Alice in Wonderland

Third Point’s Loeb to Yahoo About Board Rejection: “Illogical Alice-in-Wonderland World”

Kara Swisher in News on March 28 at 10:45 am PT

Time to go down another rabbit hole!

"Hit Me Up" Was Facebook's Breakout Slang in 2010

Liz Gannes in Social on December 14, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Other items besides Justin Bieber made it onto Facebook’s list of 2010 trends in status messages. But don’t think for a second that Bieber didn’t earn his spot on yet another year-end roundup.

Good News for Netflix Web Users: Disney Re-Ups With Starz

Peter Kafka in Media on March 11, 2010 at 9:51 am PT

Premium TV network Starz Entertainment has re-upped with Disney on its distribution deal, assuring access to the studio’s movies through 2015. Why do you care? Because the deal means Starz keeps the digital rights to the studio’s films, which means that Netflix streaming video users will be able to watch the movies.

Liveblogging Fortune Brainstorm Tech: Disney CEO Bob Iger Has "One Hand in the Present and One Hand in the Future"

Kara Swisher in News on July 22, 2009 at 4:55 pm PT

Bob Iger, CEO of the Walt Disney Company, is the kickoff interview onstage at Fortune magazine’s Brainstorm Tech conference, which is taking place over the next three days in Pasadena, Calif. The event is packed full of Web and media luminaries. So, BoomTown will be sitting in the front row and liveblogging some of the sessions here, including this one, titled, “Digital Kingdom: New Business Models for a Media Giant.” Translation: When you Twitter upon a star, makes a–big–difference what you earn. Which, right now, is not a whole lot, as Iger and others in the media business know all too well.