Posts Tagged ‘CEO Carol Bartz

SAN FRANCISCO–He wasn’t on the program, but nobody was disappointed that Google co-founder Sergey Brin showed up at the Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday afternoon and agreed to sit down for an onstage chat with conference organizer John Battelle. Sergey Brin, Google co-founder (Credit: Google) Battelle said Brin had been extended an invitation to speak [...]

An advertising industry association–backed by four of the world’s largest ad agencies–sent a letter to the Department of Justice Monday endorsing the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal, saying it “enhances competition.” Four major ad agencies would like to see the search deal signed by Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer come to pass. (Credit: [...]

Is search about presentation or results? (Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET There’s perhaps no better way to shift attention from your failings in one era to proclaim the start of a brand-new, totally different era. Yahoo is in the midst of a grand transition as a company, with a pending deal to sell its search [...]

We’ve known this was coming for a while (some of you shared your GeoCities memories back in April), but Yahoo today sent out a final closure notice with the date of GeoCities’ demise: October 26. Back in the proverbial day, GeoCities was the place where many a modern-day internet nerd cut his or her teeth. [...]

On Friday, Yahoo let it be known they added a small tweak to Yahoo Messenger 9 for Windows. When the latest version of Yahoo’s chat application launched, it broadcast as secondary status messages certain activities within the Yahoo network, like refreshing your avatar. Now the service has expanded to record your doings on roughly twenty [...]


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