Kara Swisher in News on March 23, 2011 at 10:20 am PT
At least once a day, BoomTown gets a call from investors, analysts or other troublemaking types–you know who you are!–wondering why Yahoo is still plugging away in search.
With a declining market share in the arena and a search technology outsourcing deal with Microsoft, it’s not a bad question to ask.
But Yahoo begs to differ, introducing a new feature called Yahoo Search Direct at an event in San Francisco today.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 16, 2011 at 8:45 am PT
Twitter’s how-to guide tells buyers how to use its new ad platform. And it tells the rest of us how Twitter’s first real effort to make money is working. (Hint: It’s early days….)
Peter Kafka in Media on December 14, 2010 at 8:16 am PT
You know how everyone you know who owns a BlackBerry is always complaining that they can’t buy and download MP3s from Amazon directly to their phone? Problem solved!
Kara Swisher in News on December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm PT
The marketing of the Oprah Winfrey Network, set to debut January 1, 2011, is definitely ratcheting up.
What will be interesting to see is how much of a digital element there is on OWN, which is obviously heavy on the television shows for the new cable network.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 16, 2010 at 12:30 pm PT
So let’s say you do want to watch Web video from your couch. Who’s going to find the good stuff for you? A new start-up says it can–by getting you and your friends to do the heavy lifting.
James Hookway, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 5, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
The Internet poses a challenge for authoritarian regimes around the world. But Vietnam’s leaders think they have figured out a new way to tame it–by launching their own, Communist-friendly answer to popular social-networking sites like Facebook.
Kara Swisher in News on July 20, 2010 at 8:56 pm PT
Say hello to an innovative new social magazine concept called Flipboard, which is attempting to make the social networking universe more accessible, consumable and, perhaps most importantly, visually arresting via a rich app on the Apple iPad.
Co-founded by longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mike McCue and former Apple iPhone engineer Evan Doll in January, Flipboard decloaked itself tonight, announcing both a $10.5 million funding from top Silicon Valley power players and also the acquisition of Ellerdale, a relevancy search engine for the real-time Web.
Kara Swisher in News on June 22, 2010 at 5:30 am PT
Yahoo’s VP of Social Platforms, Neal Sample, is a very funny guy, riffing on a wide variety of Silicon Valley companies and topics with an easy sociability.
Well, he kind of has to be, given his job as the leader of the Internet giant’s open, social, and publishing platforms.
But can Sample charm users into seeing how Yahoo can still be a big player in a space it has lagged in, by integrating the efforts of other more innovative social networks and more?
Drake Martinet in Media on May 31, 2010 at 1:42 pm PT
Google and Yahoo have tried and failed to make a great question-and-answer service. But start-up-of-the-moment Quora is working on one. And so is Facebook. Can either of them get it right?
Peter Kafka in Media on May 25, 2010 at 3:00 am PT
Will the pay wall the New York Times is building scare away the paper’s natural allies–bloggers who like to point to the site? Only if the paper goes out of its way to scare them off. Instead, it’s trying its best to keep the links coming next year.
