Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 27 at 7:00 am PT
The Internet has forever changed the newspaper industry, the music business and travel agencies. Now it’s real estate’s turn.
Peter Kafka in Media on August 4, 2011 at 7:13 am PT
Like everyone else on the Web, the brainy site will feature video clips it finds elsewhere. Unlike many others, it will ask for permission to use them.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 24, 2011 at 11:00 am PT
When you first roll out of bed and hop onto your laptop (or perhaps you grab your iPad or phone before you roll out of bed), what site or service do you load up first?
Kara Swisher in News on October 25, 2010 at 11:39 am PT
Digg has announced it is laying off 25 of its 67 staffers today, part of an attempt by the San Francisco social news discovery site to rationalize its costs.
In an interview with BoomTown this morning, CEO Matt Williams noted that “the burn rate is just too high” for the company.
Kara Swisher in News on October 25, 2010 at 9:04 am PT
Chas Edwards, the publisher and chief revenue officer for Digg, the social news discovery service, is leaving the San Francisco company, according to sources.
The exec, who came to Digg in May of 2009 from Federated Media, will move to a start-up called Pixazza, a photo-tagging site for advertising, “by enabling consumers to simply mouse over images to learn more and see related products.”
Kara Swisher in News on June 8, 2010 at 6:17 pm PT
The first thing to strike you about the pair of Stanford University graduate students who made the banned and then unbanned news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, is how they look like an advertisement for all that is good about entrepreneurship.
Sweet-natured, slightly naive, energetic and very product focused, they are the last techies you’d choose to be the ones who got the New York Times in enough of a tizzy to force Apple to pull the news aggregator from its App Store.
See for yourself in this video.
Kara Swisher in News on June 8, 2010 at 12:53 am PT
Yesterday morning, the pair of Stanford University graduate students who made the hot news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, were ecstatic to be mentioned first–for being among the most promising developers for the new tablet device–by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in his keynote address to the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.
But by afternoon, that flush of entrepreneurial success had turned sour, when Apple informed the two that Pulse was being pulled from the App Store after it received a written notice from the New York Times Company declaring that “The New York Times Company believes your application named ‘Pulse News Reader’ infringes The New York Times Company’s rights.”
Pulse was down completely by 6:30 pm PT last night.
Kara Swisher in News on May 10, 2010 at 5:15 am PT
BoomTown made a trip recently to Boston, where Walt Mossberg and I talked in front of hundreds of East Coast entrepreneurs and investors at an event put on by General Catalyst Partners.
The appeal for me: Checking back in with former Excite CEO George Bell, who is now a venture capitalist at GCP.
Here’s my interview with him, as well as four start-ups I met with before the event, all of which are not based in Silicon Valley, a relief in and of itself.
Kara Swisher in News on April 26, 2010 at 8:51 am PT
Last week, outside the Facebook f8 developers conference, BoomTown checked out the new 2011 Fiesta model, which will be the first vehicle in which smartphone apps can be voice-controlled via its in-car synching software called SYNC AppLink.
While getting a test, I interviewed the Ford dude–Julius Marchwiki–who has been in all the YouTube videos of late touting its digital prowess.
And, even though he had no Apple iPhone sync and no Barry Manilow to offer, Marchwiki did manage to keep my interest.
Kara Swisher in News on April 21, 2010 at 3:23 am PT
Although serial entrepreneur Al Warms sold his start-up to Yahoo and ultimately left the Internet giant to launch a new one, he is coming back a bit via an interesting partnership.
Warms’s Appolicious is aimed at encouraging discovery and social networking in the mobile apps market.
Now it will carry Yahoo’s brand at the top of its site and be surfaced throughout Yahoo’s news, sports and other powerful media properties.
