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?
Kara Swisher in News on November 21, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
The well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur joins Mike Jones at Science.
Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 18, 2011 at 11:53 am PT
A man who needs no introduction.
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.
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.
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.
Kara Swisher in News on April 18, 2011 at 10:00 am PT
Will Yahoo’s revenue growth drought finally end this quarter?
We’ll see tomorrow when Yahoo reports its first-quarter earnings, after the markets close.
As usual, investors will be looking for some sign that the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s lackluster revenue results have improved in CEO Carol Bartz’s over-promised but still under-delivered turnaround effort.
Kara Swisher in News on April 6, 2011 at 1:28 pm PT
Yesterday, AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group got into hot water after the top editor at its Moviefone unit sent a memo to freelancers it was in the midst of firing, offering them an opportunity to “contribute as part of our non-paid blogger system.”
Today, sources said that exec–Moviefone Editor-in-Chief Patricia Chui–was fired by the company, which is in the midst of drastically rejiggering its stable of writers.
Kara Swisher in News on March 28, 2011 at 2:47 am PT
Warner Bros. appears to be the frontrunner in various talks to buy Flixster, the social movie site, while Internet giant Yahoo has dropped out due to price concerns.
Sources said the reason for interest from the Time Warner-owned studio is due to a spate of recent digital efforts, including its expansion of a movie rental experiment on Facebook.
Kara Swisher in News on March 16, 2011 at 12:02 am PT
Flixster–the popular social movie site whose brands include the Rotten Tomatoes premium reviews site, as well as BuddyTV–is in early acquisition talks with several suitors, including Yahoo, said sources close to the situation.
The price being discussed for the San Francisco-based start-up is between $60 million and $90 million, said several sources, in talks that are “substantive.”
