“Where did the computer go?” was the slogan Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) used in 2004 when it launched the first of its current range of iMac desktop computers. The question was designed to draw attention to the ingenuity with which the company’s designers had managed to pack the components of an…

Given the recent news of Carol Bartz’s departure as CEO, a Q&A with EVP of Americas Ross Levinsohn couldn’t have come at a more opportune moment. He took the stage at paidContent Advertising conference for his first post-Bartz appearance, addressing efforts with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and AOL (NYSE: AOL) to…

Update: We’ve just kicked off the conference and our live stream is available here. Some of the best minds will gather Thursday in New York for paidContent Advertising: Emerging Business Models, the first major conversation about advertising following a summer—and a first week back— than was more active than any…

Push has finally come to shove at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Kara Swisher reports that Carol Bartz is out at Yahoo and that CFO Tim Morse is interim CEO. Bartz has been rumored to be out the door almost as long as she has been at Yahoo; the drumbeat only has…

Alok Kejriwal is CEO and co-founder of the online gaming company games2win.com. He blogs at rodinhood.com. In October of last year alone, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) attracted 605 million unique Internet users (50% of the global Internet population), got them to return another 18 times, stick around for 9.5 minutes during…

Well-known cricket writer Prem Panicker, one of Rediff.com’s earliest staffers and the editorial director of the company’s US-based newspaper India Abroad, is leaving the Nasdaq-listed firm after a 14-year stint, a person familiar with the development said. According to our source, Panicker is likely to join Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) India…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) purchased Arab portal Maktoob this summer for a reported $75 million and additional international acquisitions could be on the way. Keith Nilsson, Yahoo’s SVP for emerging markets, noted the purchase during his presentation to analysts Wednesday and said the company would “continue to evaluate expansion opportunities in…

After those somewhat derivative TV ads, the next stage in Yahoo’s effort to drive awareness of its new personalisation features is Yodel Studio, an engagement marketing campaign aiming to “give the yodel back to the people”. In sound stages erected at London’s Covent Garden, New York’s Times Square and Mumbai’s…

A week after Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) splashed India’s top newspapers with its bright yellow house colour in a high voltage ad campaign, it has emerged that its email service has lost its status as the most popular email service in India to Gmail, rival Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Inc.‘s email service.…

In the normal course of things, it’s rare for Internet companies in India to take out print advertising at all. On Monday, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) stunned Internet users with a high voltage campaign that broke as jacket ads (equivalent of full front page ads) in national dailies, including The Times…

Pearl Uppal, director, sales, at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) India, who headed monetization across all revenue streams for the Internet major’s India operations, has resigned (via e4m). She confirmed the development, and said she was serving her notice period.

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is shutting down SpotM, the social networking service it began testing in India a year ago. Among its features: Users could keep certain friends secret from others and also correspond via text message without revealing their phone numbers. On the SpotM website, Yahoo says it was “experimenting”…

Last month we got a tip that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) was in the final stages of buying one of the largest Arab online portals Maktoob, for about $75 million. This was right when the MSFT-Yahoo deal was announced, and we tried kicking the tires on it, and finally gave up…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) reached an agreement last month under which Yahoo Search will be replaced by Microsoft’s Bing sometime in 2010. According to Komli Media’s analytics platform Vizisense, the combined share of search traffic from India for Yahoo and Microsoft in July is only 8.49%, compared…

It’s been a busy 24 hours in the life of the Yahoo-Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Search Deal. Our coverage: Deal Talk With Yahoo’s Schneider, Microsoft’s Mehdi: ‘Adding Display Is Boiling The Ocean’ Why Microsoft Appears To Have Gotten The Better End Of The Search Deal If Microsoft Wants Yahoo’s Mobile Search,…

Updated: The 18-month Microsoft-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) saga finally enters a productive phase (regulators willing) with a 10-year global search and advertising sales pact between the two companies. The deal, much of which has already been reported, was announced formally before U.S. markets opened. Yahoo estimates that the deal will improve…

After nearly a year of testing, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is unveiling its overhauled home page, which it is describing as the “most radical” change to Yahoo.com since the company started 15 years ago. The last redesign was in 2006, and Yahoo which has struggled to define its place on the…

Anil Srivatsa, COO at The India Today Group’s Meow FM, has left the radio station he launched in 2007, reports AFaqs. Meow markets itself as a talk radio station targetted at women.  Senior journalist Gautam Adhikari stepped down as editorial pages editor at The Times of India. He is moving…

Venture capital fund Canaan Partners has appointed former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Syamtec executive Sharad Sharma as an entrepreneur-in-residence. Sharma earlier led Yahoo! India R&D and was the India General Manager and VP of Product Operations with Symantec. Sharma was responsible for turning around the operations of Symantec’s, formerly VERITAS…