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Liveblogging the New Yahoo CEO Call: You Might Want to Refrain From Cussing, Scott!

Kara Swisher in News on January 4 at 7:01 am PT

Mind your P’s and Q’s and Y’s too!

Apple's Jobs Tops BoomTown's 10 Most Fascinating Techies in 2010 Survey

Kara Swisher in News on January 3, 2011 at 8:02 am PT

Of course, he won. Dominating tech’s mindshare and press coverage in 2010, Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs also handily took the No. 1 slot of a reader poll conducted by BoomTown in the last days of year. No one else even came close.

When You Wish Upon a List

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on November 30, 2010 at 9:05 pm PT

Katie takes a look at some online services that could help you–or those shopping for you–find the right gifts this holiday season.

Exclusive: Meebo Raises $25M More

Liz Gannes in Social on November 16, 2010 at 2:43 pm PT

Meebo has nearly completed a $25 million round of funding led by Khosla Ventures, with Khosla partner Gideon Yu becoming a board observer. This is the Web-sharing toolmaker’s Series D round, and will be announced by Khosla in a speech at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this afternoon. Existing backers such as Sequoia Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson are also participating in the round, which brings Meebo to total funding of more than $60 million.

Playboy Goes Geo-Local With Scout App, Even as Iconic Media Company Attempts Turnaround

Kara Swisher in News on November 10, 2010 at 6:00 am PT

How about some check-ins at the Playboy Mansion? That’s not exactly on the menu for a new mobile application being launched by the iconic adult-oriented media company today, called Scout (although BoomTown wishes it were). Powered by Xtify’s geolocation push notification technology, Scout will be available first in New York and Los Angeles, and initially only on smartphones using Google’s Android mobile operating system.

Liveblogging the Geo-Location Announcement: Oh, the Facebook "Places" You'll Go

Kara Swisher in News on August 18, 2010 at 4:28 pm PT

BoomTown motored on down the lovely Highway 280 in Silicon Valley to Facebook to hear execs talk about a new geo-location feature the powerful social networking site is rolling out. The new name of the service, which will be deeply integrated into its current update system, as I reported earlier, will be “Places.” There will be no games, no mayors and no special discounts either in Facebook Places–just plain and simple checking in and, presumably, taking names.

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IPhone Finder's Attorney Speaks

Yukari Iwatani Kane, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 30, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

The attorney representing the man who found the iPhone prototype that tech blog Gizmodo posted stories and photos about disclosed his identity as Brian Hogan, a 21-year-old Redwood City, Calif., college student.

A Modest Proposal: Please Leave the Lost iPhone Dude Alone

Kara Swisher in News on April 23, 2010 at 7:37 am PT

Last night, I tweeted: “Good god, pls stop egregiously using this poor lost iphone dude for cheap traffic…sadly, I have to link to explain: http://bit.ly/cK28zb.” The link led to yet another post on the Web site Gizmodo, owned by Gawker Media, which bought a stolen prototype iPhone 4G from a still unnamed man who filched it after an Apple engineer left it in a Silicon Valley bar by accident. I’m not holding my breath for the Web site to do the right thing.

Is This Apple’s Next iPhone?

John Paczkowski in Mobile on April 19, 2010 at 7:31 am PT

Gizmodo claims it is and it certainly appears to be a legitimate Apple prototype. “Found” in a bar in Redwood City, Calif., the device boasts a number of new features. Among them: a front-facing camera and slick new design.