Kenneth Corbin

By now, we’ve gotten accustomed to hearing from presidential candidates’ surrogates who make the rounds on the talking-head television circuit, taking questions from a host or sparring with a representative from the opposing camp. Well, the Internet has thrown its doors wide open as a forum for the campaigns to engage each other in debate. […]

UPDATED: Online-retail giant Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported brisk second-quarter earnings today, posting profits of 37 cents per share, a $158 million windfall that more than doubled from the same time last year. With sales of $4.06 billion, up 41 percent from the year-earlier period, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) came in at the high end of its […]

Activist investor Carl Icahn offered an explanation for suddenly dropping his proxy war and striking a compromise with Yahoo earlier this week, blaming the difficulty of commandeering a company’s board of directors by shareholder vote. In the end, Icahn suggested, he just didn’t have the support. “It is unfortunately extremely difficult to take control of […]

Embattled Web pioneer Yahoo reported a nearly 19 percent drop in profit today as it faces a tough economy and lingering uncertainties about the company’s future in the wake of its talks with off-again, on-again suitor Microsoft. Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) second-quarter net income checked in at $131 million, or 9 cents a share. Excluding one-time […]

Source: Reuters TiVo, the digital video recorder (DVR) pioneer, is jumping into e-commerce with a new partnership with Amazon. The new Product Purchase feature unveiled today is TiVo’s (NASDAQ: TIVO) attempt to deliver on what has been a tantalizing, but elusive dream for advertisers. Through the partnership, TiVo will display menus with links to Amazon’s […]

To shore up consumer confidence in shopping online, merchant-assurance company buySAFE launched today the Shopping Advisor tool, a browser plug-in that displays security ratings alongside e-commerce listings in a search results page. The new tool expands on the five-year-old buySAFE’s existing business line, through which it has been partnering with merchants to give their online […]

After two months of bitter public sparring and mutual accusations, Yahoo has made peace with Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor who has been lobbying to take control of the company’s board of directors and force a transaction with Microsoft. Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) today announced a settlement with Icahn, who said he will give up his […]

While Google talks up its efforts to build new lines of ad revenue, its dominance in search should carry it through the current economic downturn, according to financial analysts. Yesterday afternoon, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) reported second-quarter earnings that fell short of the analysts’ expectations, acknowledging for the first time that the economic slump had affected […]

Reporters like to hear people talk in colorful, highly quotable catch phrases — it makes for snappy copy. And savvy media folks know it, too. Jeff Chester at the Center for Digital Democracy has made an art form out of it. It’s kind of like search engine optimization, only instead of trying to make a […]

Yahoo has again revved up its campaign for investor confidence today, sending out the third letter to shareholders since billionaire investor Carl Icahn announced his proxy war for control of the company. At Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) annual meeting on Aug. 1, shareholders will decide whether to re-elect its board, or turn control over to some […]

NebuAd CEO Bob Dykes took another shellacking on Capitol Hill this morning, as lawmakers probed into his company’s controversial plan to target ads to Internet users by intercepting their Web activities from broadband service providers. Appearing before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Dykes reprised his testimony at a Senate hearing last week, […]