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Un-Personalize Yahoo With Its New Editorial Algorithm Visualization

Liz Gannes in Social on February 9 at 12:00 pm PT

Yahoo has built a visualization of its “CORE” content optimization and relevance engine technology, which helps power story selection on its home page and other verticals.

Liveblogging the New Yahoo CEO Call: You Might Want to Refrain From Cussing, Scott!

Kara Swisher in News on January 4 at 7:01 am PT

Mind your P’s and Q’s and Y’s too!

Eric Who? Wall Street Says Google's CEO Swap Is No Big Deal (So Why Is It Selling?)

Peter Kafka in Media on January 21, 2011 at 9:08 am PT

Last night, Wall Street yawned at the Eric Schmidt-Larry Page swap at the top of Google. Today, it seems a little more confused about what the change really means.

Yahoo Search Share Down in Yet Another Month, While Microsoft Bing Gains Again

Kara Swisher in News on January 14, 2011 at 11:44 pm PT

After Yahoo and Microsoft finally integrated their massive search technology and advertising partnership, comScore is reporting that Yahoo’s explicit core search share in the U.S. had declined in December. Which was down from November, which was down from October, which was down from September, which was down from August….You get the picture.

One More Thing: Apple’s New MacBook Air

Beth Callaghan in News on October 20, 2010 at 11:15 am PT

Steve Jobs’s “one more thing” today at Apple’s Town Hall event was the new MacBook Air, or, as he put it, “what would happen if a MacBook hooked up with an iPad.” The quick details: Complete unibody construction, all solid state storage, and there are two models, each with two configurations: an 11.6-inch model with either 64 gb or 128 gb of storage for $999 or $1199, respectively, and a 13.3-inch model with either 128 or 256 gb of storage for $1299 or $1599, respectively.

Google's Victory Dance: Check Out Our Go-Go Numbers!

Peter Kafka in Media on October 14, 2010 at 3:45 pm PT

After showing off financial numbers that blew away Wall Street’s earnings estimates, what could Google do for an encore? Trot out even more numbers, via a tantalizing but not-that-revealing striptease.

Slip ‘N Slide Time: All the Presentations From Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting

Kara Swisher in News on July 30, 2010 at 8:47 am PT

Microsoft had its annual Financial Analyst Meeting at its Redmond, Wash. campus yesterday, where BoomTown liveblogged the morning and afternoon sessions with the software giant’s top execs. And, because it is Microsoft, there were lots and lots of slides to look at, which are all after the jump.

New Intel Chips Could Make Ultrathin Laptops Worth Buying

John Paczkowski in News on May 24, 2010 at 12:01 pm PT

Intel fleshed out its mobile processor line this morning, adding to it a series of low-voltage chips intended for ultrathin laptops. Covering the broad spectrum of Intel’s silicon–everything from the Celeron and Pentium to the higher-end Core line–these new chips theoretically provide double the graphics performance and 35 percent to 40 percent of the computing performance of their predecessors.

Two Microsoft Search Dudes Talk About Bing! (BoomTown's Flip Is Waiting by the Phone for the Google Search Gurus' Call!)

Kara Swisher in News on December 3, 2009 at 5:05 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown liveblogged a demo session Microsoft held for reporters about some new features on its Bing search service, a glimpse at what Twitter and Facebook integration will look like and the debut of a nifty new beta of its online map service. It is still the bazillion-dollar question–and I do mean a bazillion dollars, since that’s about what Microsoft has lost online after many years of trying–whether Bing can gain some truly significant share in the search market and challenge the sector’s behemoth, Google. So, at the event, I talked to two Microsoft search execs–Harry Shum, a corporate VP who is leading core search development, and Brian MacDonald, corporate VP for Core Search Program Management–about their thoughts on Bing so far.