Kara Swisher

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Viral Video: Jimmy Fallon Loses to a Lady (The First One)

Bring it on.

Kara Swisher in Media
February 10, 2012 at 12:45 am PT

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Ready to Rumble or Make Nice? Activist Shareholder Daniel Loeb Could Strike Sooner Than Yahoo Thinks.

in News on February 9 at 10:14 am PT

It’s like the movie “The Gray,” except it’s not clear yet who gets eaten and who does the eating.
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End of an Era: Google’s Very First Employee, Craig Silverstein — Technically, No. 3 — Leaving

in News on February 9 at 7:01 am PT

Craig Silverstein was at Google when Google wasn’t Google (or evil, either).
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GigaOM Buys paidContent (Like Peter Kafka Said)

in Media on February 8 at 11:19 am PT

Guess what? Wait, we knew that.
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One More Reason to Occupy Wall Street: “Concern” Over Accurate Tech News

in Media on February 8 at 6:44 am PT

Worrywart Wall Street is agonizing over facts.
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TasteMakerX Raises $1.8M for Mobile Social App Platform

in Social on February 8 at 3:00 am PT

TastemakerX, a San Francisco start-up that is developing a social mobile platform focused on “targeted taste graphs,” said it had raised $1.8 million in funding from a variety of venture firms, including Guggenheim Partners, Baseline Ventures, True Ventures and Tekton Ventures, as well as angel investors. The company said it will release its TastemakerX Music mobile app as a private beta in early March 2012.

Viral Video: “The Amazing Spider-Man” Looks Kinda Amazing

in Media on February 8 at 12:15 am PT

Apparently still catches thieves, just like flies.
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Outgoing Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock’s Farewell Letter (And Other Stuff)

in News on February 7 at 1:11 pm PT

Bygones, Roy?
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Four Yahoo Board Members to Depart, Two New Ones Arrive and Three More on the Way (Like I Said)

in News on February 7 at 12:38 pm PT

Yahoo moves chairs around the deck some more.
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Viral Video: Hulu’s Original “Paul, the Male Matchmaker” Set to Debut

in Media on February 7 at 8:57 am PT

Once more into the Internet content series breach!
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Tidbits From the Facebook IPO Filing: I’ll Have What SV VCs Marc Andreessen and Jim Breyer Are Having!

in News on February 6 at 1:44 pm PT

It’s good times for venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, both professionally and personally.
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Yahoo Starts Making Wish List, as Asian Deal Huffs to Finish Line and Board Changes Readied

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, February 6, 2012 at 5:45 am PT

From the Life-Is-Unfair Files: You’re Welcome, Winklevii. Love, Zuck.

Posted by Kara Swisher in Social, February 3, 2012 at 8:40 am PT

During the IPO Quiet Period, Please Enjoy the D Stylings of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg (Video)

Posted by Kara Swisher in D, February 2, 2012 at 4:48 pm PT

Viral Video: Farewell to the No-IPO Mark Zuckerberg

Posted by Kara Swisher in Media, February 2, 2012 at 12:37 am PT

Stop All That Poking: Facebook Filing Temporarily Crashes SEC Web Site

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, February 1, 2012 at 2:28 pm PT

On Its Eighth Birthday, Facebook Files to Raise $5 Billion in Massive IPO (Get Your S-1 Here!)

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, February 1, 2012 at 1:51 pm PT

Meet the New Sony CEO, Kaz Hirai (Video)

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, February 1, 2012 at 10:38 am PT

Go the F**k Back to Sleep, Silicon Valley: Facebook IPO Likely to File Later Today at Earliest

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, February 1, 2012 at 6:36 am PT

Dude, Where’s My Facebook IPO Filing? (Ashton’s on Hold!)

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, February 1, 2012 at 5:50 am PT

AOL Beats Low Expectations, Increasing Ad Revenue and Slowing Total Decline in Q4 (Plus Charts!)

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, February 1, 2012 at 4:26 am PT

The Quiet Man: Meet the Less-Known Face of the Facebook IPO, CFO David Ebersman

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, January 31, 2012 at 5:10 pm PT

Facebook Board Meeting Today for Final IPO Okays

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, January 31, 2012 at 2:41 pm PT

Andreessen & Horowitz on Monster $1.5B Fund: Software (And Giant VCs) Ready to Chomp Everything!

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, January 31, 2012 at 11:23 am PT

What Bubble? Andreessen Horowitz Raises $1.5 Billion Mega-Fund, Its Third.

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, January 31, 2012 at 7:05 am PT

Columbia J-School and Stanford Eng Nab $30M Joint Gift for Media Innovation From Helen Gurley Brown

Posted by Kara Swisher in Media, January 30, 2012 at 10:00 am PT

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