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- Acquisition Talks Between Facebook And Twitter Break Down
- So, Twitter still believes they can figure out how to generate some revenues. Kara Swisher is reporting that the rumors between Facebook acquiring Twitter were not only true, but that talks broke down three weeks ago between the microblogging company and Facebook. The social net was offering to...
- External links 2008-11-24
- The Yahoo Annual Meeting Circus Rolls Back into Town Next Week: Send in the Clowns?
- Kara Swisher submits: In exactly one week at 10 am PST, Yahoo YHOO will hold its annual meeting in Silicon Valley, the first time where new CEO Carol Bartz will greet its shareholders in person. by Kara Swisher
- External links 2009-06-18
- MySpace: After the Layoffs, Here?s What?s What and What?s Next
- Kara Swisher submits: Now what? The party-all-night social networking site that has been MySpace so far got a massive morning-after shock yesterday. when 30 percent of its workforce–or 420 employees–was laid off. by Kara Swisher
- External links 2009-06-17
- Bartz Uses Typical Tough Talk to Pressure Microsoft, Even as Bing Shows Some Early Zing
- Kara Swisher submits: Well, what else is Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz going to do but talk smack? Not at BoomTown–that was so two weeks ago! by Kara Swisher
- External links 2009-06-10
- AOL Spinoff Approved Last Night by Time Warner Board: Here's the Inside Details (Not in the Press Release)
- Kara Swisher submits: While there were reports that the Time Warner board was meeting today to approve the spin-off of its AOL online unit, it actually gave the move an “enthusiastic endorsement” last night, according to sources. Time Warner TWX just put out the press release about...
- External links 2009-05-28
- Microsoft on the Hunt for a New Head of Worldwide Sales, Even As Yahoo Talks Continue
- Kara Swisher submits: Microsoft MSFT is searching for a major executive to run its worldwide online sales, said several sources close to the situation, even as talks with Yahoo YHOO about a deal to partner in its search and display advertising businesses continue. “They need to find...
- External links 2009-04-30
- Update on Yahoo-Microsoft Talks: 'Hot and Heavy'
- Kara Swisher submits: Microsoft and Yahoo have been busily ferreting away on their talks about the possible search and advertising partnership possibilities, in what one person close to the situation described as “hot and heavy.” But exactly how hot and how heavy does depend on which side...
- External links 2009-04-21
- Bartz of 100 Days: From Tough Talk to Microsoft Talks
- Kara Swisher submits: Here’s an interesting irony: Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz will have her 99th day in office on the very one that the Internet giant will announce its first-quarter earnings: April 21, 2009 at 2 pm PST. Technically, it will mean that she has been running...
- External links 2009-04-13
- BoomTown Decodes Google's Phish-y Associated Press Blog (So You Don't Have To)!
- Kara Swisher submits: Yesterday, in response to Associated Press board Chairman and MediaNews Group CEO Dean Singleton’s diatribe against those who shoplift news and his pledge to “protect news content from misappropriation,” Google posted a response on its public policy blog. Of course, that has nothing to...
- External links 2009-04-08
- Exclusive: Dan Rosensweig Steps up to Take His Licks as Guitar Hero Frontman
- Kara Swisher submits: Former Yahoo COO and current Quadrangle Group partner Dan Rosensweig pictured here will take over as CEO and President of Activision Blizzard’s powerful Guitar Hero franchise, according to sources close to the situation. Rosensweig will run the hot gaming company’s division, which is located...
- External links 2009-03-23
- New AOL Chairman and CEO and About-To-Be-Ex-Googler Tim Armstrong Speaks!
- Kara Swisher submits: For a tall man, Tim Armstrong has been on an awful lot of online companies’ short lists. For a big Web exec job, that is. Indeed, whenever one opens up in the Internet space, the 6′-3″ Google ad sales exec always pops up on...
- External links 2009-03-13
- MicroHoo: Stop Them Before They Publicly Negotiate Again!
- Kara Swisher submits: Oh dear, one endless, screwed-up global airline ride without Internet connectivity and when I finally manage to get online (looking right at the Spanish Steps in Rome–sweeeeet!), BoomTown finds that a new round o’ MicroHoo is apparently on again. (In the immortal words of...
- External links 2009-03-10
- AOL International Head Out: Rejiggering Commences!
- Kara Swisher submits: Yahoo’s not the only place BoomTown gets internal corporate memos from! by Kara Swisher
- External links 2009-02-26
- "Hurricane Carol" Bartz Could Announce a Major Yahoo Management Reorg Next Week
- Kara Swisher submits: Several sources inside and outside Yahoo told BoomTown that new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz could be ready to announce a major reorganization of its management structure as early as next week, most likely on Wednesday. While that shift could be pushed out a week or...
- External links 2009-02-22
- More On MySpace's Try To Buy iLike
- MySpace could acquire once white-hot music service iLike today—and, then again, it might not. TechCrunch had a just-about-done deal yesterday for $20 million and a source told us it would be higher than that but Kara Swisher reports that the offer which she pegs at $13.5 million in cash...
- External links 2009-08-18
- This Phantasmagoric Life: Acquisition Talks Between Facebook And Twitter Break Down
- So, Twitter still believes it can figure out how to generate some revenues. Kara Swisher is reporting that the rumors about Facebook acquiring Twitter were not only true, but that talks between the microblogging company and the social-network site broke down three weeks ago. The social net was...
- External links 2008-11-24
- AOL Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong Talks: The 100-Day Check-In
- Kara Swisher submits: After his 100-day VisionQuest to figure out what to do at AOL, Tim Armstrong is in a chattier mood. by Kara Swisher
- External links 2009-07-20
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- Windfall of 2008 Tech Media Forecasts
- Last week, the Silicon Valley chapter of the PRSA held its annual "media predictions" event, this year featuring six of the top tech media professionals (Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, D:All Things Digital Blog and Conference, Rob Hof, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, BusinessWeek, Jim Goldman, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, CNBC, Victoria...
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Yahoo-Microsoft Search Deal Now Imminent (YHOO) (MSFT)
- Now that Yahoo has finally hired a CEO, the Yahoo-Microsoft search deal will be quickly consummated, Kara Swisher's sources say. We sure hope so. Both of these companies are dead in the water in search without each other, and their collective position is getting worse all the time. Kara:...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Twitter on the verge of big search deals?
- Are Microsoft and Google hoping to get into Twitter's treasure trove of real-time information? Yes, says Kara Swisher of AllThingsD, citing sources who indicate that the two companies are separately in talks with Twitter about data licensing deals.This would involve the exchange of several million dollars plus a revenue-share to...
- News items 2009-10-08
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