Kara Swisher in Media on June 20, 2013 at 10:20 am PT
Now, with pretty moving pictures.
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Jason Del Rey in Commerce on May 28, 2013 at 3:00 am PT
The mobile payments movement is getting another player — this time in Mexico. Clip, founded by two former PayPal employees, says it has received $1.5 million to bring its mobile credit card reader and software to merchants in Mexico. The company said it plans to eventually expand beyond Mexico to other countries with large Spanish-speaking populations, including the U.S. Investors include 500 Startups, Accion, Alta Ventures and PlaySpan founder Karl Mehta.
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Kara Swisher in Media on April 24, 2013 at 5:07 pm PT
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said in a
blog post that the Silicon Valley Internet giant had reached an agreement with Broadway Video to “feature Saturday Night Live content exclusively on Yahoo! The partnership gives Yahoo! users exclusive access to the entire 38-year archive of SNL content as well as clips from the current season.” While a lot of the content has already been widely available across the Web (on Hulu and NBC.com, for example) for years — thus, kind of stretching the idea of “exclusive” a bit — having it all in another place online, as the Church Lady says: “Isn’t that
special?”
Kara Swisher in Media on November 28, 2012 at 8:00 am PT
The former Yahoo exec joins the Venice, Calif.-based video start-up, which is about to celebrate one billion monthly views.
Kara Swisher in Media on October 25, 2012 at 8:45 am PT
Hey kids, Dave is
always disrespectful to me, too! (But I like it.)
Kara Swisher in Mobile on November 9, 2011 at 9:30 am PT
Why Apple put the popular software technology out to pasture.
Kara Swisher in Commerce on August 30, 2011 at 7:30 am PT
Didn’t you get the memo? Because it’s all in the raspberry of a memo the social buying site sent out to — well, everyone — last week.
Kara Swisher in Media on June 16, 2011 at 12:58 am PT
What more is there to say, except this viral video of actor Samuel L. Jackson reading a viral “children’s” book is hysterical.
Written by Adam Mansbach, the book has developed a cult following — though it’s more for parents than for their children, of course.
Kara Swisher in Media on June 15, 2011 at 11:35 am PT
A documentary about the New York Times and its fight to survive the onslaught of the Internet called “Page One: Inside the New York Times” opens Friday.
So, it seemed like a good idea to talk to the film’s star, media columnist David Carr, to find out what he thinks will happen to the Gray Lady in the multi-colored digital future.