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It’s Official: Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 Employees — 14 Percent of Workforce

Kara Swisher in News on April 4 at 6:22 am PT

CEO Scott Thompson promises that Yahoo, after staff cuts of 14 percent of the entire workforce, will be “smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require.”

O.co Taps Home and Auto Insurance to Grow Discount Shopping

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on July 18, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Overstock.com has been slowly trimming its name down to a more snappy O.co, while simultaneously increasing the number of businesses in which it operates.

Auto Sales Increase Bodes Well for Sirius

John Paczkowski in News on January 21, 2011 at 2:51 pm PT

Looks like Sirius XM’s run of good luck will continue well into the new year. New-vehicle retail sales data from J.D. Power and Associates suggests an increase in consumer demand for new cars. And for Sirius that means continued subsciber growth–perhaps even significant subscriber growth.

Exclusive: Former Yahoo and Microsoft Exec Dossett to Demand Media

Kara Swisher in News on October 16, 2010 at 1:23 am PT

According to sources, Jeff Dossett–who has held top online jobs at both Yahoo and Microsoft–has taken a job at Demand Media as its SVP of Content Partnership Development. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based Demand, which sources said is now prepping its road show for its upcoming IPO, has been picking up big company execs to add to its roster.

Full D8 Interview Video: Ford CEO Alan Mulally

Kara Swisher in D8 on July 26, 2010 at 9:33 am PT

As promised, All Things Digital is posting the full videos from our eighth D: All Things Digital conference, held in early June. Here’s the last interview Walt Mossberg and I did at D8, but definitely not least: Ford Motor Company CEO Alan Mulally. As you will see, the former Boeing (BA) exec not only rocked his red Ford sweater vest–which I covet–but also talked with great passion about the changes being made at the auto manufacturer.

Ford Launches Voice Control of Apps in Car: No More Phone-Fiddling While Driving?

Kara Swisher in News on April 20, 2010 at 4:15 am PT

Ford, which has been trying to fast-forward its automobiles in the digital space, announced today that its 2011 Fiesta model will be the first vehicle in which smartphone apps can be voice-controlled via its in-car synching software. One issue: Initially, Ford’s SYNC AppLink, downloadable as an upgrade, will work only with Google Android and Research in Motion BlackBerry devices. Still, anything that stops dodos from fiddling with a smartphone while driving can’t be bad.

Microsoft's Bing Makes More UI Changes–And Checks In With Foursquare

Kara Swisher in News on March 25, 2010 at 5:45 am PT

Today, Microsoft’s search engine-that-could, Bing, will begin rolling out another significant upgrade to the user interface seen by consumers. Microsoft also announced it would integrate hot geolocation start-up Foursquare into its maps. Will the moves help Bing keep growing its share?

Attack of the Verticals? Bing Up Again in Another Search Market Poll (Google Still Scary!)

Kara Swisher in News on March 10, 2010 at 10:50 am PT

Yesterday, the monthly search market share numbers from comScore were released, showing Microsoft Bing up, Yahoo down and Google maintaining its dominance. This time it appears to be the verticals that are helping Bing, which has been its strategy to differentiate itself from the Google juggernaut.

Turnabout Is Fair Play: BoomTown Decodes Rupe's Journalism-Is-Not-a-Free-Cow Op-Ed!

Kara Swisher in News on December 14, 2009 at 9:05 am PT

Last week, BoomTown translated an opinion piece written by Google CEO Eric Schmidt and published in The Wall Street Journal that focused on defending the search giant from criticism that it was, well, killing journalism. One of the louder critics, in fact, has been Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp., who has leveled a series of high-profile verbal attacks on Google. Last week, Murdoch published his own piece in The Journal, in which Google was never mentioned by name. So in the interest of equal-opportunity balloon-pricking, I must also render Murdoch’s post through my decoding machine, because it’s only sporting!