Microsoft exec Gurdeep Singh Pall is speaking right now at the SMX Advanced search industry conference in Seattle, and host Danny Sullivan spent some time pressing for details on the company’s… Read More
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,… Read More
Yahoo is reportedly buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, a deal that was first reported by All Things D. The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter,… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
Yahoo has acquired Seattle-based Alike for an undisclosed sum, aiming to bolster its own mobile technologies by bringing aboard the team responsible for Alike’s data-crunching mobile recommendation system. Alike announced… Read More
Yahoo and Google this afternoon announced an agreement to put ads from Google’s AdSense and AdMob systems on Yahoo sites. It’s a non-exclusive deal, but it’s also a clear sign… Read More
Social media has revolutionized the way we communicate. With the revolution has come insane amounts of data, analytics and information about customers, followers and users. How can companies leverage this… Read More
Marissa Mayer continues to make her mark at Yahoo. The company today reported revenue of $1.3 billion for the fourth quarter, a two percent increase over the same period last… Read More
Avanade, a 12-year-old joint venture formed by Microsoft and Accenture, has named Florin Rotar as the company’s first chief technology innovation officer and Stella Goulet as its first chief marketing officer.… Read More
In a blog post late Friday, the Yahoo Messenger team announced that it’s cutting several features from the instant-messaging service as part of the broader attempt to bring new focus… Read More
Optify, a Seattle startup specializing in marketing software, has named 25-year- marketing vet Doug Wheeler to the position of chief marketing officer. Wheeler most recently worked at TappIn, which was… Read More
The whole Microsoft-Yahoo search saga has always felt like a soap opera, starting with Microsoft’s failed bid to acquire Yahoo in 2008, and continuing to the present-day shakiness of their… Read More
[Update: comScore changed its methods for collecting data in August, making the month-over-month comparisons invalid. The biggest change is in the combined total of Bing and Yahoo searches, as noted… Read More
Microsoft is adding content from top contributors on the Quora question-and-answer site to the “social sidebar” on its Bing search results pages, trying to boost the usefulness of the feature. The results… Read More
“I am honored and delighted to lead Yahoo, one of the internet’s premier destinations for more than 700 million users.”—Newly-appointed Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer commenting on her new role at… Read More
It’s official. New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is making serious bank at the struggling tech giant. All Things D wrote this afternoon that Mayer’s take could reach at least $60… Read More
Yahoo posted so-so quarterly results this afternoon, with revenue flat at $1.08 billion after adjusting for the cost of acquiring traffic. One reason for the underwhelming performance: Microsoft’s alliance with… Read More
Do you remember where you were when you heard Marissa Mayer was named the CEO of Yahoo? I do. I was at work. I saw something vague about it on… Read More
Google’s Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at the search giant, has resigned to accept a position as the new CEO of Yahoo. The New York Times DealBook blog has… Read More
Microsoft Bing posted a small gain in the U.S. search market in June, closing the gap ever so slightly against Google, but Microsoft search partner Yahoo continued to drag down… Read More
Yahoo exorcised another remnant of Scott Thompson’s reign today, settling the patent litigation that he launched against Facebook during his short tenure as chief executive. The companies just confirmed the settlement,… Read More
Yahoo and Zillow are expanding their long-running online real estate partnership to include rental properties. As part of the deal, Zillow now provides more than 400,000 rental listings to Yahoo Homes.… Read More
New numbers from comScore Networks show Google pulling further ahead of Microsoft Bing and Yahoo in the U.S. search market in May, claiming its largest lead over its competitors since December… Read More