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BoomTown Decodes the Zuckerberg Terms of Service My-Bad Memo (Now With 10 Percent More "So Very Sorrys!")

Kara Swisher in News on February 18, 2009 at 2:21 am PT

Under cover of darkness last night, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on the social-networking site’s blog that it would “return to our previous terms of use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.” Oh, this is just too good to resist. Therefore, BoomTown shall not tarry in our ongoing job of busting the chops of the young Facebook leader, whose minions have actually–and I am not joking here–given him the nickname: The Wizard. Well, the Wizard obviously had to pull back the curtain last night and show some serious mea culpa to the people, before they got out the pitchforks. Here’s a translation of Zuckerberg’s message.

BoomTown Decodes Carl Icahn's Latest Letter to Yahoo (The Crazy Eddie Edition)

Kara Swisher in News on June 4, 2008 at 4:19 pm PT

Break out the sedatives, because Carl Icahn is getting mighty tetchy with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and the board of directors of the troubled Internet company! In yet another letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock, the ever-grumpier billionaire investor, who is waging a proxy fight against Yahoo and seeking to oust Yang and crew, he stepped up the volume to Crazy Eddie levels. It’s almost too juicy to require translation, as the veins practically pop out in Icahn’s letter from all the agita he seems to be experiencing over this botched takeover.