, really sad that they're gone but the talent pool at Flickr is still pretty deep.

And in other Arrington scoops: Aaron Swartz is leaving Reddit.

Yahoo employs over 13,000 employees. 5 leaving in the span of a couple weeks is not a "mass exodus". And if these 2 are to "join", that means that he's calling 3 a mass exodus.

To be fair, the story does refer to "executives". I don't know how many of those Yahoo has, but it will be a small percentage.

I repeat, why is it news that two people who's company was acquired (for cash!) are not staying with the acquirer (pretty sure that's not even a word) for ever and ever? Because some site writes a sensationalist headline about it? Seriously folks, this is really not a big deal.

What does this mean? 1) some of Yahoo's executives wished Microsoft had bought Yahoo or 2) usual brain drain or 3) unusual brain drain

This pair leaving likely means little more than a couple who don't need to work (for anyone) wanting to do something different. They are in a fortunate position where they can. Good for them. They should take a nice vacation.

Well, I can't speak for their wishes about the whole MS thing, but your image of them as money-grubbing traitorous "executives" is hilarious. However, I forgive you, since that's what 90% of Valley people with similar job titles would be like.