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Missed MTV’s Movie Awards? The Web Has Collected All the F-Bombs You Want.

Peter Kafka in Media on June 7, 2010 at 4:58 am PT

Big live events are supposed to be the one thing that pulls you away from your computer and toward your TV. But if you’re so inclined, the Web works as a very good substitute for things like last night’s MTV Movie Awards: Twitter tells you what you’re missing, and you can find the relevant clips later, on your own time.

Bartz is Keynoting CES? Are They Putting Her on Five-Second Delay?

John Paczkowski in News on October 13, 2009 at 11:09 am PT

Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s all caps CEO has been tapped to deliver a keynote address at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. What’s Yahoo got to tout at a consumer electronics showcase? Could be an update to Connected TV, the same Internet-to-television platform the company debuted at CES last year.

Microsoft Pleased With Response to Yahoo HotJobs Ads

John Paczkowski in News on June 23, 2009 at 4:00 pm PT

Microsoft may have failed in its bid to acquire Yahoo last year, but it hasn’t failed in its bid to acquire some of the company’s talent. Between November 2008 and March 2009, Redmond hired away five Yahoo veterans. Now comes word that it’s picked up three more.

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: The Full D7 Session (Unexpurgated!)

Kara Swisher in D7 on June 18, 2009 at 4:55 pm PT

Yes, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz did indeed drop the F-bomb on BoomTown quite expertly in an onstage interview at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference recently–and, yes, it was both expected and enjoyable. (In this picture, she is clearly trying to hypnotize me with her stare.) But that’s not all the voluble leader of the long-troubled Internet company said in what was a sassy, funny and very lively session at D7, where she talked about a lot of topics, from Microsoft to Google to the state of the advertising market in the weak economy.

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: The Full D7 Session (Unexpurgated!)

Kara Swisher in D7 on June 16, 2009 at 7:51 am PT

Yes, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz did indeed drop the F-bomb on BoomTown quite expertly in an onstage interview at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference recently–and, yes, it was both expected and enjoyable. (In this picture, she is clearly trying to hypnotize me with her stare.) But that’s not all the voluble leader of the long-troubled Internet company said in what was a sassy, funny and very lively session at D7, where she talked about a lot of topics, from Microsoft to Google to the state of the advertising market in the weak economy.

The Curse Heard Round the Globe–Well, Actually, Just the Web, But It's a Start for Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News on June 3, 2009 at 7:00 am PT

San Jose Mercury News columnist Chris O’Brien made a lot of humorous hay at the expense of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz yesterday, in a joke piece called: “Bartz Unveils New &*%! Strategy for Yahoo.” O’Brien cleverly created a fictional transcript of a Yahoo staff meeting where Bartz–by now, well-known for her salty language–lets loose in an address about just how sick she was of competitors getting all the good press: “So we’re re-branding the company around excessive use of profanity. Our new marketing slogan will be, ‘Yahoo, (expletive) yeah!’” Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

D7: The Conference in Quotes

John Paczkowski in D7 on May 29, 2009 at 12:00 am PT

Like last year’s D6 conference, this year’s D7 has had its share of memorable lines. Here’s a selection of some of the better ones, including this quip from Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: “You can’t take nine women and make a baby in the month; there is a process.”

D7 Video: By Popular Demand, Carol Bartz Sound Bites

Beth Callaghan in D7 on May 28, 2009 at 9:40 am PT

We’ve had many requests, naturally, for video of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz’s appearance onstage at D7 yesterday–especially for the F-bomb segment. So we’ve pulled out six highlights of particular interest and will publish them in this post. First up, by popular demand…

D7 Video: Carol Bartz, Live and (Really) Uncensored

Beth Callaghan in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 11:27 am PT

Update: R-rated version live now! Earlier in the day, Robert Thomson joked about an 18-second expletive delay for Carol Bartz. “Do you want me to say something naughty now?” she quips as she takes the stage. She does end up dropping the much anticipated f-bomb, but much later in the interview–right before patting Kara on the knee with the disclaimer: “Don’t worry, it didn’t mean anything.”

Liveblogging the Microsoft Earnings Call: Glum Chris at the Recessiondome

Kara Swisher in News on April 23, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

Well, despite the news being as bad at Microsoft as it was at Yahoo earlier this week, the conference call after the software giant released its third-quarter earnings was 100 percent less naughty and 200 percent more glum. In other words, while there were no F-bombs dropped, there were lots of E-bombs–as in econalypse. Here’s BoomTown’s liveblogging of the call–featuring the software giant’s semi-apocalyptic CFO, Chris Liddell.