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iPhone 4S Headed to 15 More Countries

John Paczkowski in Mobile on November 1, 2011 at 7:15 am PT

Apple’s iPhone 4S is currently available in 29 countries. By the end of next week, it will be available in 44.

Digital's Deadliest Catch, Part One: The MicroHoo Search Integration Team's Nelson and Morrissey Speak!

Kara Swisher in News on July 1, 2010 at 5:30 am PT

After months of trying, BoomTown was finally granted an audience with the two key execs who are now responsible for one of the diciest digital jobs going right now: Microsoft’s Greg Nelson and Yahoo’s Mark Morrissey. The pair’s two-year task is to coordinate the massive search and online advertising partnership the companies struck last year, a job that is perhaps one of the more complex and critical to their businesses going forward. In other words, this effort is essentially the search equivalent of herding cats. Thus, here is the first part of two of an edited transcript of much of my hour-long interview with Nelson and Morrissey, in which we talked about a range of issues from operations to culture to codependency.

Liveblogging the Yahoo-Microsoft Search Deal Conference Call: The Carol and Steve Show Debuts!

Kara Swisher in News on July 29, 2009 at 5:32 am PT

BoomTown was so glad we had this time together with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, just to have a laugh or sing a song about a major search and advertising deal. I liveblogged the conference call, which I updated as it happened. Did Ballmer scream and jump up and down? Did Carol say something naughty? Read on!

Is a Microsoft Search Deal With Yahoo "Ticked and Tied"?

Kara Swisher in News on January 13, 2009 at 1:01 pm PT

Several sources close to Yahoo and Microsoft have told BoomTown that a search partnership deal between the companies is more likely to be signed quickly now that Yahoo has picked former Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz as its next CEO. Such a deal, which the pair have tried unsuccessfully to strike many times, would be a big boost to Bartz, who is coming into a very difficult turnaround situation at the troubled Internet concern. Microsoft has a deal ready, but will Bartz sign it?

Lloyd Braun's Not Going to Take It Anymore: "I Am Not an Umbrella Thief" (and He's Not, Actually)

Kara Swisher in News on December 19, 2008 at 10:16 am PT

There it was again–like the gnarly ghost of Christmas past–in the Los Angeles Times this week. But this time Lloyd Braun wasn’t going to take it anymore. The object of his ire was dropped right in the middle of a blog post about how Yahoo was “reversing its Hollywoodification” at its Santa Monica media unit offices. The piece also included old allegations from a devastating story in November of 2005 about Braun, which made him look like a digital version of Ari Gold from “Entourage.” Unfortunately, as BoomTown has found out, the bulk of those juicy anecdotes about him don’t actually check out. And therein lies a complex tale that still reverberates at Yahoo today.

You Meant "Strengthen Google's Competitive Position," Right?

John Paczkowski in News on June 12, 2008 at 3:48 pm PT

Google co-founder Larry Page recently discounted the idea that a Google-Yahoo partnership would present any potential antitrust problems. We may soon find out if he’s right. This afternoon, just a few hours after announcing the not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper conclusion of its negotiations with Microsoft, Yahoo said it had inked a non-exclusive search-advertising deal with Google that could be worth about $800 million in annual revenues.

You Meant “Strengthen Google’s Competitive Position,” Right?

John Paczkowski in News on June 12, 2008 at 3:48 pm PT

Google co-founder Larry Page recently discounted the idea that a Google-Yahoo partnership would present any potential antitrust problems. We may soon find out if he’s right. This afternoon, just a few hours after announcing the not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper conclusion of its negotiations with Microsoft, Yahoo said it had inked a non-exclusive search-advertising deal with Google that could be worth about $800 million in annual revenues.