Kara Swisher in News on November 21, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
The well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur joins Mike Jones at Science.
Kara Swisher in Media on October 31, 2011 at 7:18 pm PT
Tonight at 1 am PT, techies who have nothing else to do — that would be
me! — can click onto a brand new tech site called The Verge.
Kara Swisher in News on October 13, 2011 at 2:00 pm PT
Never heard of Chicago’s Brad Keywell? No longer!
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Kara Swisher in News on May 25, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Ann Lundberg, a top sales exec at Yahoo’s New York office, is joining CafeMom as head of sales. The five-year Yahoo veteran will focus on building the marketplace profile of the social-networking and community site aimed at mothers, which has recently
expanded its offerings to daily deals, as well as announcing an anticipated launch of a site aimed at Hispanic moms.
Kara Swisher in News on May 4, 2011 at 5:27 am PT
CafeMom, a social-networking and community site aimed at mothers, is expanding its offerings to daily deals, as well as announcing an anticipated launch of a site aimed at Hispanic moms.
The deals site has just been launched under the killer URL of Mom.com.
Kara Swisher in News on March 25, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Last night in Redwood City, Chris Shipley–who used to run the famed Demo conference–had a ribbon-cutting for Studio G, a new office for her Guidewire Group aimed at the start-up community.
Here’s the video of the party.
Kara Swisher in News on March 17, 2011 at 4:54 pm PT
Caryn Marooney, the co-founder of one of Silicon Valley’s premier tech communications firms, OutCast Agency, is joining Facebook to lead its tech public relations strategy.
Marooney has actually led the Facebook account for OutCast, which she and Margit Wennmachers built and sold to Next Fifteen Communications Group in 2005 for over $10 million.
Kara Swisher in News on March 15, 2011 at 4:26 pm PT
Last week, Yahoo’s advertising unit got the once-over from its new sales head Wayne Powers. And, this week, its new Audience unit head Mickie Rosen is making a series of executives moves to shake up its powerful news, sports and entertainment sites.
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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 8, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
PlayPhone says it will spend $10 million to promote other developers’ mobile games. In return, the San Jose, Calif.-based company is hoping to attract more game makers to its
social platform, which provides developers tools to integrate community features and virtual goods into mobile applications, similar to offerings from Ngmoco and OpenFeint. The shift to social is important for the the eight-year-old company, which historically is known for selling ringtones and other mobile content.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 2, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
Five months after becoming CEO of Digg at a time of much turmoil, Matt Williams is finding a voice of his own, separate from founder Kevin Rose’s. Williams had what seemed to be a largely successful discussion with the Digg community, posted this week.
