Liz Gannes in Social on December 22, 2011 at 1:00 pm PT
U.S. traffic to Pinterest is up 40 percent over the last six months, according to a new report from Hitwise.
Kara Swisher in Media on November 7, 2011 at 1:43 pm PT
The online social content company did better than expected in the recent quarter, but it still has to prove its model has more lucrative legs.
Kara Swisher in Media on November 7, 2011 at 6:13 am PT
With its stock reeling and some traffic issues, it’s been a tough quarter for the social content company.
Kara Swisher in Media on October 3, 2011 at 1:15 am PT
It’s definitely better than one million!
Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 28, 2011 at 4:30 am PT
To make good on its planned $14 billion investment in a national high-speed wireless network, start-up LightSquared Inc. must prove to the government that its network is perfect, or nearly so, in avoiding interference with global-positioning devices.
Kara Swisher in News on September 6, 2011 at 3:55 pm PT
According to sources at the company, Yahoo’s Carol Bartz is no longer CEO of Yahoo. CFO Tim Morse has been named interim CEO.
The situation around the departure is unclear, but Bartz has had a rocky tenure in her 30 months at the company.
Kara Swisher in News on September 6, 2011 at 11:09 am PT
There are increasing signs that the going-sideways situation at Yahoo has become a problem for its board and that outside investors are pulling out their spreadsheets to explore a variety options.
Liz Gannes in Social on June 13, 2011 at 1:00 am PT
Facebook has reportedly had two straight down months for active user growth, including unusual traffic drops during the month of May in markets where it has been available the longest.
Kara Swisher in News on June 9, 2011 at 10:35 am PT
And then there was one?
According to sources close to the situation, News Corp. is down to one possible investing group in its quest to make lemonade out of the lemon that its Myspace social entertainment hub has become.
In the lastest of many scenarios considered, several sources said its owner, News Corp., will continue to own about 20 percent of Myspace. The main bidder is a dark horse bidding group, which includes Activision Chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick as one of the potential investors.
Kara Swisher in Media on May 9, 2011 at 6:29 am PT
Last week, after he turned in better-than-expected earnings and tried to explain to a worried Wall Street how the search algorithm changes at Google, called Panda, were significant but not devastating to his business, BoomTown had a short phone interview with Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt.
