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Liz Gannes in News on September 9, 2013 at 10:54 am PT
Livefyre has bought Storify, a tool that’s often used by journalists for collecting conversations on Twitter and elsewhere for the purpose of telling stories. The Storify product will continue under its new owner, and will be run by the same team. Building on top of its comment plugin for publishers, Livefyre had already developed its own social content-curation tools, which companies like ours have used —
for instance, at the D11 conference.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 22, 2013 at 1:19 pm PT
Will this move cause CEO Marissa Mayer to focus on media?
Kara Swisher in News on May 13, 2012 at 8:59 am PT
The final shoe — shoe store, really — drops.
Kara Swisher in Media on November 2, 2011 at 10:41 am PT
I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., to check out “Product Runway,” which is the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s attempt to show that it can still innovate.
Kara Swisher in Media on October 28, 2011 at 5:35 am PT
Memo to Flipboard, Pulse, CNN’s Zite and AOL’s Editions: You might want to make some room in the crowded news and social reader space — you’re about to get some bigfoot company.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 25, 2011 at 6:14 am PT
It’s the first board seat ever for Horowitz, who has been a bit busy of late launching the search giant’s first successful social networking product.
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 16, 2011 at 12:02 am PT
Flixster–the popular social movie site whose brands include the Rotten Tomatoes premium reviews site, as well as BuddyTV–is in early acquisition talks with several suitors, including Yahoo, said sources close to the situation.
The price being discussed for the San Francisco-based start-up is between $60 million and $90 million, said several sources, in talks that are “substantive.”