I think going public today is almost like a Bataan death march. I think Wall Street — this will insult many people — but I think in many ways it bears a resemblance to organized crime. It is legal today what they do, but what they do is manifestly unfair.
– Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners, in conversation with Bloomberg Television’s Margaret Brennan
Kara Swisher in Social on November 20, 2011 at 9:51 am PT
Here’s a panel I did last week at the Privacy Identity Innovation conference that took place on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley, called “Social Sharing and the Data-Driven Economy.”
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on September 29, 2011 at 6:21 am PT
Networked Insights has now raised $30 million, and says it helps steer $5 billion worth of media buying.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on September 6, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
Leaked internal memos elucidate Hewlett-Packard’s plans for the future — such as it is — for the different pieces of its webOS business.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 5, 2011 at 8:49 am PT
Electronic Arts has reorganized its management team to take into account its acquisition of PopCap, once it’s complete, and the departure of COO John Schappert, who left in April to fill the same role at Zynga.
Voices
Daniel Hausmann, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 26, 2010 at 3:14 pm PT
Private equity firm Elevation Partners is continuing to invest in big-name venture-backed Internet businesses, this time putting a deal together for online radio service Pandora Media.
The technology and media investor – which counts U2 front man Bono as a managing director – signed a letter of intent to buy a stake in a secondary sale from existing shareholders, a person familiar with the deal confirmed. TechCrunch reported the deal earlier.
Kara Swisher in News on August 22, 2010 at 2:52 pm PT
You’d think someone–like BoomTown!–would have noticed the big I’m-going-to-Facebook post former Palm exec Katie Mitic put on her Wall on the social networking site more than three weeks ago.
But–there it was on July 27 from the well-liked Silicon Valley Internet exec: “Jazzed to be joining the very talented and fun team at Facebook in August.”
Facebook confirmed the move, noting she’ll be a top exec in platform marketing.
John Paczkowski in News on June 10, 2010 at 7:16 am PT
Palm has cleared from its decks at least one of the lawsuits filed by shareholders over its pending merger with Hewlett-Packard. In filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday, the company said it reached a settlement with investor Steve Ubaney, who sued it in early May alleging breach of fiduciary duty.
Katherine Boehret in D8 on June 1, 2010 at 4:31 pm PT
All Things Digital’s Katherine Boehret walked the lobby at Terranea during registration for
D8 and got a few tech types to talk about what they hope Steve Jobs will discuss during tonight’s interview.
