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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.

You've Got Labor Problems, Again! AOL's HuffPo Gripe Seems Very Familiar.

Peter Kafka in Media on February 11, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

The good news for angry HuffPo bloggers who want to get paid for their unpaid work: AOL volunteers made the same argument during Bubble 1.0 and ended up winning! The bad news: It took a lawsuit, and more than a decade, to extract the cash. (And the HuffPo writers may not have a case, anyway.)

Facebook Brings Back (Part of) Beacon, and No One Blinks

Peter Kafka in Media on January 26, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Remember when people freaked out about Facebook letting advertisers tell people what you were doing on the Web? Old news! Now it’s a yawn.

ITC Rules Against Kodak Patent Complaint

Dana Mattioli, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 25, 2011 at 12:01 am PT

The International Trade Commission dealt a blow Monday to Eastman Kodak Co., ruling against the company in its patent-infringement complaint against Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd.

Eric Schmidt Lost $300 Million in Google CEO Shake-Up and He's Still Richer Than You

John Paczkowski in News on January 24, 2011 at 9:30 am PT

Google’s just given outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt a $100 million equity award. A nice little bonus, but not large enough to offset the losses he’s suffered since announcing he is stepping down as CEO.

Apple Analysts: Screw Everything, Everything, We're Doing $550

John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 20, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

Evidently a 78 percent net income increase in Apple’s fiscal first quarter was all it took for the market to put aside concerns about CEO Steve Jobs’s indefinite medical leave. Analysts following the company issued a fusillade of bullish notes celebrating the company’s leviathan quarter and raising their guidance for the year ahead. The most bullish target price of all: $550.

Goldman-Facebook Investment Vehicle Already Full; SEC Eyes Disclosure Rules

Liz Gannes in Social on January 5, 2011 at 3:09 pm PT

Goldman Sachs has already received “several billion dollars” worth of commitments to its “special-purpose vehicle” for investing in $1.5 billion worth of Facebook stock, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Night-Table Reading: The FCC's Net Neutrality Rules In Full

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 23, 2010 at 3:02 pm PT

It’s now been two days since the Federal Communications Commission voted to pass its controversial network neutrality rules, and the consensus is clear–no one is terribly happy. Now we have a full text of the actual rules–the 194-page document that lawyers, lawmakers and lobbyists will be combing through in the coming weeks and months.

A Web Ad That Tells You It's Stalking You

Peter Kafka in Media on November 18, 2010 at 9:34 am PT

Web ads that follow you from site to site are both standard practice and potentially disturbing. Not this campaign–it’s aimed at people who love this kind of stuff.

Welcome to ATD: The Very Enterprising Arik Hesseldahl

Kara Swisher in News on November 4, 2010 at 5:20 am PT

And Arik Hesseldahl makes it four. New reporters and bloggers for All Things Digital, that is. The Bloomberg Businessweek writer–based in New York–will be covering the enterprise arena, as well as chips, for us. As most regular readers know, this site has been expanding its staff, adding even more top-notch editorial might to our already terrific work.