Kara Swisher in Media on August 8, 2011 at 3:51 pm PT
Is another “disruptive” marketing company coming to Silicon Valley?
John Paczkowski in News on March 31, 2011 at 3:00 am PT
Allison Johnson, who’s served as Apple’s vice president of worldwide marketing communications since 2005, is leaving the company, according to several sources, for a new Silicon Valley communications firm with a former Facebook PR exec.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 12, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
Alison “Ali” Rosenthal, a veteran of the Facebook business development team, will leave the company at the end of this week, she told NetworkEffect.
Kara Swisher in News on December 5, 2010 at 11:28 am PT
Here is a sneak peak at the “60 Minutes” piece that will air tonight at 7 pm PT on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
In it, he shows off another redo of the profiles, which put photos front and center.
Veteran CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl asks Zuckerberg in the clip (after the jump) if he wants to own the Internet–which, as usual, Zuckerberg does not exactly answer.
Kara Swisher in News on November 8, 2010 at 11:35 am PT
BoomTown usually does not get all weepy over the departure of public relations folks at Internet companies, in that cynical I’ve-seen-’em-come-and-I’ve-seen-’em-go kind of way.
But the leaving of Brandee Barker from Facebook most certainly elicited a small single tear of sadness this morning, when she called into
All Things Digital Global HQ to say she would no longer be tossing me her patented–and very endearing–hand-in-the-face “no comment” for the powerful social networking site.
After four long and tumultuous years, she leaves Facebook Dec. 10.
Kara Swisher in News on November 3, 2010 at 10:55 am PT
BoomTown arrived late to the Facebook mobile event for the press due to traffic related to the parade for the San Francisco Giants’ World Series victory–and where I would much rather be right now.
Go Giants!
In any case, I am here in the cafeteria of Facebook again, where the company continues its attempts to take over the known digital universe before Google does.
The latest parry: Single sign-on!
Kara Swisher in News on April 22, 2010 at 7:15 am PT
Here is a video BoomTown did yesterday at Facebook’s bustling f8 developers conference in San Francisco.
At a press conference at the Silicon Valley social networking event, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg–trying mightily not to answer a question I proffered about the competitive landscape–said I wrote “mean” posts.
Oh, Mark, man up or get a big dose of a sense of humor from your delightful sister, Randi.
In any case, I hope Zuckerberg enjoys these interviews I did with many of his minions at f8.
Kara Swisher in News on January 17, 2010 at 11:59 pm PT
Who says Facebook can’t be an online content company too?
Not the passel of folks from the social networking behemoth, who plucked, primped and transformed themselves into a pack of glamorous nerds to hit the red carpet at the Golden Globes Awards ceremony in Beverly Hills earlier tonight.
In other words: Silicon Valley meets
Silicone Valley!
Kara Swisher in News on August 13, 2009 at 6:07 am PT
Last night, BoomTown moderated a really interesting panel for an organization called Girls in Tech, titled “Journalism 2.0 RoundTable.”
Girls in Tech describes itself as a “social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent & influential women.”
With those lofty requirements–combined with the fact that I was a girl when we had yet to land on the moon–I have no idea what I was doing there.
Kara Swisher in News on June 15, 2009 at 5:00 pm PT
Last week, in anticipation of Facebook’s Press Open House tonight for its spanking new HQ in Palo Alto, Calif., BoomTown hightailed it down there for an early look-see at what the social-networking site is doing with all that dough it collected from Microsoft and the Russians.
Moving into a new crib, for one thing!
I got an extra-special tour of the new 150,000-square-foot building, which brings more than 900 employees together at last, by Facebook’s long-suffering–mostly due to my being annoying, I know!–PR honcho, Brandee Barker.
So, much like the tour I did recently with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone of its San Francisco HQ, here is a video of Facebook’s new digs.
