So while all the attention on who Microsoft is hunting next–after its latest parry at grabbing Yahoo’s search business was foiled once again–has settled on Time Warner’s AOL (see BoomTown’s post on that interest from Monday), it would be a mistake to assume that the sof...

When I was recently in New York, I enjoyed a delicious breakfast with Wenda Harris Millard, who was recently named co-CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO), aka the House Martha Built With Her Trusty Glue Gun. Millard (pictured here) went to MSLO after many years of building and running Yahoo...

As Yahoo burns, the newspaper industry watches, hoping it won't get singed. The Google/Yahoo search ad agreement has drawn lots of comments over the past couple of weeks, but its impact on newspaper consortium members has gotten little attention. The deal itself, if implemented, won't have much imme...

With the ad-outsourcing deal between Yahoo (YHOO) and Google (GOOG) finally announced–in a press release so parsed and careful, it makes me immediately suspect–one Microsoft (MSFT) source joked to me: “Let loose the dogs of war.” Translation: Bite me! Indeed, even though the ...

After reviewing our post "The 10 worst workspaces in tech," commenter AdmNaismith described Facebook's office, pictured above, as "foggy, dank, dim, and utterly depressing." Commenter mothra1 hated Yahoo's New York offices more: "They suck! Lifeless and impersonal. Kinda like the douchebags who stil...

We've toured the top 10 workspaces in tech. Now, we've gone back to Office Snapshots to find the 10 worst. What makes them so bad? Some offend with exposed fluorescent lights, gray cubicles and a dystopian corporate sheen. But others, with their pseudo-hip graffiti, kindergarten toys and plastic dec...

All week, Yahoo’s investors have waited for the other shoe to drop–its much-hyped ad deal with Google (GOOG), in which Yahoo (YHOO) would outsource some of its online search-ad monetization business to the search giant. But will that deal land with a thud instead? Today, The Wall Street ...

Remember when Google bought DoubleClick and the FTC reluctantly agreed to it? Well, now come the layoffs, after a bunch of employees signed non-compete agreements. Valleywag, of course got the story first, including the offending language: 8. Covenant Regarding Competition. I agree that for a period...

So, last year the Federal Trade Commission announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on "behavioral targeting" on which comments are due Friday. So, the National Advertising Initiative has proposed their own set of rules in the hopes that the FTC will adopt them instead of more restrictive ones that...

A recently departed DoubleClicker tells us that Google managers asked employees at the online ad company it acquired last month to sign one-year noncompete agreements. Most agreed, thinking that it would spare their jobs — but then layoffs came a week later. They were "pretty pissed" over the ...