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Friday, October 23, 2009

Liveblogging the Microsoft First-Quarter Earnings Call: Look, Wall Street–Jazz Hands!

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Well, well, well, that financial imp at Microsoft–CFO Chris Liddell–pulled a fast one on Wall Street and turned in first-quarter earnings that blew away all estimates and even whisper numbers.

BoomTown liveblogged the morning conference call, which took place at 7:30 am PT–thanks for the Kiwi-laced wake-up call, Chris!

While revenue and net income in Q1 were down significantly from the same period a year ago, they were not as bad as investors expected.

Which apparently passes for terrific these days!

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Friday, September 26, 2008

Yahoogle–Bookmark This! (Warning: BoomTown Was Fake-Blurbed by Google!)

It must have been the space cakes here in Amsterdam–otherwise how could we miss mentioning a new Web site that Google has put up about its controversial search advertising outsourcing deal?

Even as the Justice Department drills down on the deal, a very helpful Google PR guy sent information about the site, which is designed to convince critics of the benefits of the Yahoogle partnership.

But, curiously, the site touts the deal by using a woefully-out-of-context quote from a piece I did last week.

Apparently, I support it! (Actually, I do not.)

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About Kara

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.

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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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