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Viral Video: The JaneDear Girls Hook Up With the Lip-Synch Phenom on YouTube

Kara Swisher in News on February 16, 2011 at 2:59 am PT

BoomTown is officially voting for the JaneDear Girls, after seeing the hot country duo’s effective use of Keenan Cahill, a.k.a. the weird little lip-synch dude on YouTube. While the pair–Susie Brown and Danelle Leverett–have been rocketing up the country charts with their self-titled debut album, they delivered a rap-style offering, called “Need Ya Vote,” using the odd Cahill’s talents.

Amazon Poised to Make a Major Strategic Investment in LivingSocial to Counter Groupoogle (or Goopon?) Threat

Kara Swisher in News on December 1, 2010 at 1:15 pm PT

With the red-hot acquisition dance between Google and Groupon sucking up all the attention, it’s easy once again to ignore the No. 2 player in the fast-growing social buying space–LivingSocial. But not everyone is. According to sources close to the situation, the Washington, D.C.-based company that also focuses on local deals is in advanced talks for a major strategic investment–as high as $150 million–by online retail giant Amazon, at a very hefty valuation of over one billion dollars, to counter a possible Groupoogle challenge.

Palm, Qualcomm Chiefs Weigh Wireless Future

Ina Fried in Mobile on November 30, 2010 at 6:32 pm PT

Palm-CEO-turned-HP-exec Jon Rubinstein and Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs faced off with Kara Swisher of All Things Digital at a Churchill Club event Tuesday night in an entertaining discussion on the future of mobile tech. Here’s my liveblog of the event.

It's Another Tequila Start-Up: Bob Pittman's New Venture

Kara Swisher in News on October 16, 2009 at 2:14 am PT

Earlier this week, while in New York, BoomTown paid a visit to well-known media and Web exec Bob Pittman to hear about his newest venture. And, as it turned out, it tasted pretty good. That’s because the former MTV wunderkind, AOL top exec and currently, investor in a wide range of media and Web companies, is making tequila instead of Internet sites. Thank God it’s Friday!

Backing Up, Lossless Audio and Genealogy Programs

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on September 16, 2009 at 2:28 pm PT

Walt answers reader questions regarding computer backup, importing CDs into iTunes, and viewing genealogy records on the Mac.

Viral Video: Tim McGraw Tosses Rowdy Fan

Kara Swisher in News on June 27, 2008 at 6:03 am PT

Here’s another viral video that is making the rounds this week of country singer Tim McGraw himself ejecting a rowdy fan from a concert earlier this week. This video, taken by another concert-goer, was from a McGraw performance at the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn, Wash. It shows McGraw hauling a man by the belt out of the front row, after McGraw alleged he saw the man hit a woman.