Kara Swisher in News on February 22, 2010 at 3:22 am PT
Even the Justice Department gets it.
It said the MicroHoo deal is pretty much about catching Google.
But with a combined market share at less than half of Google’s, of course, that is an awfully tall marching order for the search and online advertising partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo, which just got the government’s seal of approval.
John Paczkowski in News on February 12, 2010 at 1:15 pm PT
Microsoft will soon be one step closer to becoming the exclusive provider of search on Yahoo. The European Commission is preparing to green-light the landmark deal. “I expect clearance without any concessions next Friday,” sources familiar with the situation tell Reuters.
Kara Swisher in News on January 25, 2010 at 9:24 am PT
Sorry for the break in grading Yahoo’s Carol Bartz on her one-year anniversary as CEO.
But BoomTown was swanning around the Sundance Film Festival in Utah this weekend, went partying with those boozy Hollywood types and ended up in Provo with the crazy gals from “The Runaways”!
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wish! Actually, running away from issuing any grade for deal-making for Bartz is a pretty good way to put it.
Because today, after much thought, I have to give the Yahoo leader an incomplete for deal-making.
Kara Swisher in News on December 4, 2009 at 3:09 pm PT
Microsoft and Yahoo finally dotted all their i’s and crossed all their t’s today on the final agreement for their search and online advertising partnership.
Somewhere a lawyer got his briefs.
No one but tech reporters and hair-trigger Wall Street analysts care, but the pair had to extend the deadline for inking the formal deal because it was so darn complex!
John Paczkowski in News on November 24, 2009 at 2:28 pm PT
They’re grinning like a shot fox up at Microsoft today now that the company’s advertising partnership with Yahoo has been cleared by antitrust regulators in Australia and Canada.
Kara Swisher in News on November 19, 2009 at 11:03 am PT
Greg Nelson, who has had the thankless job of running MSN for Microsoft, has left that position and been given the even more thankless task of running the integration of the complex search and online advertising partnership struck by the software giant and Yahoo.
Nelson’s counterpart at Yahoo, according to sources, will be Mark Morrissey, who is currently SVP of Products at the Internet giant.
The pair–pictured above, with Morrissey on left, Nelson on right–will have their hands full in what will ultimately be a two-year effort.
BoomTown’s title for the relationship: A Couple of White Geek Guys Sitting Around Arguing!
Kara Swisher in News on November 18, 2009 at 8:55 am PT
While in Washington, D.C., BoomTown can’t just visit the policy wonks from Internet companies, so I paid a visit to Jeff Chester, the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group that works to promote privacy and protection online.
In other words, a professional–and much needed–thorn in the side of Facebook, Google and these days, MicroHoo.
Kara Swisher in News on November 18, 2009 at 12:01 am PT
Yahoo and Microsoft are poised to finally sign the definitive agreement that will govern the complex and far-reaching search and online advertising partnership they struck in late July, said sources close to the situation.
If all goes well, the various Microsoft and Yahoo execs–who have been ferreted away over the last weeks, busy dotting all the i’s and crossing all the t’s in the massive document–could even turn in the delayed deal homework to their bosses for signature by the end of the week.
Kara Swisher in News on October 28, 2009 at 6:34 pm PT
In what should come as a shock to almost no one, the detailed negotiations to complete the Microsoft and Yahoo search and online advertising final agreement are more complicated than its authors anticipated and are taking longer than expected to complete.
Relax, folks–they’ll get done.
But here’s a more important thing that should wrap up sooner than later: Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz’s gibes about former CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang’s tenure.
Kara Swisher in News on October 8, 2009 at 1:20 pm PT
Yesterday, BoomTown wrote about the status of the regulatory investigation for the Microsoft-Yahoo search and online advertising pact, which most expect to get approved.
One of the few vocal critics of the deal, though, is Jeffrey Chester, the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a public interest group, who lobbed MicroHoo some important questions.
Here are the answers.