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Google Can Still Find Time for Self-Driving Cars, and It Doesn’t Expect You to Understand Why

Peter Kafka in Media on April 12 at 3:30 pm PT

Larry Page says the company will still keep putting money — and time — into weird stuff. He doesn’t expect you to get it, because you don’t work at Google.

Viral Video: Here’s the Trailer for the $60 Movie (For Free!)

Kara Swisher in Media on October 11, 2011 at 12:27 am PT

It does look funny, but does it look $60 funny?

The AppleTwitter-Equals-iBrangelina Experiment*

Kara Swisher in News on May 6, 2009 at 4:05 am PT

Yesterday, in a BoomTown post about the latest unproven rumors that the world’s most iconic computer company, Apple, was in “late-stage” negotiations to buy Silicon Valley’s latest pretty young thing, microblogging service Twitter, I wrote: “Oh, the very notion of Apple and Twitter is a Techmeme dream-ticket, sure to be chewed over for days on end. (I once considered doing a post that just said “AppleTwitterAppleTwitterAppleTwitter…” for 1,000 words to see how much idiotic traffic I would get.)” Well, I reconsidered.