Kara Swisher in Media on May 1, 2013 at 12:43 am PT
Beauty is apparently still in the eye of the beholder.
News Byte
Kara Swisher in Media on April 23, 2013 at 3:00 am PT
Los Angeles-based Talenthouse, a global creative collaboration community with two million members, said that it was launching an “engagement” platform with Adidas’s eyewear, Coca-Cola’s Vitaminwater and Nokia to allow its members to be paired with the mega-brands and be sponsored by them. Talenthouse said that artists will get paid based on engagements that their project and their content generates for those brands, which will be able to “integrate their message directly into the artists’ projects & portfolios and become part of all peer to peer social media conversation.”
Peter Kafka in Media on April 4, 2013 at 7:00 am PT
Like a thumbs-up, except you can use it to buy things.
Kara Swisher in Social on May 31, 2011 at 12:54 am PT
The sale of Myspace by its owner News Corp. is still going, going, going,
gooooooing on…
Kara Swisher in News on March 1, 2011 at 6:15 am PT
Today, the formal program at the famous TED conference begins and runs to Friday, with the theme title: “The Rediscovery of Wonder.”
And, in fact, you might wonder how good a conference has to be for BoomTown to miss the Apple iPad 2 launch in San Francisco tomorrow?
That good.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 11, 2011 at 2:49 pm PT
Let the floodgates open. First it was LinkedIn, and now it is the music-streaming service Pandora that has filed for an initial public offering.
Kara Swisher in News on January 6, 2011 at 6:24 am PT
The iconic singer and performance artist Lady Gaga will be appearing at the Consumer Electronics Show later today to unveil “creations” she came up with for Polaroid, as its creative director.
Gaga said a year ago here that she would be coming up with “prototypes in marrying the fields of fashion/technology/photography innovation.”
Oh, goody. Fishnet stockings that can post pictures to Instagram!
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 17, 2010 at 1:52 pm PT
Zynga has formed a partnership with rapper Dr. Dre, who is using the social gaming phenomenon to promote his first album in more than a decade.
Kara Swisher in News on October 26, 2010 at 10:56 pm PT
Empty bracket or no empty bracket: Will it work?
That’s pretty much the big question at News Corp. tonight, as its much beleaguered social networking site, Myspace, rolls out a new beta version aimed at shifting its fortunes.
And how will it do that? By moving dramatically away from its roots as a social networking site–and far, far away from powerhouse Facebook–and becoming a “social entertainment” hub aimed directly at the Gen Y audience.
Kara Swisher in News on July 22, 2010 at 12:04 am PT
It’s nice to hear enthusiasm on the part of Linkin Park band member Mike Shinoda about an innovative-for-the-music-industry effort to give fans a chance to be part of the iconic Grammy-winning rock band.
While some artists or content creators cringe at the ongoing flood of user-generated material that has drastically changed the industry, Shinoda is hoping to find some real talent via a new online contest, called “Linkin Park, Featuring You,” that gives anyone an opportunity to collaborate with the band to produce an original song based on some of the tracks from the forthcoming single “The Catalyst.”