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Liveblogging Yahoo's Q1 Earnings Call: Get Me to Funky Town

Kara Swisher in News on April 19, 2011 at 2:21 pm PT

MicroHoo is funky! At least according to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz on the Silicon Valley search giant’s first-quarter earnings conference call about its recent financial performance. Yahoo’s results showed a continued worrisome revenue growth stall, due in large part to a search advertising fall-off, and a still-turning turnaround.

Irony Alert: Microsoft Files Formal Complaint Against Google With EC

Kara Swisher in News on March 31, 2011 at 1:25 am PT

Microsoft’s legal eagle Brad Smith didn’t even bother to pretend the software giant’s filing of a formal antitrust complaint against Google with the European Commission wasn’t a wee bit ironic. Wrote Smith in a blog post late last night: “There of course will be some who will point out the irony in today’s filing.” You think?

Bing Overlord Satya Nadella Promoted to President of Server and Tools at Microsoft

Kara Swisher in News on February 9, 2011 at 8:24 am PT

Satya Nadella, the Microsoft exec who has been in charge of its Bing search effort, has been promoted to president of its Server and Tools Business. He replaces Bob Muglia, a longtime exec who was ousted recently in CEO Steve Ballmer’s effort to shake things up at the company and stress the company’s technical expertise.

Fist Pump! Microsoft Now Powers Yahoo Paid Search 100 Percent in U.S. and Canada

Kara Swisher in News on October 27, 2010 at 7:45 am PT

Microsoft’s adCenter is now officially powering 100 percent of paid search on the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s owned-and-operated properties and its publisher network in the U.S. and Canada. The pair have already completed algorithmic integration of Bing and Yahoo. Thus, they are as tight as ticks–fist pump!–kind of like the JWoww and Snooki of search!

Liveblogging the Yahoo-Microsoft Search Deal Conference Call: The Carol and Steve Show Debuts!

Kara Swisher in News on July 29, 2009 at 5:32 am PT

BoomTown was so glad we had this time together with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, just to have a laugh or sing a song about a major search and advertising deal. I liveblogged the conference call, which I updated as it happened. Did Ballmer scream and jump up and down? Did Carol say something naughty? Read on!

Before Yahoo-Microsoft Deal Terms Are Unveiled, Let's Go to the Videotape From the Last One

Kara Swisher in News on July 28, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

As BoomTown reported earlier today, Yahoo and Microsoft have struck a search and online advertising partnership that sources said will be announced tomorrow. But it is eminently instructive to look at the deal that Microsoft had offered Yahoo almost exactly a year ago, which was rejected by Yahoo in favor of a competing bid by Google. The Yahoogle deal, of course, failed, after regulators looked askance at a partnership of the No. 1 and No. 2 search players. The new deal between Yahoo and Microsoft, according to sources, certainly seems a lot smaller than the one offered last June, although there might be a surprise yet to come.

Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Struck–Will Be Announced Within Next 24 Hours

Kara Swisher in News on July 28, 2009 at 3:27 pm PT

Multiple sources close to the situation said that the online search and advertising deal between Microsoft and Yahoo has been struck and will be announced within the next 24 hours. While it is not clear if the actual papers have been inked or approved by the boards of the two companies, sources said it was a formality and that negotiations are complete on a deal that is less sweeping than originally conceived. In any case, making any partnership is likely to be the cause of much relief at both companies, since they have been trying–without success–to join together to mount a better offense in the search sector against the dominant Google.