Barbara Walters

Survey: Who Are the 10 Most Interesting People in Tech in 2010?

Kara Swisher in News on December 13, 2010 at 8:07 am PT

Last week, Barbara Walters did her annual television show “The 10 Most Fascinating People” of the past year. Among the riveting folks that the veteran ABC interviewer sat down was the unbearable cast from “Jersey Shore.” Tech can do better than that, smushing or not.

Liveblogging the Unveiling of the SFund at Facebook (With Guest Stars: Kleiner, Amazon and Zynga)

Kara Swisher in News on October 21, 2010 at 10:44 am PT

BoomTown had to park a badillion miles away from Facebook’s suburban HQ in Palo Alto, and hoofed it there for a press event that unveiled the sFund. What’s that? A $250 million fund for social start-ups. Party on.

Palin Nears One Million Facebook Fans, While Lagging on Twitter

Kara Swisher in News on November 17, 2009 at 12:06 am PT

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is certainly giving her Facebook fan page a workout this week, as she nears one million fans. Using the site to flack her new book, “Going Rogue,” which comes out officially today, it got a big boost from her interview today with Oprah Winfrey, clocking in at close to 995,000 fans last night. In comparison, her Twitter page was as empty of followers as the great outdoors.

What Hath Flip Wrought?–The Ghoul Edition

Kara Swisher in News on July 9, 2009 at 6:06 am PT

Earlier this week, BoomTown pointed out how Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers was captured doing duck calls on the Flip digital video camera, made by the start-up his company bought in March for $590 million. That was an adorable use of the consumer electronic device. But in the not-so-cute department, I submit this photo at right. Sitting next to her boss, Barbara Walters, an ABC producer used it to ghoulishly take shots of the kids of pop legend Michael Jackson memorial service on Monday.

Twitter Business Plan Count-Up: Day 1!

Kara Swisher in News on March 5, 2009 at 6:08 am PT

Today, Twitter’s investors are in rainy San Francisco for a board meeting of the hyped microblogging service, where they will presumably discuss revenue options that the start-up keeps promising are coming soon. Right now, Twitter has no revenues. Well, why wait? As with BoomTown’s 100-Day Yahoo Countdown, which was initiated here after former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said he was taking that many days to rethink Yahoo from top to bottom, it’s just about time for a Twitter Count-Up to come up with some ka-ching ideas.