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Viral Video: Andy Rooney, Grump in Peace

Kara Swisher in Media on November 8, 2011 at 12:16 am PT

The legendary “60 Minutes” curmudgeon gave an interview a month before he died, and was just as irascible as ever. Thank goodness.

BoomTown Talks About Smartphones and the Google Borg on “Nightline”

Kara Swisher in News on December 24, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

The fine folks at ABC’s “Nightline” news program were recently in Silicon Valley on a quest to find out whassup with this smartphone war going on between Google’s Android operating system and the iPhone from Apple. Here’s the video.

"60 Minutes": Does Mark Zuckerberg Want to "Own" the Internet? (Plus New Profiles on Facebook!)

Kara Swisher in News on December 5, 2010 at 11:28 am PT

Here is a sneak peak at the “60 Minutes” piece that will air tonight at 7 pm PT on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In it, he shows off another redo of the profiles, which put photos front and center. Veteran CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl asks Zuckerberg in the clip (after the jump) if he wants to own the Internet–which, as usual, Zuckerberg does not exactly answer.

The New Yorker Takes on Hollywood Power Blogger Nikki Finke

Peter Kafka in Media on October 4, 2009 at 1:39 pm PT

Yet more–a lot of ink–on Nikki Finke, Hollywood’s best-read and most feared blogger. What does Finke think? “Amusing.” Meanwhile, what about Finke’s plans to hire a New York correspondent?