Kara Swisher in News on May 13 at 8:59 am PT
The final shoe — shoe store, really — drops.
Kara Swisher in News on May 9 at 6:00 am PT
There are pretty good odds, but it’s a gamble for the activist investor to find a way to top his last act.
Kara Swisher in News on May 6 at 8:27 pm PT
On tonight’s Silicon Valley version of “Game of Thrones,” King Scott Thompson tries to assuage, while the board potentates sharpen their knives.
Kara Swisher in Social on February 14 at 9:01 pm PT
Here’s a very intriguing new social networking site called CareZone, aimed at helping people managing chronic health care issues. (I can tell you, based on my own recent scare, it’s needed.)
Kara Swisher in Media on December 7, 2011 at 9:43 am PT
Still no sale or investment deal. No new CEO. No Asia resolution. And, perhaps most importantly, no clearly articulated strategy going forward.
Other than that …
Kara Swisher in News on August 8, 2011 at 4:41 pm PT
Could the bad stock market mean worse for tech stocks?
Yes, indeedy.
Voices
Tiernan Ray, Blogger, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on March 16, 2011 at 10:30 am PT
Shares of Apple are down sharply after JMP Securities analyst Alex Gauna today cut his rating on the stock to Market Perform from Outperform, writing that the crisis in Japan threatens to compound what seems already to have been a deceleration in production at Apple’s main contract assembler, Hon Hai Precision.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 6, 2011 at 7:48 am PT
Good news, right? Yes, but it’s complicated by the weakness of the U.S. dollar.
Kara Swisher in News on November 8, 2010 at 11:35 am PT
BoomTown usually does not get all weepy over the departure of public relations folks at Internet companies, in that cynical I’ve-seen-’em-come-and-I’ve-seen-’em-go kind of way.
But the leaving of Brandee Barker from Facebook most certainly elicited a small single tear of sadness this morning, when she called into
All Things Digital Global HQ to say she would no longer be tossing me her patented–and very endearing–hand-in-the-face “no comment” for the powerful social networking site.
After four long and tumultuous years, she leaves Facebook Dec. 10.
Voices
Daisuke Wakabayashi and Jung-Ah Lee, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 28, 2010 at 11:33 am PT
Sharp Corp. and LG Electronics Inc. warned that a glut of inventory for flat-panel display televisions will continue to pressure prices during the critical year-end holiday shopping period.
The inventory build-up of liquid crystal display televisions is the result of a surge in production by global TV makers this year following a period of reduced output in the aftermath of the financial crisis, when consumer spending plunged.
