At Yahoo’s annual shareholder meeting, Chief Executive Carl Bartz said the company had "nothing to say" about any potential deal with Microsoft and asked investors to be patient as she works to overhaul the company.
"If we ever have a deal with Microsoft, it will be announced publicly and until we do, we have nothing to say," said Bartz said at the meeting in Santa Clara, Calif.
Bing Porn Problem Resolved
Update 2: Microsoft further addressed the issue, as explained in a recent blog post. Bing General Manager Mike Nichols says:
Microsoft’s Latest Global Problem
All of the Microsoft haters out there will love this one. When I got up this morning and went to my car to go to the office, I plugged my Zune in to get some tunes on for the drive, and to my dismay, I could not get a single thing to come up on the screen (much less out of the speakers) except the Zune logo. In fact, the device is currently sitting on my desk with the same problem.
Do You Have a Problem with Live Blogging?
Barry Schwartz posted something of a rant at Search Engine Roundtable after an unnamed blogger attacked the site’s live blogging coverage of PubCon:
McCain Has A Drinking Problem
Obama Has A Drinking Problem
The Internet Radio Problem Bigger Than Pandora
The other day I posted an article about Pandora’s probably upcoming demise as a result of a royalty rate hike put in place by SoundExchange, which represents record labels and the artists signed to them. If popular opinion around the ‘net is any indication, the issue is a lot larger than Pandora shutting down. An Industry in Peril
Mozilla’s CEO Has Problem With Apple’s Safari Download
It’s been a few months since Apple has done anything to mark its
Problem With Google’s “Search in Search” Function
We recently reported on Google’s new search in search functionality where Google offers users the ability to search a site within its SERPs (search engine results page).Search in search is aimed at helping searchers get to their desired information more directly from Google’s results. The concept sounds great in theory, with searchers being able to filter through a site’s content direct from the results page.Well it’s great until it presents competitor sponsored listings when displaying the internal search results from a particular site.
AOL’s Penguin: “Behavioral Targeting No Problem”
Some people know about behavioral targeting, and some people don’t. To educate this second group (and perhaps make the first feel less threatened), AOL intends to explain the practice with a cartoon penguin.
Adwords Mistakes – Getting to the Root of the Problem
The numerous list posts you see on the most common mistakes made by adwords beginners don’t get to the root of the problem. They focus on the use of adwords features like this: