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Dear Andrew "No Comment" Mason: How About a Comment on That Unfortunate New Beard?

Kara Swisher in News on March 3, 2011 at 10:25 am PT

That Internet sprite, Groupon Co-founder and CEO Andrew Mason, continued in his quest to be the cleverest little entrepreneur on the Web with a very funny post on the Chicago-based start-up’s blog yesterday titled: “No Comment.”

Dell Sales Fall Short, but Profit and Guidance Look Positive

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 15, 2011 at 1:26 pm PT

Dell’s net income in the fourth quarter beat the consensus of analysts considerably, and it said it expects sales to grow as much as 9 percent in its fiscal 2012.

Rackspace Is Not for Sale, but Thanks for Asking

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 14, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Rackspace is one of several companies thought to be likely acquisition targets following the buyouts of Terremark and NaviSite. Ask CEO Lanham Napier about it, and he insists the company is not for sale, but he clearly enjoys being asked.

Yahoo 3Q Earnings Slides: The Good, the Bad and the Revenue Ugly

Kara Swisher in News on October 19, 2010 at 1:54 pm PT

BoomTown will begin livebombing, oops, liveblogging the Yahoo third-quarter conference call with Yahoo execs and Wall Street analysts in five minutes. Until then, please peruse the slides the Silicon Valley Internet giant has provided.

Liveblogging Yahoo's Second-Quarter Earnings Call: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Flat Revenue?

Kara Swisher in News on July 20, 2010 at 2:22 pm PT

After announcing its second-quarter earnings this afternoon, after the markets closed, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and CFO Tim Morse held the usual conference call. Here’s BoomTown’s liveblog of the upbeat performance, which still could not hide the troubling revenue weakness.

Yahoo's 2Q Earnings Expected to Be Good–But Are Big Investors Getting Restless?

Kara Swisher in News on July 20, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

Suddenly–although not entirely unexpectedly–the major investors of Yahoo are getting restless. If you talked to many of them in recent weeks, there has developed a confusion over the stock sitting stagnant in the mid-teens for far too long now, a vague disgruntlement that CEO Carol Bartz has not provided enough of a vision and innovation to turn around the iconic but long-struggling Internet giant, a nagging worry about the continuing departure of top execs and, perhaps most of all, vexation that Yahoo is just too big not to be, well, bigger than it is. But, in the near term, Wall Street is bullish on today’s second quarter earnings report for Yahoo, due after the markets close.

Why $10 a Month for Hulu Is Too Much. And Too Little.

Peter Kafka in Media on April 22, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Why a monthly subscription fee could end up disappointing Hulu’s users–and its owners.

iPad Pricing: How Low Can You Go, Apple?

John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 8, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

The iPad’s lower-than-expected price may go lower still if the device doesn’t perform as well at market as Apple hopes. Recounting his recent meeting with some executives from the company in a research note issued last night, Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope said Apple is quite willing to get even more aggressive with iPad pricing.

Liveblogging the AOL Conference Call: To Everything, Turn, Turn, Turn?

Kara Swisher in News on February 3, 2010 at 6:21 am PT

BoomTown liveblogged the AOL conference call, the first since it spun off from Time Warner. Earlier this morning, AOL reported its fourth-quarter results, whichN beat very, very low Wall Street expectations. And essentially, it was all about turning the Internet icon around. Bottom line: Still turning, but the lid is super-duper tight, folks!