It’s late on a Friday afternoon, and while siliconANGLE is a new blogging venture that John Furrier invited me in on, it’s certainly not lacking for content! Currently we are growing, and as we grow we should have even more content for you to read. Here is a look at what has been happeni...

Earlier today Microsoft decided it would drop the bomb early by moving its second-quarter earnings conference call with Wall Street analysts to 8 a.m. PST, instead of 2:30 p.m. PST. Microsoft earlier reported a sharp decline in revenues and net income, as well as layoffs of up to 5,000 employees and...

Here is the full memo to employees from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (pictured here) about the 5,000 layoffs and other cost cuts just announced, due to economic slowdown, which also resulted in weak financial results for the second quarter. It is not a happy missive, obviously. But tough times have a...

One of Yahoo’s top marketing execs, Eric Hadley, who came to the company with a lot of acclaim in only November, is set to leave for a new job working in branding and global marketing for Microsoft’s MSN online service, several sources said. Hadley had previously worked at Microsoft (MSF...

BoomTown’s been just one week gone and yet another goofy, traffic-generating debate “erupts” in the blogosphere, involving the usual suspects. (Hey, it’s Loïc Le Meur and Michael Arrington again, fresh from their equally meaningful Are-French-folks-lazy-or-what? debate!) Thi...

[UPDATE below.] Yesterday, the one-man-band of a tech blogger, Michael Arrington, let loose with yet another outrageously indignant diatribe–this time that he and his TechCrunch site would forthwith break all news embargoes. Not content with the traffic generated last week by his obviously fak...

An Internet legend is about to hit a stage in Paris. Luckily it’s the one of Le Web and I can cover it for you. He was the original investor in ICQ, you might have heard about it, and went on an investing spree afterwards. Every now and then, tech blogs cover another project by his hand. IR...

Last week, Bloomberg reported that Yahoo and AOL were still chit-chatting about a possible deal–non-news, actually, given the pair have never stopped talking. Nonetheless, it set off yet another flurry of excitement on Wall Street that a deal to merge the two troubled Internet companies was im...

Here’s part of an internal memo BoomTown obtained about some small, but interesting, changes at Microsoft’s MSN unit, sent out by the GM of its Global Media Group, Greg Nelson, which is under the leadership of–well, frankly–a confusing panoply of execs. Essentially, Nelson no...

As BoomTown expected, the popularity of the chaste-yet-lustful vampire movie for screaming teen girls everywhere, “Twilight,” has inspired more online video spoofs than you can shake a braided rope of garlic at. Rabid fans of Stephenie Meyer’s book series flew into theaters all wee...