Q&A

Liveblogging the New Yahoo CEO Call: You Might Want to Refrain From Cussing, Scott!

Kara Swisher in News on January 4 at 7:01 am PT

Mind your P’s and Q’s and Y’s too!

Yahoo’s Product Runway: Are You In or Out?

Kara Swisher in Media on November 2, 2011 at 10:41 am PT

I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., to check out “Product Runway,” which is the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s attempt to show that it can still innovate.

Voices

Management Quality Assurance

Ben Horowitz, Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz in Voices on October 5, 2011 at 1:45 pm PT

We can all agree that people are paramount, yet nobody in tech seems to be on the same page with what the people organization — Human Resources — should look like.

InboxQ Inverts Twitter Q&A Product to Help People Find Experts

Liz Gannes in Social on August 26, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

InboxQ will today launch a Q&A site that directs users to experts who might be able to answer their questions, and then gets out of the way.

CitySandbox: Berkeley Lab Launches Q&A Site for Civic Action

Alexandra Chang in Social on August 11, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

Building a quickly changing tool to address slow-burn, real-world problems isn’t a proven model for success — but it is one CitySandbox is attempting to tackle.

Demand Media Q2 Call Liveblog: Spam-a-Not

Kara Swisher in News on August 9, 2011 at 2:20 pm PT

Rachael Ray might dole out spam recipes on Demand Media, but the company said on its Q2 conference call that its business was not hurt by the spam-killers of Google.

Yahoo-Alibaba-SoftBank Settlement Call: At Least It’s Not 100 Percent of Zero!

Kara Swisher in News on July 29, 2011 at 6:01 am PT

As these companies are wont to do in the middle of the night, Yahoo, SoftBank and the Alibaba Group have reached an agreement in their nasty dispute around the Alipay payments unit, and they are ready to talk about it.

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.

Q: Another Q&A Site? A: Yes, Discovery’s Curiosity.

Peter Kafka in Media on June 20, 2011 at 6:23 am PT

Why is a cable-TV powerhouse launching a question-and-answer site? You won’t find out on Curiosity.com. But you will find lots of other answers, some of which come from famous people.

Liveblogging Demand Media's Q1 Earnings: Perky Perfecting!

Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 2:13 pm PT

Today, after Demand Media beat Wall Street expectations, its cheerful execs got on the horn with investors to explain how it plans to beat the Panda. That would be the beastly name for Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm, in order to rid search results of poor quality content. BoomTown liveblogged the event, of course.