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Voices

Adjusted for Reality, Neither Rackspace Nor Equinix Shine

Tiernan Ray, Reporter, Barron's in Voices on February 18 at 7:00 am PT

We learned during the dot-com boom, and the subsequent bust, that it takes real money to build the Internet, meaning that the growth of online advertising, e-commerce, social networking, and all the rest doesn’t offer a magic formula for profit.

Hall Pass: Yahoo Meets Lackluster Expectations in Third Quarter, As Investors Focus on Mayer’s Plans for What’s Next

Kara Swisher in News on October 22, 2012 at 1:26 pm PT

Investors turn their lonely eyes to Marissa’s plan for revival.

Dear Internet: Where Should I Live?

Lauren Goode in Product Reviews on August 27, 2012 at 6:00 am PT

The economy has altered the American dream of owning homes, cars and white picket fences. Here are three sites for the perpetually moving.

Searching for Market Share: Google Up, Microsoft’s Bing Up, Yahoo … Not Up

Kara Swisher in News on March 9, 2012 at 6:00 am PT

What goes up must come down.

Most Smartphone Owners Are Between 25 and 34 Years Old (And Here’s How Much Money They Make)

Lauren Goode in Mobile on February 20, 2012 at 7:59 pm PT

This just in! Young people own smartphones — though their wealthy elders are catching up.

Yahoo’s China Settlement Fails to Stem Its Stock Decline

Kara Swisher in News on July 31, 2011 at 12:48 pm PT

You would think the settlement of a major dispute would goose the stock of a company, but Yahoo’s deal with its Chinese partner Alibaba Group on Friday did exactly the opposite.

China Solution: Yahoo, SoftBank and Alibaba Reach Agreement

Kara Swisher in News on July 29, 2011 at 4:50 am PT

Yahoo, SoftBank and Alibaba have reached an agreement in their contentious dispute around the Alipay payments unit.

Voices

Cybercrooks Digging for Tax Data

Michael Hickins, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 11, 2011 at 1:56 pm PT

It’s tax season, which means cyber-thieves are trawling the Web and sending counterfeit email in the hopes of snaring your personal tax data. And they’ve created websites with reasonable-seeming addresses and legitimate-seeming emails in order to lure unsuspecting citizens into clicking on the wrong link or downloading a virus-laden PDF.

Got Broadband? Not Sure? There's a Map for That.

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 17, 2011 at 2:30 pm PT

It took two years and $350 million, but America now has a detailed map showing where all its broadband Internet connections are and where they are not.

News Byte

Amazon Says Kindle Book Sales Have Overtaken Paperback Sales

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 27, 2011 at 1:05 pm PT

Amazon.com announced fourth-quarter financial results today, saying it hit two milestones: It had its first $10 billion quarter, and its Kindle book sales had overtaken paperback books as the most popular format on the giant bookseller’s site. Since the beginning of the year, it has sold 115 Kindle books for every 100 paperbacks sold (not including free books). During the busy holiday quarter, net income jumped eight percent to $416 million on a 36 percent increase in sales, compared with the previous year’s period. Revenues totaled $12.95 billion, which fell short of the $12.99 billion analysts were expecting, according to Thomson Reuters.