Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on $1.1 billion Tumblr deal: ‘We promise not to screw it up’

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Well, this kind of says something. In her first public remarks about the blockbuster $1.1 billion cash purchase of Tumblr, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer promises “not to screw it up.” Meanwhile, Tumblr CEO David Karp notes that the fast-growing blogging platform, which boasts 300 million unique visitors per month and 120,000 signs up every day, will… Read More…

Amazon.com and Google employees bullish on future, but 25% of Microsofties say things will get worse

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Microsoft just hit a five-year stock high, and during the last quarterly financial report posted profits of $6 billion. But still a quarter of employees at the software giant think things are going to get worse, and just 35 percent say the business is going to improve over the next six months, according to a… Read More…

Microsoft cites progress on Yahoo search ads, says it’s still committed to providing an alternative to Google

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Microsoft’s search advertising group says it’s starting to wring more revenue out of the Internet search ads that it’s serving as part of its partnership with Yahoo — despite recently needing to extend, for another year, its commitment to cover revenue shortfalls experienced by Yahoo under the arrangement. The news follows a report by the Wall Street… Read More…

Microsoft to cover Yahoo search revenue shortfalls in U.S. for another year

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Microsoft and Yahoo will give their search partnership more time to meet their financial expectations. Microsoft has agreed to extend, for another year, its commitment to cover revenue shortfalls experienced by Yahoo in the U.S. since turning over its underlying search technology and related advertising to be operated by Microsoft. The extension, disclosed in Yahoo’s… Read More…

Blake Irving wants GoDaddy to grow up, and keep its edge

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It’s hard not to notice: New GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving looks a lot like that dude in the company’s logo — even though the logo significantly predates his time at the company. The similarities are so striking that Irving decided to have some fun with his official corporate badge (at right), to lighten the mood… Read More…

Search stats: Google slips, Microsoft continues slow growth

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The monthly U.S. search stats from comScore are out for March and it shows Google slipping just a bit with Microsoft continuing to grow its search share, albeit slowly. Google dropped 0.4 percentage points last month, falling to 67.1 percent of the U.S. search engine market. Microsoft, meanwhile, grew 0.2 percentage points to 16.9. That’s… Read More…

Taking on telecommuting: Maybe Marissa Mayer was right

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Yahoo’s recent work from home uproar caused the pundit class to claim that one company’s internal decision was a mandate that that would kill off workplace flexibility and set women back decades across the country. The problem: it wasn’t. Yahoo made a decision for Yahoo, and other companies may follow suit.  That’s not a bad… Read More…

Search stats: Google and Bing keep climbing as Yahoo slips further behind

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Google climbed back to 67 percent percent of the U.S. search market in January, putting just a bit more distance between itself and Microsoft Bing and Yahoo. The latest numbers from comScore networks, released this afternoon, showed Microsoft climbing 0.2 percentage points, to 16.5 percent of the U.S. market. Microsoft’s search partner, Yahoo, fell by… Read More…

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says search deal with Microsoft needs a boost

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The Internet search alliance between Microsoft and Yahoo appears to be stuck in neutral, and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants that to change. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco Tuesday, Mayer said that the pact with Microsoft was not meeting expectations. “One of the points of the alliance is that… Read More…