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Viral Video: Apple Innovation, Sparkly Vampires and My Stroke in TEDx Speech

Kara Swisher in Media on December 14, 2011 at 10:02 am PT

Here’s a video in which I talk about doing “More” and not less, no matter what.

Not-So-Chart-tastic Picture of Yahoo’s Q2 Display Disaster

Kara Swisher in Media on July 19, 2011 at 3:43 pm PT

Paging Ross Levinsohn — leader of Yahoo’s Americas region and its ad efforts — stat!

Who’s to Blame for Yahoo’s Q2 Revenue Rout? The Line Forms Around Back…

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.

Yahoo Revenues Down Again in Q2, With Weakness in Search and U.S. Display Ad Sales

Kara Swisher in News on July 19, 2011 at 1:19 pm PT

Yahoo turned in another flat performance in the second quarter, with $1.08 billion in revenue, which was slightly below Wall Street expectations. Earnings per share were right on target, though, at 18 cents each, an increase of 18 percent.

Demand CEO Richard Rosenblatt Talks Panda

Kara Swisher in Media on May 9, 2011 at 6:29 am PT

Last week, after he turned in better-than-expected earnings and tried to explain to a worried Wall Street how the search algorithm changes at Google, called Panda, were significant but not devastating to his business, BoomTown had a short phone interview with Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt.

Viral Slides: Play CFO With Microsoft's Q3 Deck

Kara Swisher in News on April 29, 2011 at 2:57 am PT

Yesterday, Microsoft reported third-quarter earnings, which beat expectations, but still had some warnings signs (PC non-growth!). Here the the software giant’s results, all duded up with pretty charts and bullet points to pencil out.

Charting Yahoo's Q1 Search Stumble: The PDF of MicroHoo

Kara Swisher in News on April 19, 2011 at 4:55 pm PT

Earlier today, Yahoo reported its first-quarter earnings, which showed revenue and earnings declines, which the Silicon Valley Internet portal said was due to its search and advertising partnership with Microsoft. Here’s more deets to peruse and numbers to crunch–in order to figure out whether to blame Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer or not.

With David Eun Departure, "The AOL Way" Makes Way for the Arianna Way

Kara Swisher in News on February 25, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Despite all the polite throat-clearing in the various internal memos coming out of AOL today, with a rejiggering of its content management–including the ousting of Media and Studios President David Eun–what really happened was what sources said will be an about-face from a recent strategy of how to run its media business. That is likely to begin with the hip-checking of “The AOL Way,” which many sources tell BoomTown was Eun’s brainchild, once the $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post is completed.

Yahoo's Fourth Quarter "Encouraging," Says CEO; Street Says "Eh"

John Paczkowski in News on January 25, 2011 at 1:08 pm PT

Investors hoping Yahoo might benefit from the same surge in online display advertising spending that drove Google to its recent big quarter are in luck–except for the big-quarter part: Posting fourth-quarter earnings today after sacking one percent of its staff, the company reported net income of 24 cents per share on revenue of $1.21 billion.

Hire Like It's 1999: Kleiner's Doerr Finally Lands Meeker After 11 Years of Trying (and It's About Time)

Kara Swisher in News on November 29, 2010 at 12:46 pm PT

Wall Street’s star Internet analyst Mary Meeker considered leaving Morgan Stanley in New York for Silicon Valley’s Kleiner Perkins 11 years ago. Today, she finally joined the legendary venture firm today as a partner in the digital arena. It’s a much-needed hire, given Meeker’s deep well of experience and the critical need for the still-lagging-behind-hotter-VCs Kleiner to wade more definitively into more current tech trends that she knows well.