Kenneth Corbin

Embattled Web pioneer Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) may be planning a major internal restructuring as it faces an executive exodus and a looming battle for control of the company. Details of a plan to consolidate various product groups and streamline Yahoo’s domestic and international operations could emerge as early as next week, according to a report […]

Apple has hit a pretty big milestone, announcing today that it’s now sold more than 5 billion songs through its iTunes store. Research from NPD Group has already crowned iTunes the No. 1 U.S. music retailer, eclipsing WalMart in the early months of the year. Apple also said that iTunes is renting or selling movies […]

The clock is ticking on a regulatory review of Yahoo’s ad deal with Google. That may help explain why Yahoo’s CEO, Jerry Yang, made the rounds in Washington on Wednesday. Yang met with key lawmakers to address growing concerns that the partnership could harm competition and threaten consumer privacy. The Justice Department has already begun […]

LinkedIn, the professional networking site, has raised an additional $53 million in capital. The infusion helps peg the company’s valuation at about $1 billion. This latest round of financing is led by Bain Capital Ventures, with contributions coming also from existing LinkedIn backers Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and Bessemer Ventures. LinkedIn had raised $27 million […]

Now that the tech industry has had a few days to digest the blockbuster ad deal that Yahoo signed with Google, numerous commentators have declared it a death knell for Yahoo’s search-ad business. The charge was that by giving Google a portion of its search ads, Yahoo was essentially admitting defeat, heading down a slippery […]

Source: Reuters As analysts and pundits noisily question the wisdom of Yahoo’s alliance with archrival Google in what seemed a deal struck out of desperation, Yahoo presses forward with its mobile strategy, detailing a series of partnerships struck far away from the whirlwind in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. At this year’s CommunicAsia mobile conference […]

Promixic’s home page Proximic, an ad network built on a novel contextual-matching technology, is opening its doors to publishers of all sizes with a self-serve capability today, bringing it more directly in competition with Google’s AdSense. Launched in October, Proximic struck deals with eBay’s Shopping.com and Yahoo’s Shopping networks in January. But what was missing […]

For all of us who’ve found ourselves consumed by the endless machinations of Deal Days at Yahoo, the shrill rhetoric and high dudgeon of spurned suitors have commonplace. First it was Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: “It is unfortunate that by choosing not to enter into substantive negotiations with us, you have failed to give due […]

New research suggests many people are using the Web to bypass traditional media outlets to learn about the presidential campaign and gain what they believe is “unfiltered” access to candidates. In a report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, researchers said they found that 39 percent of U.S. adults are using the Web […]

As the dust begins to settle from Yahoo’s announcement that it had broken off talks with Microsoft and signed a major ad-outsourcing deal with Google, industry watchers look ahead. Will it pass muster with regulators? Through the nonexclusive deal, Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) will be able to run ads from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) next to its […]

UPDATED: Yahoo has announced that after more than four tortured months of stop-start acquisition talks with Microsoft, the deal’s off. Source: Reuters The embattled Web pioneer said today that all discussions with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) about any type of acquisition — either an outright purchase or a partial sale — have ended. In its statement, […]

NEW YORK — The day after it came forward with a string of new products to support its Big Green initiative, IBM (NYSE: IBM) dispatched an executive to a high-profile trade show to talk up energy-efficient computing. In a keynote address at the Direct Marketing Association’s biannual conference, Elaine Lennox, vice president of marketing management […]