Kara Swisher in Media on July 7, 2011 at 9:24 am PT
I love the smell of blog wars in the morning!
Acting as Facebook often does to Google, a new site started by former Engadget editor Josh Topolsky just hired away yet another passel of tech journalists from the giant gadgets news and reviews organization.
It is Topolsky’s second major talent raid since he left his editor-in-chief job there in March, for a new gadget property aimed at unseating Engadget.
Kara Swisher in News on January 21, 2011 at 5:22 pm PT
It’s a big, wide and very digital world out there and that’s why I’m headed around the globe–quite literally–for the next week to see some non-Silicon Valley tech trends and more.
Kara Swisher in News on January 14, 2011 at 3:13 am PT
Two of Index Ventures’ high-profile partners–Danny Rimer and Mike Volpi–are opening a new Silicon Valley office for the Europe-based venture firm in September.
The move is actually more of a return home for both men, now located in London, who had lived and worked at tech epicenter for much of their careers.
John Paczkowski in News on November 11, 2010 at 3:00 am PT
Cisco’s shares took a beating yesterday and they’ll likely take another one today, now that investors have had time to ruminate on the company’s latest earnings, its guidance for the next quarter and CEO John Chambers’s forthright comments about it.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 3, 2010 at 2:53 pm PT
That big Myspace relaunch we read about last week? That’s all fine and good.
But the troubled Web property is a…really troubled Web property, its News Corp. parent stressed today. And it needs to get its act together before it gets kicked off campus.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 3, 2010 at 6:46 am PT
The AOL CEO says he can go head-to-head with Google and Facebook, one day. But he says his company won’t be moving at the same speed as the rest of the Web ad business until the second half of 2011. Will Wall Street wait?
John Paczkowski in News on May 14, 2010 at 2:23 pm PT
Responding to questions about its Street View data collection practices in an April 27 blog post, Google said that it captured only publicly broadcast Wi-Fi network names and their MAC addresses and nothing else–certainly not “payload data,” the personal information being sent over those networks. Well, guess what Google has unwittingly been collecting these past three years?
Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on May 7, 2010 at 4:05 am PT
Never heard of Demotix? Don’t feel too bad, its founder says it’s a common problem. The London-based journalism start-up now operates in over 190 countries and territories and describes itself as a “street journalism” wire service. Our talk with founder and COO Jonathan Tepper gets into detail about how to do journalism and (hopefully) turn a profit.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 1, 2010 at 2:06 am PT
Facebook is beefing up its European sales team with a big name in social networking circles: It is adding former Bebo CEO Joanna Shields, who will runs sales and business development in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 20, 2010 at 9:39 am PT
Though the debut of Apple’s mythical tablet at the company’s invitation-only special event next week and the rapture with which it will inevitably be met obviate the need for a closing “one more thing” announcement, Apple may deliver one anyway. Three, actually. IPhone OS 4.0. And the iPhone 4G–on Verizon.
