Kara Swisher in Media on July 19, 2011 at 6:36 am PT
News Corp. CEO and majordomo Rupert Murdoch tells British lawmakers he is sorry on the “most humble day of my life”, survives a surprise attack and loses his jacket.
Other than that, the hearing turned into a what
didn’t the Murdochs know and when
didn’t they know it Q&A session.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 12, 2011 at 12:12 am PT
For years now, it looked like the tousled adorkability and winsome charms of British movie star Hugh Grant were beginning to grow long in the tooth.
That is, until the phone-hacking scandal in Britain — with News Corp.-owned News of the World’s editors, reporters and managers accused of serious misconduct — got really going in recent weeks. And so did Grant.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 6, 2011 at 2:49 am PT
The U.K. version of the Huffington Post, which has been expected, went live today.
It is the site’s first major international expansion beyond North America (Canada was first).
And, while the content is aimed at the audience there, it will still have the usual HuffPo mix of saucy news, videos and blogs.
Except with a charming British accent.
Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 3:43 am PT
In an interview BoomTown did yesterday with Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving–the video of which will be posted later today–at the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s HQ in Sunnyvale, he managed to actually give me some news to report: the hire of crackerjack user experience designer Tim Parsey as SVP of User Experience Design.
Kara Swisher in News on February 10, 2011 at 12:17 am PT
While BoomTown usually does a video here, this photo that was just released of actress Meryl Streep in the guise of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is freaky.
As in freaky accurate.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 7, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
There’s been a lot of attention in recent days paid to Microsoft’s creation of a version of Windows for ARM chips from TI, Qualcomm and Nvidia. But what do you know about ARM, the company behind all those chips designs?
Peter Kafka in Media on November 4, 2010 at 11:52 am PT
Psst. Wanna buy a cool Web address?
Guardian Media has one for sale. The British publisher is peddling the “Inside.com” domain name, people familiar with the company tell me. Asking price, I’m told, is something north of $100,000.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 3, 2010 at 2:53 pm PT
That big Myspace relaunch we read about last week? That’s all fine and good.
But the troubled Web property is a…really troubled Web property, its News Corp. parent stressed today. And it needs to get its act together before it gets kicked off campus.
Kara Swisher in News on October 28, 2010 at 12:13 am PT
The music video for this original song for the Disney movie sequel, which is essentially about being inside a really cool videogame with mean people. In 3-D. Riding wild motorcycles. And wearing weird glowing catsuits.
Which is what BoomTown does every weekend.
