4 posts and columns on candidates

On Twitter, the Elections Are Almost as Big as iPhone 4

in Media on November 1, 2010 at 4:06 pm PT

Lots of election-related traffic on Twitter, but not an overwhelming amount. But the Washington Post, for one, figures there will be a lot more: It’s buying the word “election” as a Promoted Trend on the service tomorrow.

HP’s Own CEO Candidates Unlikely to Seek Freedom After Passover

in News on October 1, 2010 at 9:43 am PT

Hewlett-Packard’s decision to name Léo Apotheker as its new CEO hasn’t gone over particularly well with investors, who dragged the company’s stock into the mud this morning. At $40.50, HP shares are down 3.76 percent as I write this. So how is it going over internally, particularly with those execs who’d been internal candidates for the job?

Help Wanted: So When Is Yahoo Going to Hire a New Head of Ad Sales?

in News on July 6, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

It’s been almost four months since Joanne Bradford stepped down as head of U.S. revenue and market development for Yahoo, and the company has yet to hire a new exec to fill the key job. That’s got a lot of people inside Yahoo a little jumpy, according to numerous sources who have contacted me recently, because of the importance of firm leadership in the premium online ad business in which the Internet giant needs to keep excelling.

Next Time Ask the Evolution-of-Dance Guy or the Numa-Numa Kid to Moderate

in News on July 24, 2007 at 9:33 am PT

In the end, YouTube did manage to do something drastic to the presidential debates–it made them watchable. But last night’s presidential debate–the first to feature questions culled from citizen videos posted to YouTube–wasn’t exactly the transformation of the democratic process some had hoped for. Certainly, it wasn’t the staid sort of affair to which we’ve [...]