Yahoo Wants to Buy Hulu
Yahoo put in a bid (in the $600 million to $800 million range, according to AllThingsD) for the service while private equity giants Silver Lake Partners and KKR have made separate bids, according to Bloomberg.
Yahoo put in a bid (in the $600 million to $800 million range, according to AllThingsD) for the service while private equity giants Silver Lake Partners and KKR have made separate bids, according to Bloomberg.
Twitter Testing New Local Discovery Features — And It’s About Time – AllThingsD"Twitter is in the process of testing a new feature that lets you discover tweets from people within a certain distance of your location.
Peter Kafka of AllThingsD reported last night that “YouTube and its owner Google have agreed to buy a minority stake in VEVO, according to people familiar with the deal, which hasn’t been finalized. The deal would strengthen YouTube’s top position...
As pointed out by Liz Gannes at AllThingsD, the figure LinkedIn is touting is the number of registered members, not active monthly users (which LinkedIn won't disclose), so take that figure for what you will.
If you see a dog on a skateboard video, the CPMs, the cost per thousand impressions, are about $2," Kamangar said during an interview with Peter Kafka of AllThingsD. YouTube has unveiled a new look to help users find their favorite channels and...
Mike Isaac at AllThingsD shared some interesting insight into the Favorite feature. Twitter is reportedly testing new “Like” or “Star” options in place of “Favorite” for tweets. Select users have seen the new icons in place of the traditional...
Speaking at the AllThingsD conference on Wednesday (video embedded below), Schmidt said that as the two firms wrestle for control of the mobile market, the overall winners would be end users. The ongoing battle between Apple and Google for...
Facebook is testing the feature, which includes the presence of a Collect or Want button with products, in a trial run with a small number of retailers, according to AllThingsD. Facebook has unveiled a new feature to improve businesses' ability to...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer laid out her vision for the future of Yahoo for employees yesterday, some of whom leaked the details of her plan to AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher. Don’t get too excited over details; this was more a broad overview of where she’d...
Eric Schmidt interviewed Vaughn for an employee talk, according to AllThingsD. Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson and crew visited the Googleplex in Mountain View this week to shoot external scenes for upcoming film “The Internship.
In a statement first posted by AllThingsD, Google said that the addition of a Do Not Track option was part of an agreement the company reached with the U.S.government on the implementation of Do Not Track.
Meanwhile, AllThingsD reported that Facebook is losing three executives: Ethan Beard, director of platform partnerships; Katie Mitic, platform marketing director; and Jonathan Matus, mobile platform marketing manager.
Some at Yahoo are elated by Mayer's arrival; some are just happy she gets her own lunch in the cafeteria, according to numerous Yahoo’s quoted by AllThingsD. In her first internal memo, obtained by AllThingsD, Mayer urged Yahoos to “keep moving”:
Meanwhile, Levinsohn is reportedly the "last man standing" in Yahoo's search for a new CEO, according to AllThingsD. Facebook and Yahoo have reached a settlement in their twin patent infringement cases and agreed on an advertising deal.
Michael Scissons, CEO of Syncapse, told AllThingsD “pretty much everybody” from Clickable will move to Syncapse, increasing their employee base by about 70 people. Social performance management platform Syncapse has announced their intention to...
Considering the Senators’ request, it’s disheartening to hear Leibowitz announce on-stage at the AllThingsD conference, “There are certainly allegations that the search results have changed or evolved over the years,” he said on stage yesterday at...
AllThingsD has covered pretty much every inch of the highly politicized situation as it began to unravel, including the official announcement of CEO changes and the proxy settlement, details on the $7 million “Make-Whole” cash bonus Thompson walks...
As AllThingsD put it: Google co-founder Sergey Brin has warned against the growing number of restrictions on the Internet arising from governments' attempts to control communications and censor populations in nations such as China.
Thompson’s full email can be found at AllThingsD. Amidst a massive company restructuring, Yahoo search will live on. After cutting 2,000 jobs last week, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has unveiled his vision for turning around the struggling company.
Part of what AOL is selling (at a loss) is the underlying patents for the old Netscape browser, AllThingsD reported. AOL is selling more than 800 patents to Microsoft for $1.056 billion in cash. AOL will retain patents related to advertising...
