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Liveblogging Yahoo’s 3Q Earnings: Busy, Busy, Busy (So Go Away, Tim Armstrong!)

Kara Swisher in News on October 19, 2010 at 2:12 pm PT

Here we go with the Yahoo third-quarter earnings call starring CEO Carol Bartz, who has some–in the immortal words of Ricky Ricardo–‘splaining to do. Yahoo turned in a much-needed solid quarterly earnings report, with slightly better-than-expected earnings, although still weak revenues. CEO Carol Bartz sounded subdued and very much on script. Probably a good idea, considering!

Ballmer's Not-So-Idle Threat to Yahoo: Do You Feel Lucky?

Kara Swisher in News on June 19, 2009 at 10:06 am PT

BoomTown once asked Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer if the software giant was ever going to be able to catch No. 1 Google in market share in the increasingly lucrative search arena–despite years of trying and billions in investment in its Web businesses overall. “We don’t actually have to catch the leader,” answered the pugnacious tech leader. “We just have to surpass the No. 2 to have a great business.” No. 2 is Yahoo. And now, with a recently revamped search offering called Bing showing some promising signs, Ballmer shot another one across its bow by telling an audience yesterday that he was ready to spend billions more to win the race.