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BoomTown's 1998 Rob Glaser Profile: A Web Pioneer Does a Delicate Dance With Microsoft

Kara Swisher in News on January 14, 2010 at 11:48 am PT

BoomTown did an interview last night with outgoing RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser after the announcement yesterday of his departure from the company he founded and led for 16 years. That will be posted later today, but here is a profile I wrote about Glaser when I was covering the Internet for The Wall Street Journal. It’s from Feb. 12, 1998, and focuses on Glaser’s decidedly complicated relationship with his former employer, Microsoft.

If "Oprah"-Approved Zuckerberg Can't Buy Twitter, Co-Opting It Is the Next Best Thing!

Kara Swisher in News on March 13, 2009 at 8:18 pm PT

Fresh from his puppy dog-esque “Oprah” interview, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made good use of the press the talk show appearance engendered to hawk his wares, most especially new features the hot social-networking site has been coming out with of late. Including some that look suspiciously like Twitter, which declined an acquisition offer from Facebook last year. But what tool did the ever-clever Zuckerberg also use yesterday to flack his products? Twitter, of course! Here is his tweet in question and also a snippet of his appearance with Oprah too.