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No to YESS — Yahoo Employee Satisfaction Survey Shows Morale Morass

Kara Swisher in News on October 26, 2011 at 12:07 pm PT

Apparently, Yahoos can’t get no satisfaction.

Whitman Makes Comms Appointment at HP (We Got Your Memo)

Kara Swisher in News on September 27, 2011 at 7:16 am PT

New CEO Meg Whitman appoints acting communications head as part of new “one-voice” rule.

Exclusive: Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Tim Morse Named Interim CEO

Kara Swisher in News on September 6, 2011 at 3:55 pm PT

According to sources at the company, Yahoo’s Carol Bartz is no longer CEO of Yahoo. CFO Tim Morse has been named interim CEO. The situation around the departure is unclear, but Bartz has had a rocky tenure in her 30 months at the company.

As Yahoo Continues to Wobble, Investors (And Board) Eye Options

Kara Swisher in News on September 6, 2011 at 11:09 am PT

There are increasing signs that the going-sideways situation at Yahoo has become a problem for its board and that outside investors are pulling out their spreadsheets to explore a variety options.

New Groupon Filing: ACSOI Dumped, Revenue and Subs Up, Losses Remain

Kara Swisher in Commerce on August 10, 2011 at 8:16 am PT

As expected, Groupon gave up its controversial accounting metric in a new IPO filing, which also showed strong revenue and subscriber growth.

Yes, That’s Activision’s Kotick in “Moneyball” Movie Trailer

Kara Swisher in Media on June 16, 2011 at 5:37 pm PT

In a surprise cameo, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has gone Hollywood, appearing in a new trailer for the movie, “Moneyball.” Based on the excellent Michael Lewis book about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its quirky manager Billy Beane, Kotick is playing its owner.

Wanted: Groupon COO. Must Like Cat-Wrangling, Lack of Spotlight and International Travel (Post-Samwer)

Kara Swisher in News on March 29, 2011 at 10:37 am PT

Of all the many job openings in tech, perhaps the most interesting to watch will be who Groupon selects as its next COO, after the recent announcement that it was parting ways with President and COO Rob Solomon. Requirements for running the Chicago-based social buying site: epic cat-wrangling of thousands of employees in far-flung locations; deep marketing and advertising prowess; high-level technology, product, mobile and e-commerce chops; and international experience. Also, please stand in the shadows.

Nokia's Stephen Elop Didn't Start the Fire–But His "Burning Platform" Certainly Lights One

Kara Swisher in News on February 9, 2011 at 6:15 am PT

Memo to tech CEOs everywhere: Now that’s how to write an internal memo. That would be the 1,300-word one that Nokia CEO Stephen Elop apparently penned for employees at the Finnish telecom giant, which inevitably leaked to the media. In it, he uses the harsh but cogent metaphor of a burning oil platform to take a bracing opening shot at turning around Nokia.

MSFT's $2.3B Bond Sale: 'Year Of The Shareholder,' Says Bloomberg

Tiernan Ray, Blogger, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on February 4, 2011 at 3:58 am PT

In response to Microsoft’s plan to sell $2.25 billion of bonds in maturities of 2015, 2020, and 2040, Bloomberg’s Sapna Maheshwari and John Detrixhe this afternoon write that the offering signals 2011 is, “more the year of the shareholder than the year of the bondholder.”

Seesmic Raises $4 Million in Funding From Salesforce.com

Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2011 at 5:39 am PT

In an interesting social enterprise move, popular social networking collaboration tool Seesmic is taking a $4 million investment from Salesforce.com, as well as from Softbank. The San Francisco-based Seesmic has one of the top desktop and mobile applications for monitoring a consumer’s various feeds from Twitter, Facebook and more.