Follow TechBlips on Twitter
BoomTown Latest Blog Posts |
Add as Favorite
Claim Blog 
|
Click on the "vote it up" button to submit a story below to our homepage.
If you're the owner of BoomTown, claim your blog to unlock additional tools and reports.
Former VP and full-time envirogod Al Gore, who appeared at the fourth D: All Things Digital in May 2006, turned out to be a very funny guy onstage.
And he’s funny on television too, as you can see from his hysterical appearance this past weekend on “Saturday Night ...
Other
Al Gore
kara.allthingsd.com - 10 hours ago
—
kara.allthingsd.com —
While it might be a dream of publishers–hard
hit by the digital tsunami and blaming Google for
the crisis–Microsoft is not likely to fork over the big bucks they’d need for exclusively indexing their content. “Microsoft ...
(more)
While Microsoft Is Talking to Publishers, Paying Up to ...
Comments
vote down
GMSV
found this 10 hours agofound this
kara.allthingsd.com - 12 hours ago
—
kara.allthingsd.com —
After AOL CEO Tim Armstrong unveiled the newly
punctuated AOL logo –big A, little o, little l,
period–last night, he got on the horn with BoomTown to chitty-chat about the change in image and, more pertinently, how it’s going on ...
(more)
AOL CEO Armstrong Talks About New Branding Effort and ...
It’s well known that Google doesn’t do advertising around its search service.
While you will catch advertising for Chrome or for Android phones on the Web, given Google’s huge 70 percent market share in search, it hardly needs to attract users.
So, then, what is one to ...
Online
Bing
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 ...
Online
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 ...
Online
AOL
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 ...
Online
Yahoo
Microsoft
kara.allthingsd.com - 4 days ago
—
kara.allthingsd.com —
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 ...
(more)
AOL Also Likely to Eye Sale of MapQuest–Is Microsoft a ...
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 ...
Online
Yahoo
Microsoft
kara.allthingsd.com - 2 days ago
Yahoo's Bartz Shuffles the Exec Deck, Filling Audience and Other Top Slot; Is the Board Next for ...
—
kara.allthingsd.com —
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,” ...
(more)
Yahoo's Bartz Shuffles the Exec Deck, Filling Audience ...
kara.allthingsd.com - 5 days ago
—
kara.allthingsd.com —
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 ...
(more)
Exclusive: AOL Hires Bankers to Sell Off ICQ, As ...
While in Washington, D.C., BoomTown can’t just visit the policy wonks from Internet companies (such as my Facebook how-do-you-do here ), so I hightailed it several hundred feet and directly across Connecticut Avenue NW to visit with Jeff Chester.
For those who don’t know him, ...
Online
Yahoo
Microsoft
kara.allthingsd.com - 5 days ago
—
kara.allthingsd.com —
Yahoo and Microsoft are poised to finally sign
the definitive agreement that will govern the complex and
far-reaching search and online advertising partnership that they struck in late July, said sources close to the situation. If all goes ...
(more)
Exclusive: Yahoo and Microsoft Poised to Finally Sign ...
Hollywood director James Cameron is well known for his heavy use of special effects and techtastic techniques in his movies, which have included “Titanic,” “Aliens” and the first–and best–two “Terminator” blockbusters.
In a few weeks, ...
Online
Pandora
Yesterday, BoomTown paid a visit on the Washington, D.C. office of Facebook to meet its reps in the nation’s capital.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the social networking site has a very small–just a trio of on-the-young-side dudes–battening down the hatches from a funky office ...
Online
Microsoft
Sarah Palin
Former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is certainly giving her Facebook fan page a workout this week, as she nears one million fans.
Using the site to flack her new book, “Going Rogue,” which comes out officially today, it got a big boost today with her ...
Online
Sarah Palin
kara.allthingsd.com - 7 days ago
—
kara.allthingsd.com —
AOL will officially be spun off from Time
Warner on December 9, with trading to begin the
next day. Shareholders of record at 5 pm ET on November 27 will get one share of AOL for each 11 shares of Time Warner (TWX) on the day of the long-expected ...
(more)
AOL To Spin Off December 9, Begin Trading December 10
When in San Diego recently, BoomTown paid a visit on Qualcomm and its Chairman and CEO Paul Jacobs to talk about a new “smartbook” device that wireless technology company unveiled last week.
Well, sort of–while I got a gander at a prototype, the real one is not actually ...
Online
Lenovo
Apple
Last week, New Yorker writer Ken Auletta launched his new book on the search giant: “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It.”
But one final chapter was actually cut from the book, which Auletta posted this past weekend on his Web site.
Auletta emailed BoomTown, ...
Software
Steve Jobs
Apple
kara.allthingsd.com - 9 days ago
—
kara.allthingsd.com —
So, BoomTown–who cannot be unplugged from the matrix
for very long without breaking into a cold sweat–was
pretty excited to have free Wi-Fi on my Virgin America flight to Washington, D.C. early this morning. The service from Gogo ...
(more)
Flying the Digitally-Friendly Skies: Gogo, Google and ...
