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Sound Kick: Solid Sound, but a Shaky Speaker

Lauren Goode in Reviews on April 16 at 6:00 am PT

How does a $99 Bluetooth speaker stack up next to the popular Jambox?

To Stanch Layoffs, Yahoo Has Been Shopping Its Ad Technology Platforms to Google, Microsoft and Others

Kara Swisher in News on March 14 at 8:04 am PT

There’s always yet another wacky money-making scheme on the horizon at Yahoo!

Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls “Puzzling” (Including Filing)

Kara Swisher in News on March 12 at 1:15 pm PT

In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive legal attack against the powerful social networking giant for intellectual property violations.

SXSW News: Jerry Levin’s StartUp Health Academy for Entrepreneurs Announces First Class

Kara Swisher in News on March 12 at 11:20 am PT

It’s a nice break from similar groups that back companies designing apps to help people stalk each other at SXSW bars.

So It’s the Kodak Strategy for Yahoo — The Last Refuge of the Vaguely Patented

Kara Swisher in News on February 28 at 6:00 am PT

In poking Facebook, Yahoo might now learn what it is really like to be de-friended.

With Burn Note, Self-Destructing Emails Vanish After They’ve Been Read

Lauren Goode in News on January 31 at 10:03 am PT

A new email service promises to expunge any trace of email exchanges after a note has been read. But, in the age of digital data, is anything ever really erased?

Former Color Co-Founder Peter Pham Heads to Former Myspace CEO’s L.A. Tech Studio (Video)

Kara Swisher in News on November 21, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

The well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur joins Mike Jones at Science.

Former VP and Apple Director Al Gore on Steve Jobs and More: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 18, 2011 at 11:53 am PT

A man who needs no introduction.

Yahoo’s Dueling Internal Memos: Board, Followed by CEO, Spam Employees in Race to Explain

Kara Swisher in Media on September 23, 2011 at 4:17 pm PT

Today, Yahoo leaders — all of them in two different memos — took to the keyboards today to fill their 14,000 employees in on what’s up. Reading them, Yahoos must be more confused than ever now.

Demand Media Beats the Street in Q1 Earnings and Promises to Clean Up Its Content Act

Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT

Demand Media handily beat Wall Street expectations in its first quarter results today, released after the market closed. The company reported revenue of $79.5 million and six cents a share in adjusted net income. Investors were expecting the company to report about $69.6 million in revenue for the three months, with four cents a share in profits. On a GAAP basis, net loss per share was 13 cents compared to 94 cents a year ago.