Kara Swisher in Media on December 7, 2011 at 9:43 am PT
Still no sale or investment deal. No new CEO. No Asia resolution. And, perhaps most importantly, no clearly articulated strategy going forward.
Other than that …
Kara Swisher in News on August 8, 2011 at 4:41 pm PT
Could the bad stock market mean worse for tech stocks?
Yes, indeedy.
Tiernan Ray, Blogger, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on March 16, 2011 at 10:30 am PT
Shares of Apple are down sharply after JMP Securities analyst Alex Gauna today cut his rating on the stock to Market Perform from Outperform, writing that the crisis in Japan threatens to compound what seems already to have been a deceleration in production at Apple’s main contract assembler, Hon Hai Precision.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 6, 2011 at 7:48 am PT
Good news, right? Yes, but it’s complicated by the weakness of the U.S. dollar.
Kara Swisher in News on November 8, 2010 at 11:35 am PT
BoomTown usually does not get all weepy over the departure of public relations folks at Internet companies, in that cynical I’ve-seen-’em-come-and-I’ve-seen-’em-go kind of way.
But the leaving of Brandee Barker from Facebook most certainly elicited a small single tear of sadness this morning, when she called into
All Things Digital Global HQ to say she would no longer be tossing me her patented–and very endearing–hand-in-the-face “no comment” for the powerful social networking site.
After four long and tumultuous years, she leaves Facebook Dec. 10.
Daisuke Wakabayashi and Jung-Ah Lee, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 28, 2010 at 11:33 am PT
Sharp Corp. and LG Electronics Inc. warned that a glut of inventory for flat-panel display televisions will continue to pressure prices during the critical year-end holiday shopping period.
The inventory build-up of liquid crystal display televisions is the result of a surge in production by global TV makers this year following a period of reduced output in the aftermath of the financial crisis, when consumer spending plunged.
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 September 30, 2010 at 12:53 am PT
Here’s how Yahoo’s top brass and board–with the help of its newly re-engaged crisis-management PR firm, Abernathy MacGregor–are already trying to spin the latest executive turmoil to hit the company:
Trashing those on the way out, to take focus off those remaining who have been just as responsible for driving the Internet icon, and claiming that this is all part of yet another well-planned reorganization at Yahoo.
Don’t believe most of it for a second. Some of it is corporate politics as usual, some of it rejiggering of events, some just not true at all.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 11, 2010 at 4:00 am PT
Google isn’t killing newspapers, says The Atlantic’s James Fallows. It’s trying to save them.
Kara Swisher in News on October 15, 2009 at 10:56 am PT
Perhaps the sides in the ever-escalating war over the Skype deal will work out their differences and settle–which is what should and probably will eventually happen after everyone realizes how stupid all this noisy legal wrangling over the Internet telephony giant is.
But that day is decidedly not today, given a pair of recent big-gun PR hires by parties involved.
