Cats

Lions and Tigers and Kittens Playing on Tablets? Oh, My!

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 30, 2011 at 11:12 am PT

I can’t wait to see the first comScore or Nielsen study comparing which animals prefer Android over iOS.

Biggest YouTube Videos of the Year: Rebecca Black, of Course. And Pitbull?

Peter Kafka in Media on December 20, 2011 at 7:20 am PT

Same as it ever was: YouTube users really like cute cats, and cute dogs, and so-bad-they’re-awesome girl singers. But what they really, really like are videos from the big music labels.

I Can Has $30M: LOLcats Become Funny Business

Liz Gannes in Social on January 17, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Would the thought of investing $30 million in a set of WordPress blogs and tools for captioning pictures of cats make you laugh out loud?

BoomTown Decodes Ron Conway's Super Angel Super Fit (So You Don't Have To)!

Kara Swisher in News on September 24, 2010 at 2:57 am PT

Ah, there’s nothing like a manly hissy fit amongst a passel of white dudes in Silicon Valley to open the fall viewing season! In this latest episode of “Glee,” a group of Super Angel Cheerios plot to stop the entrepreneur kids from getting to the valuations they’ve been working so hard to inflate. Enter the Ron.

Viral Video: "That's Why I Chose Yale" (Definitely Not to Learn How to Make Musical Videos)

Kara Swisher in News on February 16, 2010 at 1:06 am PT

Hey kids, let’s put on a show! But in the case of Yale University’s newest admissions video, maybe not so much. An extraordinarily awkward effort to capture the attention of the Facebook generation, it appears to be a kind of homage to television hits “Glee” and “High School Musical” and clocks in at close to 17 minutes in length.

Susan Boyle Sings Again: "Memory" and a Makeover

Kara Swisher in News on May 25, 2009 at 12:44 am PT

Here are the two answers to the key questions you might have about Susan Boyle’s return appearance on “Britain’s Got Talent” last night: Yes and yes. As in: Did the Scottish singing (and Web) sensation nail it again? And, does she look better? Of course, singing “Memory” from “Cats,” Boyle made it to the finals, which are set to take place next Saturday.

Back to the Future: How the New York Times Saw the Web in 1995

Peter Kafka in Media on March 20, 2009 at 7:43 am PT

New York Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. may not have figured out how his paper can adapt to the Web age yet. But give him credit: He’s been thinking about the idea for more than a decade.

Yahoo Annual Meeting Countdown (1 Day to Go!): Let the Memory Live Again?

Kara Swisher in News on July 31, 2008 at 3:00 am PT

Is it just me or does the dire situation of Grizabella the Glamour Cat in the musical “Cats” remind you a little bit too much of what’s been going on with Yahoo and its CEO Jerry Yang over the last year? Thus, BoomTown has decided to make that scraggly cat’s anthem Yahoo’s for its annual meeting tomorrow, because the similarities are simply startling. (Grizabella’s signature song, “Memory” is even wildly purplish, just like the Internet company!)