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Confirmed: Yahoo Names PayPal Head Scott Thompson as New CEO

Kara Swisher in News on January 4 at 6:08 am PT

Like I said.

Viral Video: Biz Stone Talks Turkey (And Will Be Partying With Them Too!)

Kara Swisher in Media on November 11, 2011 at 11:11 am PT

Happy Thanksgiving — this time for turkeys and not the people who want to eat them.

Viral Video: Occupy Wall Street Headline-Making

Kara Swisher in Media on October 28, 2011 at 12:58 am PT

This is one of the funnier takes on Occupy Wall Street, looking at how various news organizations come up with headlines about the movement.

AOL’s Biz Dev SVP and Strategy Chief Heads to Spotify

Kara Swisher in News on October 27, 2011 at 12:19 am PT

Top AOL dude abandons ship to head to hot music start-up.

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.

Exclusive: Like Marketing, Yahoo’s Customer Advocacy Org Gets Sliced and Diced This Week

Kara Swisher in News on October 26, 2011 at 12:01 am PT

Change is certainly afoot inside Yahoo.

Who’s to Blame for Yahoo’s Q2 Revenue Rout? The Line Forms Around Back…

Kara Swisher in News on July 19, 2011 at 2:02 pm PT

What happened to Yahoo revenue? Display sales in the U.S. gets the blame this quarter. While coming up with a new thing to blame for Q3, Yahoo execs try to explain it all for you.

Ready for His Digital Close-Up: The NYT’s Media Dude, David Carr, Talks About “Page One”

Kara Swisher in Media on June 15, 2011 at 11:35 am PT

A documentary about the New York Times and its fight to survive the onslaught of the Internet called “Page One: Inside the New York Times” opens Friday. So, it seemed like a good idea to talk to the film’s star, media columnist David Carr, to find out what he thinks will happen to the Gray Lady in the multi-colored digital future.

Yahoo Hires Tim Parsey as Head UX Designer

Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 3:43 am PT

In an interview BoomTown did yesterday with Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving–the video of which will be posted later today–at the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s HQ in Sunnyvale, he managed to actually give me some news to report: the hire of crackerjack user experience designer Tim Parsey as SVP of User Experience Design.

You've Got Arianna: AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million in Cash and Stock, Appoints Huffington Editor in Chief

Kara Swisher in News on February 6, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT

In a bold and definitive move, AOL is paying $315 million, mostly in cash, to buy the Huffington Post, one of the Web’s most prominent news and opinion sites. As part of the deal, Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington–who was derided by some when she co-founded the left-leaning site in 2005 with investor and well-known communications exec Kenneth Lerer–will become editor in chief of a new unit that has purview over all of AOL content properties. The deal was signed just this afternoon.