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Zynga’s Draw Something Slingshots Past Angry Birds in App Store

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 5 at 6:00 am PT

Maybe now critics will stop saying that Zynga overpaid for it.

WolframAlpha’s Stephen Wolfram Talks About New Paid Knowledge Engine (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on February 15 at 5:05 am PT

The techie’s techie is now offering a pro version, so you can be even geekier than ever.

As Yahoo Ponders Its Fate Endlessly — Selling Off Yahoo Japan Stake Is Suddenly Its Easiest Option

Kara Swisher in Media on November 3, 2011 at 12:49 pm PT

Would the sale of its Japanese asset give the Silicon Valley Internet giant at least one silver lining amidst the many dark clouds?

Asana Launches to Public — Finally Moving Out of Private Beta

Kara Swisher in Enterprise on November 2, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

In Sanskrit, “asana” means “sitting down” and refers to strong but relaxed postures in yoga, presumably so frustrated workers can achieve a digital form of nirvana.

Liveblogging Yahoo's Q1 Earnings Call: Get Me to Funky Town

Kara Swisher in News on April 19, 2011 at 2:21 pm PT

MicroHoo is funky! At least according to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz on the Silicon Valley search giant’s first-quarter earnings conference call about its recent financial performance. Yahoo’s results showed a continued worrisome revenue growth stall, due in large part to a search advertising fall-off, and a still-turning turnaround.

Video: The Pulse Boys-to-Men Talk About Huge Growth of Visual News-Reading App

Kara Swisher in News on March 24, 2011 at 5:20 pm PT

Today, BoomTown braved the floods and skippered All Things Digital‘s S.S. Minnow through a Noah-like rainstorm in Silicon Valley to visit offices of Pulse. Less than a year ago, the nifty visual news-reading app was publicly praised by Apple’s Steve Jobs for innovativeness and slapped by the New York Times for misusing its RSS feed on the same day. Dramatic, for sure, but they have made nice with the Times since then and have also raised more than $1 million in funding and grown to three million users since then.

With David Eun Departure, "The AOL Way" Makes Way for the Arianna Way

Kara Swisher in News on February 25, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Despite all the polite throat-clearing in the various internal memos coming out of AOL today, with a rejiggering of its content management–including the ousting of Media and Studios President David Eun–what really happened was what sources said will be an about-face from a recent strategy of how to run its media business. That is likely to begin with the hip-checking of “The AOL Way,” which many sources tell BoomTown was Eun’s brainchild, once the $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post is completed.

A Challenge for Mobile Ads: Clumsy Clicking

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 27, 2011 at 12:10 pm PT

With 10 billion applications downloaded to Apple’s mobile devices alone, there needs to be a reliable way to monetize that traffic. But there could be a problem: Fat fingers.

Fist Pump! Microsoft Now Powers Yahoo Paid Search 100 Percent in U.S. and Canada

Kara Swisher in News on October 27, 2010 at 7:45 am PT

Microsoft’s adCenter is now officially powering 100 percent of paid search on the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s owned-and-operated properties and its publisher network in the U.S. and Canada. The pair have already completed algorithmic integration of Bing and Yahoo. Thus, they are as tight as ticks–fist pump!–kind of like the JWoww and Snooki of search!