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Exclusive: Yahoo’s Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb Nears Completion

Kara Swisher in News on May 13, 2012 at 8:59 am PT

The final shoe — shoe store, really — drops.

Yahoo’s Product Runway: Are You In or Out?

Kara Swisher in Media on November 2, 2011 at 10:41 am PT

I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., to check out “Product Runway,” which is the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s attempt to show that it can still innovate.

Spooking Flipboard: Yahoo’s Livestand — Followed by Google’s Propeller — Set to Launch Next Week

Kara Swisher in Media on October 28, 2011 at 5:35 am PT

Memo to Flipboard, Pulse, CNN’s Zite and AOL’s Editions: You might want to make some room in the crowded news and social reader space — you’re about to get some bigfoot company.

Google+’s Horowitz Talks About Joining Board of Wordnik, as Online Dictionary Site Garners $8M More in Funding (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on July 25, 2011 at 6:14 am PT

It’s the first board seat ever for Horowitz, who has been a bit busy of late launching the search giant’s first successful social networking product.

Godspeed on That Investing Thing, Yertle–But I Still Have Some Questions for Your Boss, Arianna

Kara Swisher in News on April 28, 2011 at 10:19 am PT

Would it surprise you to know that BoomTown doesn’t really care anymore if TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington sidelines as a blogger while he makes investments in tech companies his tech news site covers? Especially after reading his post yesterday that made a good argument about who he is and, frankly, who he has always been. But that does not mean his boss, AOL content head Arianna Huffington, doesn’t have some ‘splainin’ to do.

100 Percent Fresh Exclusive!: Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes in Acquisition Talks With Yahoo and Others

Kara Swisher in News on March 16, 2011 at 12:02 am PT

Flixster–the popular social movie site whose brands include the Rotten Tomatoes premium reviews site, as well as BuddyTV–is in early acquisition talks with several suitors, including Yahoo, said sources close to the situation. The price being discussed for the San Francisco-based start-up is between $60 million and $90 million, said several sources, in talks that are “substantive.”

Spotify Signs On EMI for U.S. Launch. At Least One More to Go…

Peter Kafka in Media on February 17, 2011 at 11:52 am PT

It’s getting closer: Spotify has finalized a U.S. distribution deal with EMI Music. That won’t get Spotify to America–at a minimum, it’ll need Universal Music Group on board as well–but it’s a step in the right direction. Now, about those Apple subscription fees…

Google’s Schmidt: We Would Have Loved for Nokia to Adopt Android

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 15, 2011 at 10:15 am PT

Speaking with reporters after his keynote speech in Barcelona, Google’s chairman said the door for Nokia to create Android phones remains open, despite its partnership with Microsoft. Schmidt confirmed the company talked with Nokia, but declined to say just how far those talks had gone.

June 30 Deadline for Apple Subscriptions

John Paczkowski in News on February 15, 2011 at 7:30 am PT

Apple’s new subscription plan has a compliance deadline. June 30, according to a memo sent to publishers earlier this year.