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Timehop’s Next Stop Could Be Your Calendar

Lauren Goode in Social on February 15 at 1:41 pm PT

Timehop taps into your social networks to remind you what you did a year ago today. But the start-up is starting to look beyond social.

Jawbone Debuts UP, Which Tracks, Well, You (Video)

Kara Swisher in News on November 2, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT

It’s UP to you to get in better shape.

Groupon’s Third (And Quieter) Co-Founder Brad Keywell Talks About Chicago Ideas Week (Video)

Kara Swisher in News on October 13, 2011 at 2:00 pm PT

Never heard of Chicago’s Brad Keywell? No longer!

Exclusive: Groupon’s Mason Tells Troops in Feisty Internal Memo: “It Looks Good.”

Kara Swisher in Commerce on August 25, 2011 at 3:02 pm PT

Facing a barrage of negative press about its upcoming IPO, Groupon CEO and co-founder Andrew Mason took up a pen to counter critics of the social buying service in a pugnacious email to employees.

Liveblogging Yahoo's Q1 Earnings Call: Get Me to Funky Town

Kara Swisher in News on April 19, 2011 at 2:21 pm PT

MicroHoo is funky! At least according to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz on the Silicon Valley search giant’s first-quarter earnings conference call about its recent financial performance. Yahoo’s results showed a continued worrisome revenue growth stall, due in large part to a search advertising fall-off, and a still-turning turnaround.

Stephen Colbert Rips Rupert Murdoch, Rips Off Arianna Huffington

Peter Kafka in Media on February 17, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

The News Corp. CEO has “the upper body strength of a cricket” and a tablet newspaper overly obsessed with very old dogs, he said. Plus! Meet the “Colbuffington Re-Post”.

Blogs, MacBooks and GSM phones

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on February 16, 2011 at 3:20 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ questions on starting a blog, sleeping MacBooks and GSM phones.

News Corp.'s Daily iPad Newspaper Launching "In the Next Few Weeks"

Peter Kafka in Media on January 25, 2011 at 7:18 am PT

Which is basically what we heard last week. Still, it’s the first public quasi-launch date we’ve heard from a News Corp. official. Inside: A sneak peek at something the Daily won’t feature at launch, but will eventually.

Google Willing to Start From Scratch to Enter Daily Deals Market

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 21, 2011 at 12:20 am PT

Google appears to be entering the daily deals business on its own after Groupon rejected its jaw-dropping $6 billion buyout offer.

Groupon Poised to Strike Partnership With China's Tencent, in Key Global Expansion Move

Kara Swisher in News on January 16, 2011 at 3:00 pm PT

Groupon is in talks with Chinese Internet giant Tencent to form a partnership to accelerate its effort in the critical Asian arena, said several sources with knowledge of the situation. Terms of the deal are unclear, but sources said that it is likely to involve some sort of co-branded joint venture effort between the two–a key strategic move for Groupon, given the hard-to-penetrate-if-you’re-not-Chinese Chinese market.