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With No-Yahoo-CEO Pledge, David Kenny Back in the Strategic Fray

Kara Swisher in Media on November 8, 2011 at 12:42 pm PT

What will David Kenny do? Maybe get something cooking in the whole what-will-Yahoo-do stakes, now that one of Yahoo’s more active board members is back.

Potential Yahoo CEO David Kenny Now Much More Available

Peter Kafka in News on October 26, 2011 at 2:34 pm PT

Akamai president David Kenny has stepped down after a year on the job — and in the midst of Yahoo’s CEO search, where his name has come up as a possible Carol Bartz replacement.

Yahoo Bored Meeting? Not This Time!

Kara Swisher in News on April 13, 2011 at 9:35 am PT

Today and tomorrow, Yahoo’s directors are gathering here in Silicon Valley for one of their regular meetings that take place over the course of the year. While board meetings in general are usually pretty dull affairs–and Yahoo’s, in particular, are typically glacial ones–there is a lot on the plates of those with purview over the machinations of the long-struggling Silicon Valley Internet giant.

Exclusive: HuffPo’s Eric Hippeau Stepping Down From Yahoo Board as Akamai’s David Kenny Steps In

Kara Swisher in News on February 4, 2011 at 4:32 pm PT

Eric Hippeau, longtime Yahoo board member and one of its earliest investors, will be stepping down as a director, according to sources close to the situation. In a related move, sources said Akamai President David Kenny will be joining the board of the Internet giant.

Meet the Yahoo Board: Something Old, Something New–But Will They Do Something?

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 Visits the Big Apple Geeks (Plus Martha and Arianna!)

Kara Swisher in News on June 10, 2010 at 10:13 am PT

This week, BoomTown took a big jet plane east to check out the doings during Internet Week in New York, as well as to moderate a keynote panel at the Digitas Digital Content NewFront with media moguls Martha Stewart and Arianna Huffington. While still exhausted from the D: All Things Digital conference last week, how could I turn down such a pairing? I could not!

Ad Giant Publicis Tells Publishers to Throw Bodies at the Fake Web Ads Problem

Peter Kafka in Media on October 13, 2009 at 5:12 am PT

Last month, the New York Times was attacked by hackers who bought fake Web ads from the publisher. And one of the world’s biggest ad companies says that won’t be the last assault. But the solution runs counter to industry trends.

Who’s Still Using AOL? Your Mom.

Peter Kafka in Media on March 4, 2009 at 9:35 am PT

No one you know visits AOL, but 109 million people go there every month. Who are they? Primarily 45 to 65-year-old women, says the ad agency working for AOL.com–which would like the portal’s core site to attract a slightly younger audience.