Yahoo Inc. posted drops in revenue and profit in new Chief Executive Carol Bartz’s first quarter on the job, and announced plans to cut about 675 workers from its payroll, as the tech industry showed signs of continued economic battering. Although Yahoo met analysts’ estimates, its revenue fell to $1.58 billion for the first three […]
Hulu Goes Old School, Loves Living Room TV: Los Angeles Times, April 2009
For an online video company, Hulu believes in the power of television. Naturally it loves television content – putting those shows online is a big part of Hulu’s raison d’etre, and its founding investors include News Corp. and NBC Universal. But Hulu loves TVads as well. “Television works really well,” Hulu Chief Executive Jason Kilar said in a speech […]
City Editor Payne Peterson Left Her Mark on the Journal: The Ithaca Journal, April 2009
As society bemoans the troubled state of the newspaper, struggling to survive in the Internet age, it’s worth pondering what once made newspapers so vital to civic life. In my belief, it was journalists like Payne Peterson.Twenty years ago, Payne, who died April 5 after years of living with multiple sclerosis, ruled the newsroom of […]
Google’s Growth Slows in First Quarter Amid Recession: Los Angeles Times, April 2009
The nation’s economic ills have infected even the Internet moneymaking juggernaut Google Inc., which Thursday reported slowing revenue growth and an increase in profit aided by sharp cost-cutting. “No company is immune,” Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in announcing the company’s first-ever quarter-to-quarter drop in sales. In an interview, he added, “There are people who […]
Skype Founders May Try to Buy Service Back From EBay: Los Angeles Times, April 2009
Original article If the Skype founders succeed in buying back the Internet calling service from EBay Inc., it would dissolve a marriage that made little sense to customers or investors. EBay bought Skype from Scandinavian entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis in 2005 for more than $3.1 billion. The pair are reportedly seeking private equity […]
Skype Founders May Try to By Service Back From EBay: Los Angeles Times, April 2009
If the Skype founders succeed in buying back the Internet calling service from EBay Inc., it would dissolve a marriage that made little sense to customers or investors. EBay bought Skype from Scandinavian entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis in 2005 for more than $3.1 billion. The pair are reportedly seeking private equity partners to […]
Job Seekers Turning to Online Social Networks: Los Angeles Times, April 2009
Almost as soon as Guang-Yu Xu was laid off from his engineering post at a Silicon Valley Internet company last month, he visited LinkedIn.com and updated his job status from “current” to “past.” Through their interconnected contacts, he soon heard from headhunter Robert Greene, one of more than 530,000 recruiters trolling the professional networking site […]
Tech Ventures Running Lean but Upbeat: Los Angeles Times, March 2009
With tech-savvy entrepreneurs planning their next ventures and pulsating parties packed with digital hipsters, this year’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival didn’t feel like an event on the verge of Great Depression 2.0. But underneath it all lingered the reality: Tech company valuations have tanked, venture capital has grown scarce and Americans are obsessed with […]
Author Julia Angwin talks up ‘Stealing MySpace’ at SXSW: Los Angeles Times, March 2009
For all the dirt that gets dished on the MySpace social network, very little of it has spilled about MySpace itself. But in a new book out today, and unveiled at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, author Julia Angwin unveils the somewhat tawdry story of the company’s roots in spam, porn and spyware. “When I started reporting […]
Media Companies Learn to Mash Up at SXSW: Los Angeles Times, March 2009
It’s been a few years since mashups became a hot thing in the tech industry. Companies would open their programming tools, known as APIs, to the public, and then enterprising developers would come up with new tools built on the company’s platform. Think of the way people merged apartment listings from Craigslist with Google Maps, or […]