10 posts and columns on building

Here’s Zynga’s Filing on $228M HQ Building Deal (For All You Real Estate Types)

in News on March 5 at 5:40 pm PT

The online gaming company has fixed it up real pretty.
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Make the Rent Check Out to "Google"

in Media on December 3, 2010 at 4:24 am PT

See? Google isn’t a one-trick pony, after all: The search giant is going to become a landlord, after spending $1.9 billion on a building that takes up an entire New York City block. One interesting tenant: Spotify.

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Here's How That $65 Apple iPad DODOcase Is Made (Plus a Look at the New Kindle Cover)

in News on November 18, 2010 at 12:55 pm PT

Owners of the Apple iPad are usually looking for a case with a certain analog aesthetic–and, as it turns out, they are willing to pay for it.

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Google Among Bidders for $2 Billion Building

in News on October 28, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Google Inc. is a front runner to buy the massive building it occupies as its New York City headquarters in a deal that could be worth nearly $2 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.

BoomTown as Judge Judy, Um, Judge BigApps

in News on October 13, 2010 at 2:37 am PT

With All Things Digital Global HQ located in the heart of the Castro in San Francisco, BoomTown tries hard not to judge–even that dude who likes to come into the Starbucks naked. But I made an exception to be a judge for an innovative civic geek contest that New York City is doing for the second year called BigApps 2.0, opening up a whole mess of government information and letting software developers have at it. And how much do you want to bet there will be a bed-bug app submitted this year?

Tonight the Lights Go Down on Netscape's Silicon Valley HQ

in News on August 26, 2010 at 12:04 pm PT

With a flick of the switch today at 5 pm PT, a critical chapter in Silicon Valley will finally go dark. That’s when AOL officially moves out of the legendary HQ buildings of Netscape Communications in Mountain View, Calif.–along Ellis Street and East Middlefield Road–to new, snappier digs it is subleasing from Google in Palo Alto on Page Mill Road. Sigh–BoomTown hates change.

That’s Apple’s New Data Center? Where’s the Giant Glass Cube?

in News on February 22, 2010 at 2:01 pm PT

When plans for it were first announced, Apple’s North Carolina data center was described as “as big as they come” and in more colloquial parlance, as “big-assed.” And that is truly the case, as this brief aerial video posted to YouTube demonstrates.

Thanks, iPhone: 2,000 Percent Increase in Bay Area Data Traffic Since 2008, Says AT&T

in News on November 17, 2009 at 2:36 pm PT

Bay Area iPhone users, relief is on the way. AT&T has almost completed a $65 million upgrade to its network in the region. The carrier has upgraded close to 850 cell sites in an effort to better handle the massive surge in data traffic it has seen in and around San Francisco since the debut of iPhone. And make no mistake: The surge has been massive.
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Kara Tours the New Facebook HQ (And Gets Ripped): The Uncut Video!

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.
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Kara Visits the NYT's Saul Hansell (and Gets the Non-Mortgaged Tour of the New HQ)!

in News on December 9, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

If BoomTown had known on my recent visit that the New York Times was trying to borrow money, using its spanking new building as collateral, I might have brought a big bag of greenbacks with me just to say I held a mortgage on the stunning edifice. No matter, as I got a most excellent free tour of the Renzo Piano-designed building at 40th Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan and lunch last week from the Times’s longtime and sharp tech reporter Saul Hansell, with whom I did a video interview about the state of the Web and more.