22 hours ago by Kara Swisher

It’s well known that Google doesn’t do much in the way of marketing around its search service. While you will catch advertising for the Chrome browser or for Android smartphones on the Web, given Google’s huge 70 percent market share in search, it hardly needs to attract users. So, then, what is one ...

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1 day ago by Drake Martinet

In tough economic times such as these, even the biggest businesses get the urge to restructure, re-org and reshuffle. Kara began Monday with some of the hard facts from the pending AOL-TimeWarner (TWX) split. Stock issued for the post-spinoff AOL places the company’s total implied value at around $3 ...

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2 days ago by Kara Swisher

BoomTown was intrigued when Mind-Your-Own Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter, penned a blog post yesterday about the microblogging service changing its prompting question. Now, above the little Twitter box, it reads, “What’s Happening?” and not the original tweet query “What are you doing? ...

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3 days ago by Kara Swisher

BoomTown has learned that AOL is offering those who “volunteer” to leave the company now a departure package that ranges from three to nine months of pay, compared to one to four months for employees laid off in the first quarter of next year. It’s a depressing rock-and-a-hard-place choice. An AOL s ...

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3 days ago by Kara Swisher

Greg Nelson (pictured here), who has had the thankless job of running MSN for Microsoft, has left that job 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. Microsoft (MSFT) sent out ...

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3 days ago by Kara Swisher

Yesterday, BoomTown wrote about AOL’s efforts–including hiring investment bankers–to sell its ICQ instant-messaging unit. But that’s probably not going to be the end of the shedding of assets at the online site. In fact, according to sources inside and outside AOL, one of the next candidates for sal ...

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3 days ago by Kara Swisher

Yesterday, BoomTown wrote about AOL’s efforts–including hiring investment bankers–to sell its ICQ instant-messaging unit. But that’s probably not going to be the end of the shedding of assets at the online site. In fact, according to sources inside and outside AOL, one of the next candidates for sal ...

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3 days ago by Kara Swisher

Earlier today, BoomTown reported that Yahoo (YHOO) was poised to name a few new top execs at its Silicon Valley HQ. But, the company has also hired a new director of public affairs in the nation’s capital. After I queried the company, Yahoo confirmed that it has tapped Amber Allman, a vice president ...

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4 days ago by Kara Swisher

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is making some substantive changes in her exec ranks, since she did a massive restructuring of its staff in late February, according to sources close to the situation. “She is continuing to clean the place up,” said one top exec about the moves, which are likely to be announced ...

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4 days ago by Kara Swisher

AOL has hired a pair of New York investment bankers Morgan Stanley and Allen & Co., to manage a sale of its ICQ instant messaging unit. Sources familiar with the situation said interest in buying the asset from two major non-U.S. companies prompted execs at the online service to put a process in pla ...

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