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Early Adopter: The Daytum iPhone App Visualizes Your Life (and Lunch) as Data

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on January 10, 2011 at 11:03 am PT

Want to do some serious numerical navel-gazing like the pros? Need to know how many eggrolls you’ve eaten this year? How about finding out at what bus station you are most likely to give change away? Daytum might be the app for that.

Yahoo Announces Deep Integration Partnership With Social Gaming Start-Up Zynga

Kara Swisher in News on May 26, 2010 at 8:15 am PT

Yahoo announced a partnership to weave Zynga throughout its service this morning. BoomTown actually called Zynga CEO Mark Pincus and asked him specifically about this deal last week and he denied it completely, not even relying on a more appropriate “no comment.” In fact, he noted expansively that Yahoo had completely missed the boat in social gaming and that such a deal was probably a good idea to keep it relevant in the space. That’s the truth, actually. And the move by the gaming start-up is an attempt to increase distribution of its popular games, such as FarmVille, beyond Facebook.

Groupon's Andrew Mason Speaks!

Kara Swisher in News on March 4, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

My 2010 start-up that passes the slightly-less-raised-eyebrow test is Groupon, a group-based social buying service that nabbed another $30 million in funding in December. So earlier this week, I sat down with Groupon’s Midwesternly-nice Andrew Mason, 29, to talk about where the start-up is headed with its pile of dough and growing base of consumers who want to make a deal.

Yahoo Is Trying to Connect to the Social Boom Without Stepping in It Like Google Buzz

Kara Swisher in News on February 24, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

Is there more than one way to skin a social graph? Yesterday, Yahoo took another step in its efforts to play fast catch-up in the social networking arena, by dramatically expanding its relationship with Twitter and integrating the microblogging service broadly throughout its Web site, in much the same way it did recently with Facebook. Some think outsourcing the job to more capable companies is yet another monument to Yahoo’s failure at its own much touted plans to socialize itself. And while this is true to a large extent, BoomTown is not so sure it’s a bad idea, especially compared with the flailing experienced by Google recently from its own attempts to compete with Facebook and Twitter via the rollout of Google Buzz.

Google Outside Counsel Clearly Well-Prepared for FTC Fight Over Apple Board Seat–See This Internal Doc

John Paczkowski in News on May 6, 2009 at 10:46 am PT

If the Federal Trade Commission takes issue with Google and Apple’s interlocking boards, Google will be well prepared. Last October, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati–the company’s outside law firm–gave a presentation on this very issue. Ironic, yeah? Click through to read the document in its entirety.