Kara Swisher

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Xobni’s Jeff Bonforte Officially Running Yahoo’s Communications Products

Kevin Spacey Goes All House-of-Cards on Hollywood (Video)

Posted by Kara Swisher in Media, August 26, 2013 at 8:30 am PT

Ballmer Departure From Microsoft Was More Sudden Than Portrayed by the Company

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, August 25, 2013 at 7:14 pm PT

Yahoo Product Exec Mike Kerns Gets Big Promotion to Run Homepage and Verticals

Uber Filing in Delaware Shows TPG Investment at $3.5 Billion Valuation; Google Ventures Also In

Posted by Kara Swisher in Commerce, August 22, 2013 at 2:43 pm PT

Is Yahoo’s Mayer Turning Into a Media Mogul With Katie Couric Web Video Deal?

Posted by Kara Swisher in Media, August 22, 2013 at 10:24 am PT

Former Windows Head Sinofsky Joins Andreessen Horowitz as Board Partner

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, August 22, 2013 at 7:20 am PT

Ashton Kutcher on “Jobs”: “I Loved a Man I Never Knew”

Posted by Kara Swisher in Media, August 19, 2013 at 2:16 pm PT

GoDaddy Acquires Merchant “Finder” Startup Locu for $70 Million

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, August 19, 2013 at 11:29 am PT

AOL and Yahoo Settle Differences Over Talent Raid of Top Sales Exec Ned Brody

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, August 15, 2013 at 9:57 am PT

Student Hub Chegg Files for IPO, Aiming to Raise $150 Million; Expands Board

Posted by Kara Swisher in Commerce, August 14, 2013 at 10:45 am PT

Dear Jeff Bezos, Here’s What I Saw as an Analog Nobody in the Mailroom of the Washington Post

Posted by Kara Swisher in Media, August 7, 2013 at 12:41 pm PT

The Color Purple: Yahoo Tries to Excite Consumers With Month-Long New Logo Reveal

Posted by Kara Swisher in Media, August 6, 2013 at 11:08 pm PT

Yahoo’s Flickr Gets New Leader From Google — Longtime Mayer Favorite Bernardo Hernández

Posted by Kara Swisher in Media, August 6, 2013 at 5:23 pm PT

“Luminary” Access Site IfOnly Officially Launches With $3M in Funding From Tech Luminaries

Posted by Kara Swisher in Commerce, August 3, 2013 at 12:55 pm PT

Rubicon’s Addante Talks About Competing with Google, New Hires and Possible IPO (Video)

Posted by Kara Swisher in Media, August 2, 2013 at 3:59 pm PT

Yahoo Paid $60M to $70M for Rockmelt — Will Dump Browser and Use Tech to Better Deliver Its Media and Mobile Properties

Posted by Kara Swisher in Social, August 2, 2013 at 10:29 am PT

Yahoo Paid Between $35M and $40M for Lexity E-Commerce App Platform

Yahoo Buys E-Commerce App Platform Startup Lexity (Like ATD Said)

Posted by Kara Swisher in Commerce, July 31, 2013 at 9:45 am PT

Rob Glaser Talks About New Social Casino Sweepstakes — Will It Be RealNetworks’ Golden Ticket? (Video)

Posted by Kara Swisher in Commerce, July 31, 2013 at 9:00 am PT

Andreessen Horowitz’s First GP — John O’Farrell — Moves Out of Investing and Into Advisory Role

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, July 30, 2013 at 2:04 pm PT

Former Mozilla CEO Kovacs to Head Security Software Firm AVG Technologies

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, July 30, 2013 at 4:00 am PT

Another Top Yahoo Exec to Step Down — SVP Ops David Dibble Quits Job, but Remains Adviser to CEO Mayer

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, July 29, 2013 at 2:36 pm PT

Atlantic Media Loses Digital Driver Justin Smith to Bloomberg

Posted by Kara Swisher in Media, July 28, 2013 at 5:46 pm PT

Franken-Yahoo No. 19? Yahoo Eyes E-Commerce App Platform Lexity.

Posted by Kara Swisher in News, July 28, 2013 at 4:06 pm PT

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Another gadget you don’t really need. Will not work once you get it home. New model out in 4 weeks. Battery life is too short to be of any use.

— From the fact sheet for a fake product entitled Useless Plasticbox 1.2 (an actual empty plastic box) placed in L.A.-area Best Buy stores by an artist called Plastic Jesus