Lauren Goode in News on January 18 at 8:06 am PT
Today, an estimated 7,000 Web sites are going dark to protest the SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills. Want to institute your own blackout? There are, of course, apps for that.
Kara Swisher in Media on January 4 at 2:14 am PT
Apple is having a publishing-focused event in New York at the end of the month — simple as that.
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 News on April 28, 2011 at 10:19 am PT
Would it surprise you to know that BoomTown doesn’t really care anymore if TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington sidelines as a blogger while he makes investments in tech companies his tech news site covers? Especially after reading his post yesterday that made a good argument about who he is and, frankly, who he has always been.
But that does not mean his boss, AOL content head Arianna Huffington, doesn’t have some
‘splainin’ to do.
Kara Swisher in News on March 24, 2011 at 9:02 am PT
Pixazza, the Mountain View start-up that has nicknamed itself “AdSense for images,” has added someone who might know a thing or two about it.
Former Googler Elliot Schrage–who is now Facebook’s global communications, marketing and public policy head–is joining the start-up’s board as a strategic adviser and observer.
Kara Swisher in News on March 22, 2011 at 12:50 pm PT
Recently, BoomTown took a walk down digital Memory Lane with Bob Lisbonne, CEO of Pixazza, the photo-tagging service that has nicknamed itself “AdSense for images.”
That’s because Lisbonne used to be a big wheel at Netscape Communications.
We talked about the old days, of course, but more about the new days and his business focused on putting all kinds of advertising within online images.
Voices
Michael Hickins, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 18, 2011 at 4:35 pm PT
Security researchers say that hackers are using the unfolding disaster in Japan by appealing to people’s sense of altruism–or, in some cases, voyeurism–by sending spam email that contain links laden with malicious code. Some of the links are supposed to be of footage of the earthquake or tsunami, some purport to be from relief organizations, while others claim that recipients have inherited $12 million from victims in Japan.
Voices
Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on February 25, 2011 at 10:01 am PT
It’s happened to everyone—the terrible fallout from eating at that unfamiliar restaurant with the spoons that were a little too greasy, or the chicken that was served a little too rare.
New York University junior Max Stoller feels your pain, and built donteat.at to keep his fellow New Yorkers out of unclean restaurants and the gastric turmoil that inevitably follows.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 10, 2011 at 1:20 pm PT
This time it’s Tim Bray casting stones in a since-deleted tweet. However, the real problem for Nokia and Microsoft isn’t Google’s words. It’s Android and its growing share of the smartphone market.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 9, 2011 at 10:51 am PT
One of the few to carry the title Distinguished Engineer, he’s credited with getting Windows development back on track, then creating its cloud computing platform.
