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Woof! Rover.com Fetches $3.4 Million to Be Airbnb for Dogs.

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 9 at 6:00 am PT

But at a very un-Airbnb-like valuation.

“Unleashed”: Zynga Unveils 10 New Products, Including Project Z Platform

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on October 11, 2011 at 9:57 am PT

Zynga is introducing a raft of new products and games today, with an emphasis on expanding its platform and winning new users.

From Cradle to, Well, You Know: The Creepy Factor of Facebook’s Timeline

Kara Swisher in Social on September 23, 2011 at 12:46 pm PT

Even though the social networking site wants to host “The Story of Your Life,” maybe who we were is not, in the end, who we really are.

Viral Video: The Guiltiest Dog Ever

Kara Swisher in News on March 24, 2011 at 1:02 am PT

A chewed-up bag of kitty treats. Two canine suspects–one poker-faced and one, well, not so much. It does not take Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective to figure this caper–and the video that has garnered more than 3.7 million views–out.

Liveblogging the Facebook Mobile Event: Single Sign-On for Social

Kara Swisher in News on November 3, 2010 at 10:55 am PT

BoomTown arrived late to the Facebook mobile event for the press due to traffic related to the parade for the San Francisco Giants’ World Series victory–and where I would much rather be right now. Go Giants! In any case, I am here in the cafeteria of Facebook again, where the company continues its attempts to take over the known digital universe before Google does. The latest parry: Single sign-on!

ATD Adds Tricia Duryee (Who Will Add It All Up for Our Readers)

Kara Swisher in Commerce on October 25, 2010 at 5:42 am PT

And the hit reporters/bloggers keep on coming at All Things Digital. Today, we are honored to add Tricia Duryee to the staff of our site, where she will be covering commerce, online payments, gaming and more. In other words: She’ll show us the money. Or not, in some cases.

ATD Adds Tricia Duryee (Who Will Add It All Up for Our Readers)

Kara Swisher in News on October 25, 2010 at 5:42 am PT

And the hit reporters/bloggers keep on coming at All Things Digital. Today, we are honored to add Tricia Duryee to the staff of our site, where she will be covering commerce, online payments, gaming and more. In other words: She’ll show us the money. Or not, in some cases.

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Almost Famous: Keith Lee of Booyah Games

Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on February 8, 2010 at 1:07 am PT

This week, we took a short walk down University Avenue in Silicon Valley with Keith Lee, co-founder and CEO of Booyah Games. We talked about his time as lead developer for Blizzard, his total lack of common sense, and how he’s trying to make the whole social game world “level up.” Don’t worry–we made him translate most of the gamer lingo.

Kara Visits Slide's New HQ in San Francisco!

Kara Swisher in News on July 20, 2009 at 10:22 am PT

Along with a long interview I did with Slide founder and CEO Max Levchin, BoomTown also got a tour of the Web 2.0 start-up’s new San Francisco HQ from him. Here’s the video of the visit…

A Sneak Peek Look at Microsoft's New Kumo: A Spidery Cloud? A Cloudy Spider?

Kara Swisher in News on March 2, 2009 at 5:07 pm PT

Here are three screenshots of Microsoft’s internal test of a new search product called Kumo. The long expected upgrade to Live Search from Microsoft is being tested for a public rollout later this year. Sources at Microsoft said the company has not yet decided whether it will keep the Kumo name, which sounds a little too much like that crazy dog from the Stephen King novel. Maybe that’s the point, at least related to Google. (Chomp!) In Japanese, actually, Kumo has two definitions–cloud and spider.