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Stern Named Head of New Strategery Role at Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News on May 9 at 4:41 pm PT

The man who has been the Swiss Army Knife of Yahoo will be key strategy guy for Thompson, who clearly wants to do a lot of strategizing.

Voices

Content Is No Longer King

Ben Elowitz, CEO, Wetpaint in Voices on May 7 at 2:14 pm PT

“Content is king” has been a long-lived mantra of media. And in the 1990s and early 2000s, it was true.

As Nintendo Fades, Zynga Continues to Grow

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 27 at 9:48 am PT

For years, the game industry has worried about the shift toward social and mobile from more traditional platforms. But now there’s more than anecdotal evidence to cause concern.

Updated S-1: Facebook’s Yearly Revenue Growth Up 45 Percent, But Down Six Percent From Last Quarter

Kara Swisher in News on April 23 at 12:13 pm PT

Will the new results cause investors to worry?

News Byte

Online Audiences Are Famished for “The Hunger Games” (Though Vampires Still Rule!)

Kara Swisher in Media on March 21 at 9:25 am PT

As of yesterday morning, the movie version of the popular teen novel “The Hunger Games,” which comes out Friday, accounted for 92 percent of total ticket sales on Fandango. That includes 1,200 showtimes sold-out on the online ticketing service, which recently signed various deals with AMC Theatres, Facebook and, earlier this week, Yahoo Movies. Still, the kids-fight-to-the-death film has not yet topped the online advance sales for the three “Twilight” movies or the last two in the “Harry Potter” franchise.

So It’s the Kodak Strategy for Yahoo — The Last Refuge of the Vaguely Patented

Kara Swisher in News on February 28 at 6:00 am PT

In poking Facebook, Yahoo might now learn what it is really like to be de-friended.

Voices

To Mute or Not to Mute? (Comic)

Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on January 17 at 4:41 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.

Microsoft Appoints Online Unit’s Yusuf Mehdi to Run Xbox Marketing (Plus Internal Memos!)

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on November 9, 2011 at 12:49 pm PT

Game on for Microsoft online exec!

Viral Video: Kim’s Fairy-Tale Divorce, Kardashian-Style

Kara Swisher in Media on November 7, 2011 at 12:15 am PT

The reality show famebots are — let’s all admit it — media and digital geniuses at making their traffic-accident lives into audience gold (-plated).

Clearspring Buys Data Science Start-Up XGraph

Kara Swisher in News on November 1, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Clearspring, the social sharing company — in an effort to increase its business as a marketing analytics player — has acquired XGraph, a data science firm.