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Exclusive: Yahoo’s Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb Nears Completion

Kara Swisher in News on May 13 at 8:59 am PT

The final shoe — shoe store, really — drops.

FaceTagram? InstaBook? Whatever You Call It, All Your Mobile Photo Are Belong to Facebook (for $1 Billion)!

Kara Swisher in Media on April 9 at 12:20 pm PT

Actually, it’s pretty simple: Photos. Photos. And, oh yes, mobile photos — lots and lots and lots of them.

On Valentine’s Day, Ol’ Fashioned Phone Calls Beat Video Chat for Long-Distance Love

Lauren Goode in Social on February 14 at 7:10 am PT

There’s a reason Stevie didn’t sing “I Just IM’ed to Say I Love You.”

Tobii’s Eye-Tracking Tech Knows What You’re Eyeing on Dating Sites

Lauren Goode in Commerce on February 6 at 8:00 am PT

Men like pictures; women like text. You don’t say.

Pinger Adds Voicemail to iOS Calling and Texting App

Liz Gannes in Mobile on December 21, 2011 at 2:40 pm PT

Pinger today started offering free, ad-supported voicemail on top of its texting and voice call service.

Google Translate Can Now Say “Take That, Siri” in 14 Languages

Ina Fried in Mobile on October 13, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

The company’s Android app, which began testing speech-to-speech translations in English and Spanish in January, now supports a bunch more languages.

Pixazza Changes Name to Luminate, Launches Image Apps Platform

Kara Swisher in Media on July 27, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

Pixazza is dead. Long live Luminate.

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on Women in Workplace: “Don’t Leave Before You Leave”

Kara Swisher in Social on May 18, 2011 at 6:15 am PT

In her second major speech focused on women in the workplace, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told the graduates at Barnard College’s 119th commencement ceremony in New York yesterday not to “leave before you leave.” Her message–a version of which she also delivered last year to an audience at the Ted Women conference in Washington, D.C., in a speech titled “Why We Have So Few Women Leaders”–should be paid attention to in Silicon Valley, where Sandberg is one of the few high-ranking and high-profile women execs.

Video: Pixazza's Bob Lisbonne Talks About "AdSense for Images"

Kara Swisher in News on March 22, 2011 at 12:50 pm PT

Recently, BoomTown took a walk down digital Memory Lane with Bob Lisbonne, CEO of Pixazza, the photo-tagging service that has nicknamed itself “AdSense for images.” That’s because Lisbonne used to be a big wheel at Netscape Communications. We talked about the old days, of course, but more about the new days and his business focused on putting all kinds of advertising within online images.