Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 12, 2011 at 3:02 pm PT
Yext wants to be a one-stop shop for keeping business listings updated across multiple services.
Kara Swisher in News on October 1, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT
Here’s some electric weekend reading for those interested in the push-and-pull between venture investors and start-ups in the frothy Web 2.0 environment.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on February 16, 2011 at 3:20 pm PT
Walt answers readers’ questions on starting a blog, sleeping MacBooks and GSM phones.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 9, 2011 at 10:51 am PT
One of the few to carry the title Distinguished Engineer, he’s credited with getting Windows development back on track, then creating its cloud computing platform.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 27, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Netflix revealed it is in the process of implementing “an extensive Facebook integration” on Wednesday, marking a significant change from its previous absence from the social Web.
Kara Swisher in News on January 18, 2011 at 1:20 am PT
It’s definitely an oldie–from a 2005 speech that Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs gave at Stanford University, after recovering from his first bout with pancreatic cancer–but a truly good one.
BoomTown posted it last time there was a hubbub around what and what was not known about his poor health in 2009.
It’s more pertinent than ever.
Kara Swisher in D at CES on January 8, 2011 at 12:25 am PT
Earlier tonight, it was revealed in numerous news reports that Twitter had been ordered by a U.S. federal judge to turn over documents related to several people involved with WikiLeaks.
Here’s what Twitter had to say to BoomTown in response, as well as what CEO Dick Costolo said onstage yesterday at the
D@CES event about the importance of the free flow of information.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 14, 2010 at 12:43 pm PT
The residual effects of the Gawker password kerfuffle continue to spread to other sites. The lesson in all this? Don’t re-use passwords!
Peter Kafka in Media on December 14, 2010 at 9:37 am PT
Gawker Media is still cleaning up the mess left by a hacker attack this weekend, but now other sites have their own work to do. Today’s example: LinkedIn temporarily disabled the accounts of users whose email accounts were exposed during Gawkergate.
News Byte
Voices in News on November 19, 2010 at 8:53 am PT
Amazon today began promoting
a new gift idea that should appeal to the literate (as well as to procrastinators looking for a last-minute alternative to the ever-popular “back-rub coupon”)–
Kindle e-books can now be given to anyone with an e-mail address. And you don’t have to worry about whether the recipient owns a Kindle device per se, because a bunch of free reader apps make a Kindle out of pretty much anything with a screen.
