Kara Swisher in News on December 1, 2011 at 2:23 am PT
Whoa, Nelly! How fantastic would it be for Silicon Valley tech legends Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman to battle for control of Yahoo? Too fantastic to actually happen. But one can hope.
Kara Swisher in News on November 29, 2011 at 6:30 am PT
Remedy Health, a New York-based health information company, has bought HealthCentral, a start-up that offers online clinical and patient tools, community and content in a variety of topic areas.
Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 18, 2011 at 11:53 am PT
A man who needs no introduction.
Kara Swisher in News on October 31, 2011 at 5:13 pm PT
The Hamlet of Internet companies asks: To be or not to be? That is the question. Or maybe something else.
Kara Swisher in Media on October 31, 2011 at 11:10 am PT
As video on the Web evolves, Courtney Holt moves to the new-generation production company — which makes and distributes more professional original content to the Internet, mostly via YouTube.
Kara Swisher in News on October 6, 2011 at 2:59 pm PT
I don’t know why I am not just invited to these Yahoo gatherings, since it would make my life a
lot easier.
Kara Swisher in News on October 4, 2011 at 5:15 pm PT
AsiaD is now ready for launch, with a little taste of Apple and the Veep.
Kara Swisher in News on February 8, 2011 at 10:17 am PT
One of the more interesting pieces of news that got pushed deep down in stories in the noisy swirl around AOL’s $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post was the move of its CEO Eric Hippeau back to the investor side.
He’ll be going to Lerer Ventures, which is run by HuffPo co-founder, chairman and major investor Kenneth Lerer, and is contemplating a big expansion of its efforts.
BoomTown talked to both about it today.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 21, 2010 at 10:01 am PT
Twitter announced today it has acquired the talent behind Fluther, a Q&A start-up, in order to beef up its efforts to help users discover content. The company specifically said this is a talent acquisition of four engineers and one designer, and that the Fluther product will remain independent, though mostly unmaintained.
Kara Swisher in News on December 6, 2010 at 11:24 am PT
According to sources close to the situation, the aggressive Russian investment outfit DST Global is out of the running to fund Twitter.
Instead, the prize is almost certainly going to Kleiner Perkins, the legendary Silicon Valley venture firm of Web 1.0 that has been making a big push of late into the Web 2.0 market.
The valuation for the new round–which sources said is well above $150 million–will be from $3.5 billion to $4 billion. There also might be smaller investors in the new round, which could be completed next week.
