Earlier today, Silicon Alley Insider reported that layoffs at AOL, which had been announced in January, were finally taking place. Actually, said an AOL insider, about 10 percent of the layoffs, or 70 people, have been let go since the announcement. The pace just got ratcheted up today, adding anoth...

Oh dear, one endless, screwed-up global airline ride without Internet connectivity and when I finally manage to get online (looking right at the Spanish Steps in Rome–sweeeeet!), BoomTown finds that a new round o’ MicroHoo is apparently on again. (In the immortal words of Michael Corleon...

Hi there! Kara here. Just a simple girl who grew up in a Southern Baptist/ evangelical/ Methodist home south of Chicago. Then converted to Judaism through a well-known conservative synagogue in Los Angeles. I never bought that whole Holy Trinity theory. But that’s another story… My first Purim w...

If British TV shows are so darned great, why do U.S. producers insist upon remaking them instead of showing the originals? There are plenty of reasons! For one thing, the shows make reference to political situations, local celebrities and places that are unknown to most Americans, so a lot of the jo...

Today, Twitter’s investors are in rainy San Francisco for a board meeting of the hyped microblogging service, where they will presumably discuss revenue options that the start-up keeps promising are coming soon. In fact, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said about a month ago in a blog post that &...

“One way to think about this is as a timeline–or a stream.” –Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the new look for profiles and home pages on the hot social-networking service, March 3, 2009 As part of its ongoing rejiggering of its social-networking offerings, AOL ...

Here below are three screenshots of Microsoft’s internal test of a new search product called Kumo. The long expected upgrade to the Live Search product from Microsoft (MSFT) is being tested for a public rollout later this year. The blogosphere was a-twitter, literally, after a Twitter post by ...

Last week, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was all about regret when talking about the umpteenth stubbed toe that he got when the social-networking site changed its Terms of Service and accidentally laid claim to every piece of intellectual property in the world. Okay, maybe not all, but it...

BoomTown is impatiently cooling heels, waiting for a press conference to begin about “new steps Facebook is taking to improve user understanding and ownership of the Facebook terms of service and, more generally, the policies of the Facebook service.” The Yahoo (YHOO) reorg finally annou...

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz declared reorg today on the company’s corporate blog, Yodel Anecdotal. Although it had exactly zero details about who is in and who is out at Yahoo (YHOO), in a post titled “Getting our house in order,” she said the announcement of a management shake-up was th...