Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 26 at 6:24 am PT
Autodesk proves that the Mac is a serious contender for running software in the workplace.
Kara Swisher in News on September 6, 2011 at 3:55 pm PT
According to sources at the company, Yahoo’s Carol Bartz is no longer CEO of Yahoo. CFO Tim Morse has been named interim CEO.
The situation around the departure is unclear, but Bartz has had a rocky tenure in her 30 months at the company.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 12, 2011 at 8:38 am PT
Having first brought access to AutoCAD files to the iPhone and iPad, Autodesk says Android access is next, starting this month.
Owen Fletcher, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 26, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
After years of relying on legal and political muscle to fight rampant piracy in China, big software companies have started wielding a new weapon: lower prices. And the early results are encouraging.
Kara Swisher in News on October 14, 2010 at 9:00 am PT
With all the noisy swirl around Yahoo of late–from its executive turmoil to its flat growth to its dashed partnerships in Asia to its brash CEO–its board has been unusually quiet of late.
Comatose, some might say.
But with private equity firms, media companies, Web rivals, big shareholders, Wall Street and others all machinating about trying to grab all or some of the Internet giant, it will be interesting to see if its directors will shake themselves out of their typical comfort zone of inactivity to actually do their job.
Thus, time for their moment in the BoomTown spotlight!
Kara Swisher in News on June 14, 2010 at 7:20 pm PT
Margit Wennmachers, one of Silicon Valley’s leading public relations and communications execs, is joining Andreessen Horowitz as a partner.
Wennmachers co-founded OutCast Communications. The move will make her one of a handful of women at high-profile venture outfits.
At Andreessen Horowitz, she’ll focus on bringing marketing expertise to the firm and its portfolio companies.
Kara Swisher in News on January 4, 2010 at 11:22 am PT
Yahoo is close to selling its Zimbra unit to VMware, according to several sources close to the situation.
Sources said the deal could be announced soon, but the price for the open-source email unit was still unclear.
One source noted that the reason that VMware was interested in nabbing Zimbra was that its execs want to expand “up the stack” from the software company’s position in virtualization.
And Yahoo’s reasoning? The Internet giant has been targeting assets for “de-acquisition” that are not central to the strategies of its new management.
Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 8, 2009 at 1:59 pm PT
Tiger Woods may be losing fans in some quarters, but he has one in Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s chief executive.
“God bless Tiger,” she said during an investors conference Tuesday, for the “huge” uptick in Web traffic he has generated over the past week.
News, photos and other content about the pro golfer, whose personal life has become tabloid fodder since his car accident and cryptic apologies, are contributing to Yahoo’s sports section, as well as news, gossip and the front page, Ms. Bartz said.
Mark Veverka, Columnist and West Coast Editor, Barron's in News on June 20, 2009 at 9:47 am PT
After her two predecessors failed in recent years to counter Google’s conquest of Yahoo!’s once-dominant position in Internet search, or to win over investors, new CEO Bartz brings strong software-engineering and management skills to the job. At her previous post atop Autodesk, she remade the business, sharply boosting margins, earnings and revenues and increasing the share price nearly tenfold.
