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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
John Paczkowski in News on January 5, 2011 at 2:47 pm PT
Noon ET, 9 am PT. That’s when Apple’s Mac App Store will officially open for business tomorrow,
according to the Loop’s Jim Dalrymple. The service will peddle both paid and free apps for Mac OS X, just as its predecessor, the iTunes App Store, does for iOS.
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!
Kara Swisher in News on October 21, 2010 at 10:44 am PT
BoomTown had to park a badillion miles away from Facebook’s suburban HQ in Palo Alto, and hoofed it there for a press event that unveiled the sFund.
What’s that? A $250 million fund for social start-ups.
Party on.
Kara Swisher in News on October 18, 2010 at 9:30 am PT
Thus spake Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz in her weekly note to Yahoos on Friday, signing off as the Internet giant’s “fearless leader”:
“There sure are a lot of folks writing about us. There are some pretty incredible stories out there. I’m not letting it distract me, and you shouldn’t either.”
Did she just call BoomTown
incredible? Thanks!
