With Stock Close to an All-Time High, AOL Tells Activist Shareholder to Go to — Well — You Know!

Actually, it’s “Go to H-E-double-toothpicks.”
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Leave the Gun. Take the Cannoli: It’s Ring-Kissing Time for Ross at Yahoo’s All-Hands Meeting.

I’m gonna make you an interim CEO offer you can’t refuse.
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Groupon Hits the Internet to Make Its Pitch to Investors (Video, Plus Slides!)

Here’s the online presentation given by a well-combed founder and CEO Andrew Mason seeking up to $540 million at a $11.4 billion valuation in Groupon’s imminent IPO.
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Not-So-Chart-tastic Picture of Yahoo’s Q2 Display Disaster

Paging Ross Levinsohn — leader of Yahoo’s Americas region and its ad efforts — stat!
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Viral Slides: Play CFO With Microsoft's Q3 Deck

Yesterday, Microsoft reported third-quarter earnings, which beat expectations, but still had some warnings signs (PC non-growth!). Here the the software giant’s results, all duded up with pretty charts and bullet points to pencil out.

HP Oldsmobiles the Palm Brand

Hewlett-Packard bought Palm for its technology and talent, not for its brand. So it’s hardly surprising that the Palm logo and name were nowhere to be found at HP’s big webOS event Wednesday. Not in the signage. Not in the videos or slides included in the onstage presentation and not on any of the new hardware on display. The TouchPad, Veer and Pre3 all sport silver HP logos and “HP” as a prefix, not Palm.

Yahoo 3Q Earnings Slides: The Good, the Bad and the Revenue Ugly

BoomTown will begin livebombing, oops, liveblogging the Yahoo third-quarter conference call with Yahoo execs and Wall Street analysts in five minutes. Until then, please peruse the slides the Silicon Valley Internet giant has provided.

Yahoo Tops Earnings Expectations, While Revenue Remains Weak (And Outlook Even Worse)

Yahoo turned in a much-needed solid quarter in its third-quarter earnings report, with slightly better-than-expected net income, although still weak revenue. Wall Street consensus was that Yahoo’s net income would rise to 15 cents a share from 13 cents a year ago and that revenue would be a flattish $1.13 billion. Instead, Yahoo’s net revenue was $1.12 billion–which is minus traffic acquisition costs–on earnings of 29 cents a share. But net earnings per diluted share for the third quarter of 2010 included a benefit of 13 cents per diluted share related to the gain on the sale of HotJobs.

The Secrets Behind a Viral Web Hit–And the Huffington Post's Success

If anyone really knew how to make viral Web hits, they’d be really, really rich. But BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti, who helped the Huffington Post become an Internet sensation and launched several Web hits of his own, has some how-to tips.

Wallow in Microsoft's Q4 Glory: The Show-Me-the-Money Slides

As it turned out, Microsoft blew past even the sunniest Wall Street expectations in its fourth-quarter earnings, spurred by a robust PC upgrade cycle. BoomTown was on a plane jetting to Aspen for the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference, so I missed liveblogging the conference call this afternoon (sorry, Frank!). Here are the software giant’s slides of the financial results to peruse at your leisure.