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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Weekend Update 10.31.09–Heartbreaks, Heartthrobs and Heart Attacks

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BoomTown’s week began onstage in front of thousands of chanting women. No, Kara wasn’t filling in for Oprah; she was doing something much cooler.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Yahoo CEO: R-e-s-p-e-c-t, Find Out What It Means to Me

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Bartz: Yahoo Is the Largest Communications Engine in the World

bartz-150x150Much has changed at Yahoo since May 17, 2006, the last time the company held an investor day gathering. In May 2006, Yahoo’s shares traded at about $30 and the company claimed 28.98 percent of the U.S. search market. Today, its stock is worth a little over $16 and its share of the search market has fallen to 18.8 percent. Ugly declines, both of them. Fitting then, that Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, speaking at the company’s first investor day gathering in three-and-a-half years, would describe Yahoo’s future as “a journey back to respect.”

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Bartz is Keynoting CES? Are They Putting Her on Five-Second Delay?

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Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s all caps CEO has been tapped to deliver a keynote address at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show.

What’s Yahoo got to tout at a consumer electronics showcase? Could be an update to Connected TV, the same Internet-to-television platform the company debuted at CES last year.

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Cisco Swallows Starent

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Not With a Bing, but a Whimper IV

bing_failLooks like Bing’s steady upward trend of market share gains may have reversed itself. Microsoft’s new search engine saw its U.S. search share fall in September, according to figures from Hitwise. Troubling news for Microsoft. Hitwise’s latest numbers are the second set of metrics from a Web analytics firm showing Bing’s market share in decline.

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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Eolas Sues Internet

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Three years after squeezing a settlement out of Microsoft for alleged infringements of its controversial patent on embedded Web applications, Eolas Technologies hopes to do the same to a bunch of other big tech outfits. This morning, the research and development company filed suit against nearly two dozen companies, including Amazon, Apple, Adobe and Google.

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New Verizon Ad Hits AT&T Where It Hurts

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Not With a Bing, but a Whimper III

bingle Microsoft’s efforts to bolster Bing’s market share are no longer paying off as well as they have been. After months of slight but steady increases in market share, Bing’s percentage of the search market in the U.S. and abroad fell in September for the first time.

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Google Back at $500 a Share

goog“I’d be very surprised if Google did not hit $500 by the end of the year.” Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney said that just last week, and as it happens he has already been proven right. Earlier today, Google saw its shares cross the $500 threshold, setting a new 52-week high.

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Do You, Uh, Y!hoo?

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Bing Growing Eight Times Faster Than Google

bingleNo doubt about it, more consumers are Googling with Bing. According to the latest stats from research firm Nielsen, Microsoft’s new search engine is growing faster than its arch rival’s–much faster.

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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Weekend Update: 9.12.2009–Now in Eight Shiny New Colors

While the highlight jobs-2.0 of the week was undoubtedly Apple’s Rock and Roll event on Wednesday featuring Steve Jobs 2.0, that was only the anodized aluminum, candy-colored, video-shooting cherry on top of another week of tech sector reporting from All Things Digital.

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Friday, September 11, 2009

DOJ Rachets Up Microhoo Review

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QOTD DD Shorty

“Well, sure. You think I’m stupid?”

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz answers the question, “Would you have taken the Microsoft deal that Yahoo turned down a year ago?”

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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