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Will Yahoo Be In Play Again? Here's a Few Scenarios (That Could Be More Than Just Scenarios)

Kara Swisher in News on April 22, 2011 at 10:58 am PT

One of the results of Yahoo’s weak earnings report earlier this week has been the renewal of chatter about possible changes in its leadership and even ownership. And continued investor discomfort with its troubled stock price and the level of renewed grumbling by major institutional shareholders is causing some key players to go back to their PowerPoints to reevaluate various options.

Yahoo Bored Meeting? Not This Time!

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.

Nokia’s Microsoft Partnership: Does the New Strategy Add Up?

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 11, 2011 at 4:02 am PT

Nokia has already announced the key piece of its strategy–a shift to Windows Phone for its future smartphones. Now the company is set to talk about the financial implications of that and go through the rest of its strategy, which includes a mix of Symbian and even a dash of MeeGo. Mobilized has live coverage of the event, which started at around 4 am PT, or noon here in London.

Eric Who? Wall Street Says Google's CEO Swap Is No Big Deal (So Why Is It Selling?)

Peter Kafka in Media on January 21, 2011 at 9:08 am PT

Last night, Wall Street yawned at the Eric Schmidt-Larry Page swap at the top of Google. Today, it seems a little more confused about what the change really means.

Accel's Ping Li Compares the Cloud to the Mainframe

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 18, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

If Cloud Computing winds up being the computing platform of the future, it will need a lot of the same pieces that mainframes did. And it’s in those layers where Li looks for opportunities.

The My-Fill-In-the-Space Reset Is Here, as Struggling Social Network Morphs Into Entertainment Hub

Kara Swisher in News on October 26, 2010 at 10:56 pm PT

Empty bracket or no empty bracket: Will it work? That’s pretty much the big question at News Corp. tonight, as its much beleaguered social networking site, Myspace, rolls out a new beta version aimed at shifting its fortunes. And how will it do that? By moving dramatically away from its roots as a social networking site–and far, far away from powerhouse Facebook–and becoming a “social entertainment” hub aimed directly at the Gen Y audience.

Digg Lays Off More Than One-Third of Staff as It Seeks to Cut Costs

Kara Swisher in News on October 25, 2010 at 11:39 am PT

Digg has announced it is laying off 25 of its 67 staffers today, part of an attempt by the San Francisco social news discovery site to rationalize its costs. In an interview with BoomTown this morning, CEO Matt Williams noted that “the burn rate is just too high” for the company.

When You Wish Upon Two (Web) Stars: CEO Bob Iger Talks About the Next Digital Direction for Disney

Kara Swisher in News on October 9, 2010 at 8:04 pm PT

After Disney named two longtime Internet execs–Playdom’s John Pleasants and Jimmy Pitaro of Yahoo–as co-presidents of its Internet unit, BoomTown did a longer interview with CEO Bob Iger about the entertainment giant’s next Web moves to make it both relevant and profitable. [On weekends, we will be re-posting some pieces from the previous week that we wanted to call attention to again that some readers might have missed.]

When You Wish Upon Two (Web) Stars: CEO Bob Iger Talks About the Next Digital Direction for Disney

Kara Swisher in News on October 4, 2010 at 6:00 am PT

Yesterday, after Disney named two longtime Internet execs–Playdom’s John Pleasants and Jimmy Pitaro of Yahoo–as co-presidents of its Internet unit, BoomTown did a longer interview with CEO Robert Iger about the entertainment giant’s next Web moves to make it both relevant and profitable. Hope springs eternal. “I have tried to keep two obvious philosophies,” Iger told me. “First, that our current business not get in the way of adopting new technologies, and, second, that our business belongs on these new platforms.”

No Massive Reorg at Yahoo, But More Exec Departures (Plus the Schneider Goodbye Letter)

Kara Swisher in News on October 4, 2010 at 1:05 am PT

Sorry, folks, but–despite reports–Yahoo will not be unveiling another new organizational structure this week. In actuality, the beleaguered Internet giant is just cleaning up from last week’s shake-up–in which it announced that a chunk of its top media and sales leadership was leaving–as well as settling in new hires made in recent months by its relatively new product head, Blake Irving. In fact, those changes in Irving’s unit have resulted in the departure of two more execs. That would be former SVP of Media Products and Solutions Jeff Kinder and SVP for Cloud Computing Shelton Shugar, who are on their way out.