Kara Swisher in News on November 23, 2011 at 2:38 pm PT
Yahoo has about 30 working days to make what has to be a complex and multiparty deal, in an effort that is akin to herding cats.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 6, 2011 at 3:52 am PT
Twitter is still trying to figure out the best way to explain to mainstream users what it does. The newest approach: Stop showing off examples of what it actually does.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 14, 2011 at 4:27 am PT
The Grammys generated a flurry of online interest last night, but the music industry’s biggest event of the year is AWOL this morning. Opportunity wasted.
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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 27, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
Drugstore.com and its subsidiary site,
Beauty.com,
has launched stores on Facebook to allow users to share with their friends what they purchased –from collapsible cupcake holders to Anti Monkey Butt Powder (available in the “hard to find” category). The stores, which are found in Facebook’s apps section, were built by Adgregate Markets’ ShopFans platform. The two e-commerce sites, which collectively have 182,000 Facebook fans, eventually kicks consumers out to their homepage to finalize the purchase.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 4, 2011 at 7:46 am PT
Or why Tony Haile wants you to learn to stop worrying and love data–and pay up for a subscription to Newsbeat, his new analytics service.
Kara Swisher in News on December 15, 2010 at 9:19 am PT
It’s Yahoo, it’s BoomTown and so it’s an internal email memo from CEO Carol Bartz to staff about the employee layoffs at the Silicon Valley Internet giant yesterday.
Said Bartz after the firing of four percent of the workforce of the Silicon Valley Internet giant: “You’ve heard me say before that I didn’t come to cut Yahoo! to greatness. That’s still true.”
Peter Kafka in Media on December 2, 2010 at 10:38 am PT
LimeWire, the high-profile file-sharing company, more or less shut down in October, following a federal court ruling. But the last bits of the company seem to be going away: Its online music store will be shuttered at the end of the month, and I’m told that plans to launch a new music service have been shelved.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 1, 2010 at 3:00 pm PT
Pulse, the visually engaging mobile news reader, is adding a social element today. To date, Pulse (for iPad, iPhone and Android) gave users an easily scannable and image-driven view of their favorite RSS feeds. Now, users will also be able to add their Facebook accounts and flip through material posted by their friends.
Kara Swisher in News on November 15, 2010 at 12:01 am PT
Yahoo is debuting a new offering for its hundreds of million of users, which takes the Demand Media model and notches up the volume by presumably allowing a thousand flowers to bloom.
Or, more to the point, blab.
The Internet giant is “inviting people to contribute to many of its most popular sites with the launch of the Yahoo! Contributor Network, a new platform for people to publish their creative content on Yahoo!.”
Kara Swisher in News on November 1, 2010 at 6:15 am PT
AOL reports its third-quarter earnings on Wednesday, and investors are not expecting much
But that has not stopped CEO Tim Armstrong from using his well-practiced jazz hands over and over to try to create a credible narrative about the long-troubled company.
This week: A new homepage! Here’s Armstrong doing a song and dance about it.
