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Actual News on Earnings Call: Yahoo Disables Annoying "Hover" Tool on Homepage, Restructures International Ops

in News on January 26, 2010 at 3:18 pm PT

News was actually committed during Yahoo’s fourth-quarter earnings conference call today when CEO Carol Bartz noted that the company would disable its irksome “hover interaction” on the homepage and that the Internet giant has restructured its international business. Yahoo reported results earlier today that slightly exceeded expectations in the fourth quarter, but it was no blowout.

Liveblogging the Yahoo Fourth-Quarter Earnings Call: Can You Say "Sequential"? (Also Homepage Hover Out!)

in News on January 26, 2010 at 2:02 pm PT

BoomTown, as usual, liveblogged Yahoo’s fourth quarter earnings call, which starred Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz. She was sick in the last quarter, with CFO Tim Morse filling in. Tim tried, but could not channel Carol’s kinetic and sometimes caustic energy. But she returned today, not with a bang, but not with a whimper either.

Bing Keeps the Changes Coming–But Is It Working?

in News on November 11, 2009 at 10:00 am PT

It certainly is good to see Microsoft working the innovation thing, especially in the consumer space with its Bing search service. The ultimate goal is to gain market share for Bing, from striking deals with hotter companies like Twitter and Facebook to doing a massive advertising and marketing campaign to making constant feature upgrades. This is one of those weeks for Bing, with the launch of a spate of new features that show a lot of chutzpah. But whether all this will spell significant changes in market share compared to dominant rival Google is still an open question.
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