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Facebook Smacks Back at Yahoo With Patent Claims in Counter-Lawsuit

Kara Swisher in News on April 3 at 11:13 am PT

The other shoe in the Facebook-Yahoo patent fight just dropped.

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CEO Thompson Tells Yahoos “Real Change Is Coming” (It’s Exclusive Internal Memo Time!)

Kara Swisher in News on March 15 at 5:06 am PT

The new leader addresses the nervous troops: Once more unto the breach, dear possibly laid-off Yahoos, once more …

For Yahoo (And Me, Too), Time Is Brain

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.

Twitter's Newest Homepage Goes Tweetless

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.

Read All About It! But Don't Watch–The Grammys Tune Out Online

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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Drugstore.com Buys Into Social With Stores on Facebook

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.

Chartbeat Says the Rise of the Machines Won't Be So Bad if You're a Cyborg

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.

Here's Carol Bartz's Internal Layoff Memo to Beleaguered Yahoo Troops

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.”

Going, Going: LimeWire Shutters Online Store, Too

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.

Pulse News App for iPad Gets Social

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.