Kara Swisher in Media on September 7, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
While the Yahoo board has yet to begin a search, I have already been hard at work on selecting the next CEO.
Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 1:10 pm PT
BoomTown scrambled the
All Things Digital jet (aka, United Airlines, Seat 7A) late last night to get up to Microsoft’s big event for its online advertising clients today.
Called “Imagine 2011: Marketing Leadership Summit” and held at its Redmond, Wa. HQ, the two-day event is designed to wow peeps by trotting out a spate of
strategery concepts those who buy advertising on Microsoft’s various digital offerings from its Bing search service to MSN to Xbox to Windows Phone 7.
Kara Swisher in News on October 14, 2010 at 5:15 am PT
After yesterday’s event at which Facebook and Microsoft declared their never-ending love for each other via a search integration into the Bing service of a lot of data from the powerful social networking behemoth, I sat down to talk about it with Yusuf Mehdi, a longtime exec at the software giant.
It is the first sign of a major deployment of a deal announced last year between Microsoft and Facebook.
Here’s the video.
Kara Swisher in News on October 13, 2010 at 11:46 am PT
BoomTown motored on down to the Microsoft campus in Silicon Valley on a fabulously sunny day to liveblog the latest Bing event.
The software giant is updating its search service, announcing deep integration–part of a deal announced last year–with Facebook.
The theme, according to Microsoft SVP Yusuf Mehdi, quoting the Beatles, search with "a little help from your friends."
Kara Swisher in News on October 13, 2010 at 9:15 am PT
Microsoft is holding yet another feature update event for its Bing search service later today at its Silicon Valley HQ.
Online Services Division President Qi Lu will be there, as well as SVP Yusuf Mehdi, for–according to the invite–”a conversation about new directions and future opportunities of search and a demonstration of some new search innovation by Bing.”
Liveblogging to begin at 11:30 am. (Note to Microsoft minions: Donuts,
not cream puffs.)
Kara Swisher in News on June 22, 2010 at 6:00 pm PT
Microsoft is rolling out a new series of updates to its Bing search service, including a deep dive into a media-rich entertainment vertical.
The software company has been pushing hard in the search arena, trying to gain market share from the dominant Google and the No. 2 player, Yahoo.
Kara Swisher in News on October 21, 2009 at 11:30 am PT
Microsoft digital head Qi Lu took to the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit conference this morning, where he confirmed a “strategic” deal with Facebook and Twitter to integrate real-time information into Microsoft’s Bing search service.
BoomTown broke the news of those deals earlier today.
Top Microsoft exec Yusuf Mehdi did a demo of the new tweet-powered search for Twitter; the Facebook integration is to come later.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 21, 2009 at 8:15 am PT
CEO Tim Armstrong says he’s still overhauling the Internet company in advance of its spinoff from Time Warner, but he has hopeful noises to make about ad sales. He has nothing, however, to say about chats with Microsoft.
Beth Callaghan in Social on August 8, 2009 at 5:48 pm PT
It’s been a long time between weekend updates, and a long week without Peter Kafka, All Things D’s intrepid MediaMemo reporter. He returns Monday, and just in time, too, since John Paczkowski and Digital Daily will be out all next week. Must be August–do Europeans still take the whole month off? Or is that an urban legend? No matter; it definitely has not been sleepy around here.
