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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Mahalo’s Jason Calacanis in Better Days

As usual, colorful serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis makes lemonade from lemons–or is it vice versa?–touting cost-cutting at his human-powered search engine start-up and newest venture, Mahalo, almost as much as he touted its prospects when he started it up a year ago with $20 million in funding.

But in a blog post yesterday, Calacanis sang perfectly in tune with the new, decidedly grimmer, times. But BoomTown has videos of when things were sunnier for Mahalo.

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Will Yahoo and AOL Ever Stop Talking and Make a Deal? (In Related News, Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead.)

Back in the first season of “Saturday Night Live,” one running catchphrase uttered by Chevy Chase would always crack the then-12-year-old BoomTown right up: “This breaking news just in: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.”

It’s that same kind of extreme déjà vu I feel with the continuing drip-drip-drip of the news-less news that Time Warner’s AOL and Yahoo are still talking about a merger.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Laid-Back Layoffs at Yahoo?

There have been a plethora of reports over the last week about what is happening at Yahoo in relation to layoffs.
As regular readers of BoomTown know, cutting staff is one thing we have suggested as something many think the Internet giant should do more of, perhaps even in a dramatic way, even though Yahoo has [...]

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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