4 posts and columns on diet

Your BlackBerry or Your Wife

in News on January 11, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

When you’re out to dinner, does your BlackBerry occupy a seat at the table? Does your spouse ever check email before saying “good morning” to the kids? Does your son sleep with his laptop?

Liveblogging Yahoo's First-Quarter Earnings Call: Yahoo Paints by the Numbers!

in News on April 20, 2010 at 1:59 pm PT

BoomTown liveblogged Yahoo’s first-quarter earnings call with analysts today, which started at 2 pm PT. Earlier today, Yahoo said its net income spiked to $310 million, or 22 cents a share, in the period. On the call, CEO Carol Bartz talked about Yahoo as art and about borderline obsessives, like Van Gogh (and BoomTown).

Bing Keeps the Changes Coming–But Is It Working?

in News on November 11, 2009 at 10:00 am PT

It certainly is good to see Microsoft working the innovation thing, especially in the consumer space with its Bing search service. The ultimate goal is to gain market share for Bing, from striking deals with hotter companies like Twitter and Facebook to doing a massive advertising and marketing campaign to making constant feature upgrades. This is one of those weeks for Bing, with the launch of a spate of new features that show a lot of chutzpah. But whether all this will spell significant changes in market share compared to dominant rival Google is still an open question.
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Keas's Adam Bosworth Speaks About New Health Care Start-Up!

in News on October 7, 2009 at 2:05 pm PT

The former head of Google Health, Adam Bosworth, officially unveiled his much anticipated health-care start-up today at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco, showing off a site that will offer step-by-step and personalized “care plans,” as well as many kinds of online tools to better understand the data and tips on how to stay healthy. It’s perfect timing, given the health-care debate now raging in Washington, which is about how people make health-care decisions–or, more precisely, how they usually do not. Here’s a video interview with Bosworth.
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