Kara Swisher in News on September 14, 2011 at 1:10 pm PT
AllThingsD‘s Ina Fried and I are being held hostage by nefarious Microsoft PR chieftain Frank Shaw in a soul-sapping ballroom in Anaheim, Calif. — within spitting distance of Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World” ride — for the software giant’s annual meeting with Wall Street peeps.
Kara Swisher in News on September 14, 2011 at 7:17 am PT
Hey, kids, it’s time for the Microsoft Mouse Club at the annual Financial Analysts Meeting in Anaheim today.
Kara Swisher in News on March 2, 2011 at 4:10 pm PT
Microsoft–furious over a recent talent grab of its top advertising exec by Facebook–has been considering a wide range of options, including legal action to block the move, according to sources close to the situation.
While it might not come to that, tensions between the two companies, who have partnered closely in the past, are running high over the hiring of Carolyn Everson. She had been head of global ad sales at Microsoft and has been hired to be VP of global sales at Facebook.
Kara Swisher in News on October 13, 2010 at 11:46 am PT
BoomTown motored on down to the Microsoft campus in Silicon Valley on a fabulously sunny day to liveblog the latest Bing event.
The software giant is updating its search service, announcing deep integration–part of a deal announced last year–with Facebook.
The theme, according to Microsoft SVP Yusuf Mehdi, quoting the Beatles, search with "a little help from your friends."
Kara Swisher in News on October 13, 2010 at 9:15 am PT
Microsoft is holding yet another feature update event for its Bing search service later today at its Silicon Valley HQ.
Online Services Division President Qi Lu will be there, as well as SVP Yusuf Mehdi, for–according to the invite–”a conversation about new directions and future opportunities of search and a demonstration of some new search innovation by Bing.”
Liveblogging to begin at 11:30 am. (Note to Microsoft minions: Donuts,
not cream puffs.)
Kara Swisher in News on July 2, 2010 at 11:01 am PT
Yesterday, BoomTown posted
Part One of an interview with Microsoft’s Greg Nelson and Yahoo’s Mark Morrissey.
They are in charge of a two-year effort to coordinate a massive search and online advertising partnership, the result of a deal the companies struck last year.
Here’s the second part of the hour-long chat we had.
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.
Kara Swisher in News on October 21, 2009 at 11:30 am PT
Microsoft digital head Qi Lu took to the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit conference this morning, where he confirmed a “strategic” deal with Facebook and Twitter to integrate real-time information into Microsoft’s Bing search service.
BoomTown broke the news of those deals earlier today.
Top Microsoft exec Yusuf Mehdi did a demo of the new tweet-powered search for Twitter; the Facebook integration is to come later.
John Paczkowski in News on October 21, 2009 at 11:29 am PT
Here’s official confirmation of the search partnership Microsoft has struck with Twitter, first reported by BoomTown earlier this morning. It’s being distributed as Qi Lu, president of Microsoft’s Online Services Division, presents at the annual Web 2.0 Summit.
