3 posts and columns on Dynasty

The Top 10 List for New Yahoo U.S. Head Ross Levinsohn–the BoomTown Rules

in News on October 28, 2010 at 8:30 am PT

Dear Ross: Perhaps more than anyone, BoomTown is thrilled to have you back in the Internet ops game, after several years on the sidelines. Besides introducing an exciting new character and plotline into the daily digital drama set in Sunnyvale, Calif.–kind of like when one of Alexis Carrington's ex-husbands returned after a bout with amnesia on "Dynasty"–it's clear you are not going to be a shrinking violet.

A BoomTown Contest: Let's Figure Out a Name for the New Apple Tablet! (Not That Steve Jobs Cares What We Think!)

in News on August 10, 2009 at 2:29 am PT

Despite the spate of recent rants about all that’s wrong with Apple, the pendulum will swing once again, and soon, once the drumbeat gets even louder for the new digital tablet that is slated to be delivered from on high sometime this fall by–in the most likely and juicily dramatic scenario–CEO Steve Jobs. So, I suggest we move on from the dead-horse issue of the Google Voice app and other sleepy debates to more enjoyable late-August frivolities. Like trying to guess the name that Jobs will ultimately bestow on the new device. BoomTown will start…
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With the Yangtanic Sunk, What Is Microsoft Trolling For Now?

in News on November 18, 2008 at 12:01 pm PT

Well, for sure, Microsoft execs were not doing high-fives after Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said he was stepping down yesterday, as Yahoo execs reportedly did after the software giant abandoned its takeover bid for the Internet giant earlier this year. Well, maybe some small and discreet ones. And while Microsoft will not be making a renewed offer for the company now that Yang will be going, execs for the software giant were burning up the phone wires down to Silicon Valley yesterday trying to make sure it is well positioned to make the deal it does want: A sweeping search partnership with Yahoo to help battle Google.