Kara Swisher in News on April 13, 2011 at 9:35 am PT
Today and tomorrow, Yahoo’s directors are gathering here in Silicon Valley for one of their regular meetings that take place over the course of the year.
While board meetings in general are usually pretty dull affairs–and Yahoo’s, in particular, are typically glacial ones–there is a lot on the plates of those with purview over the machinations of the long-struggling Silicon Valley Internet giant.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on February 16, 2011 at 3:20 pm PT
Walt answers readers’ questions on starting a blog, sleeping MacBooks and GSM phones.
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Peter Kafka in Media on February 14, 2011 at 6:15 am PT
A tiny bit of Grammy glow for Apple: Last night marked the first time something recorded exclusively for its iTunes store won an award. Train’s version of “Hey, Soul Sister,” which won the “Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals” category, first appeared on the group’s “
iTunes Session” EP last fall. (Though you can now buy the tune on Amazon, too, via a
Grammy compilation).
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Peter Kafka in Media on February 9, 2011 at 2:32 pm PT
More fuel for Twitter’s “we work really, really well with big TV events” pitch: News that the service set a new frequency record during Sunday’s Super Bowl. Twitter says users generated a peak of 4,064 tweets per second at the end of the game, eclipsing the old high for televised sports set during last year’s World Cup. But that’s not Twitter’s all-time record, which was set, oddly, in Japan last year on New Year’s Eve.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 31, 2011 at 8:30 am PT
Android’s gains in the tablet market continue apace with no signs of slowing. In fact, if anything, the platform is growing faster. According to new research from Strategy Analytics, Android’s share of the global tablet market grew 22 percent in the fourth quarter-–a tenfold spike over the prior quarter.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 27, 2011 at 5:44 am PT
The last three months of 2010 marked the last quarter that AT&T had the iPhone all to itself, and the carrier got the most it could out of it: It activated 4.1 million more iPhones, and added a record number of new wireless customers.
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Peter Kafka in Media on January 25, 2011 at 12:52 pm PT
Google plans its “biggest hiring year in company history” in 2011, the company
announced today. That means something north of 6,000 new hires, which was the company’s previous record, set in 2007. And that will push Google’s total head count above 30,000 by the end of the year. Last year Google added more than 4,500 bodies. Bear in mind that many of those came via acquisitions, like the AdMob deal.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 25, 2011 at 7:18 am PT
Which is basically what we heard last week. Still, it’s the first public quasi-launch date we’ve heard from a News Corp. official. Inside: A sneak peek at something the Daily
won’t feature at launch, but will eventually.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 19, 2011 at 10:03 am PT
EMC launched 41 products at an event in New York yesterday, the theme for which was “record breakers.” So the company decided to break a world record onstage while demonstrating “simple and efficient storage.”
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 18, 2011 at 1:29 pm PT
Strong hardware sales, led by the System Z mainframe business, boosted the quarter.
