Kara Swisher in Media on October 4, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
A medium-sized online advertising company buys a smaller one.
Kara Swisher in News on August 31, 2011 at 10:58 am PT
MailChimp, the Atlanta-based email marketing service, has bought TinyLetter, which is well-known entrepreneur Phil Kaplan’s most recent start-up.
Kara Swisher in News on July 19, 2011 at 2:02 pm PT
What happened to Yahoo revenue? Display sales in the U.S. gets the blame this quarter.
While coming up with a new thing to blame for Q3, Yahoo execs try to explain it all for you.
Kara Swisher in Social on May 4, 2011 at 9:15 am PT
Online performance marketing firm Efficient Frontier is acquiring San Francisco-based social marketing software and services start-up Context Optional, the company said.
While terms of the deal were not revealed, sources said the price was $50 million.
The purchase of San Francisco’s Context Optional is the first one for Efficient Frontier.
Kara Swisher in News on April 13, 2011 at 9:35 am PT
Today and tomorrow, Yahoo’s directors are gathering here in Silicon Valley for one of their regular meetings that take place over the course of the year.
While board meetings in general are usually pretty dull affairs–and Yahoo’s, in particular, are typically glacial ones–there is a lot on the plates of those with purview over the machinations of the long-struggling Silicon Valley Internet giant.
Kara Swisher in News on April 4, 2011 at 10:14 am PT
While Facebook should not be expecting big bouquets of love from its partner and investor Microsoft, at least it’s not going to be getting legal brickbats either.
According to sources close to the situation, the pair have settled a dispute over the Silicon Valley social networking site’s talent raid of Microsoft’s head of global ad sales, Carolyn Everson, for a similar job at Facebook.
Kara Swisher in News on March 4, 2011 at 12:29 am PT
There’s no question it’s a jarring contrast–layoffs versus champagne and cookies.
But that’s the reality at AOL as its acquisition of the Huffington Post closes this week, even as it sheds employees as part of its ongoing turnaround effort.
Kara Swisher in News on March 2, 2011 at 4:10 pm PT
Microsoft–furious over a recent talent grab of its top advertising exec by Facebook–has been considering a wide range of options, including legal action to block the move, according to sources close to the situation.
While it might not come to that, tensions between the two companies, who have partnered closely in the past, are running high over the hiring of Carolyn Everson. She had been head of global ad sales at Microsoft and has been hired to be VP of global sales at Facebook.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 14, 2011 at 2:04 pm PT
TweetDeck investors are getting some cash, and a lot of equity, in their $30 million sale to UberMedia. So if Bill Gross can build a Zynga to Twitter’s Facebook, they’ll be in great shape. If not…
Kara Swisher in News on January 18, 2011 at 2:50 pm PT
Goldman Sachs seems to have borked the $1.5 billion deal to sell Facebook shares to its rich U.S. clients, because so much information about it leaked everywhere.
That’s right! The loquacious Wall Street bankers are back to take Web 2.0′s social stars public and, of course, are oversharing already.
