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Why Is the Washington Post at the Top of My Facebook Feed Yet Again?

Liz Gannes in Social on November 14, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

After uninstalling and hiding the Washington Post Social Reader App but still seeing stories from it front and center, I asked what was going on, and how I could make it stop.

Yahoo’s Product Runway: Are You In or Out?

Kara Swisher in Media on November 2, 2011 at 10:41 am PT

I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., to check out “Product Runway,” which is the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s attempt to show that it can still innovate.

Yahoo Keeps Up Hiring–Rob Barrett Named as Head of News and Finance

Kara Swisher in Media on May 9, 2011 at 8:27 am PT

Yahoo is on a bit of a hiring spree, picking up longtime Internet exec Robertson Barrett, to run its critical and powerful News and Finance sites. Barrett has held top positions at Tribune Interactive, Time Inc., ABC News, Primedia’s Channel One Interactive and The Feedroom. Barrett worked most recently as chief strategy officer of Perfect Market, a Comcast-backed start-up.

Exclusive: Yahoo News Head Moves to Disney.com, Which Will Get Big Redo

Kara Swisher in News on March 16, 2011 at 3:27 pm PT

Yesterday, BoomTown reported that Mark Walker, the head of the powerful Yahoo News site, was leaving the Internet giant for another company. That company, sources said, will be Disney, where Walker will be leading a major overhaul of its flagship Disney.com site.

Exclusive: After Ad Changes, Yahoo Media Unit Gets a Management Shakeup

Kara Swisher in News on March 15, 2011 at 4:26 pm PT

Last week, Yahoo’s advertising unit got the once-over from its new sales head Wayne Powers. And, this week, its new Audience unit head Mickie Rosen is making a series of executives moves to shake up its powerful news, sports and entertainment sites.

Let a Zillion Users Blab: Yahoo Debuts "Contributor Network"

Kara Swisher in News on November 15, 2010 at 12:01 am PT

Yahoo is debuting a new offering for its hundreds of million of users, which takes the Demand Media model and notches up the volume by presumably allowing a thousand flowers to bloom. Or, more to the point, blab. The Internet giant is “inviting people to contribute to many of its most popular sites with the launch of the Yahoo! Contributor Network, a new platform for people to publish their creative content on Yahoo!.”

New Looks for Aging Models: Fashion Shots from Yahoo’s Product Runway

John Paczkowski in News on September 16, 2010 at 10:59 am PT

“The only worse thing than being talked about is not being talked about.” That quip fired off recently by Ironfire Capital founder and former dissident Yahoo investor Eric Jackson pretty much sums up the state of affairs at the company, which seems to be losing relevance almost as quickly as it’s losing talent.

What if Facebook Ever Got Serious About Becoming a News Aggregation Vampire? Well, It Would Be a Sparkly One!

Kara Swisher in News on February 4, 2010 at 8:11 am PT

Here are two quotes that got me thinking about what would happen if Facebook–whose user base is inexorably marching toward 400 million–ever got serious about the news aggregation business. While it is not doing that now in any organized fashion, it will be increasingly obvious that consumers are inevitably moving away from the only-search paradigm to that of discovery through social and other jacked-up affiliation networks.

Project Alesia: News Corp.'s Roman Battle Cry–Does That Cast Googlers as the Gauls? (Plus Video!)

Kara Swisher in News on December 23, 2009 at 11:23 am PT

While Internet companies such as Google use baked goods as names for their key strategic initiatives–recent ones related to its Android mobile operating system were called Donut and Eclair, for example–aggressive media giant News Corp. is definitely not going for sweetness in its unusual selection of a code name for its high-profile digital content effort. That would be Project Alesia, a moniker that comes from a vicious siege in ancient times widely considered to be one of the more decisive battles in history. And that is apparently what top News Corp. execs think is the best way to describe their plans for stopping the decimation of premium content in the digital age and transforming their business to take advantage of new means of distribution.