Kara Swisher in Media on November 21, 2011 at 1:00 am PT
Those cheeseheads can be cruel.
Kara Swisher in Media on November 2, 2011 at 10:41 am PT
I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., to check out “Product Runway,” which is the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s attempt to show that it can still innovate.
Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on January 3, 2011 at 9:05 am PT
Want to get huge on YouTube? Does interacting with thousands of 13-year-old Web kids sound like your idea of fun? Do you count your “views” in the millions? If the answer is yes, then AppRats has an app for that.
Kara Swisher in News on December 17, 2010 at 11:02 am PT
Here’s a really fun video of Ustream’s top 10 live moments of 2010.
The most-watched stream was, no surprise, the rescue of the Chilean miners, but Justin Bieber and Kayne West also scored.
Kara Swisher in News on December 16, 2010 at 12:30 am PT
There are certainly a lot of movie trailers on the Web, but this one made its first appearance on the Facebook fan page of its meaty star.
That would be action star Vin Diesel, who is the star of the “Fast and Furious” car thief series and has–no,
really, including BoomTown–20 million fans on the social networking site.
Kara Swisher in News on November 10, 2010 at 12:40 am PT
MSNBC cable television host Keith Olbermann was back on the air last night after a short suspension and chatting up a storm–as usual, almost entirely about himself.
This time it was supposedly to apologize for handing over some dough in support of a trio of Democratic candidates, which is against NBC ethical guidelines for its news folk.
It turned into more of a pat on the back.
Kara Swisher in News on November 8, 2010 at 12:02 am PT
SB Nation, the Washington, D.C.-based sports blog and news start-up, has just completed a $10.5 million Series C round, which is being led by Khosla Ventures, according to sources.
SB Nation has already raised about $13 million in total venture funding from Accel Partners, Allen & Company, Comcast Interactive Capital, as well as angel investors such as Ted Leonsis and others in Silicon Valley.
Kara Swisher in News on October 26, 2010 at 10:56 pm PT
Empty bracket or no empty bracket: Will it work?
That’s pretty much the big question at News Corp. tonight, as its much beleaguered social networking site, Myspace, rolls out a new beta version aimed at shifting its fortunes.
And how will it do that? By moving dramatically away from its roots as a social networking site–and far, far away from powerhouse Facebook–and becoming a “social entertainment” hub aimed directly at the Gen Y audience.
Kara Swisher in News on September 28, 2010 at 8:48 am PT
MySpace is trading most of the assets of its Fox Audience Network to the Rubicon Project in exchange for a significant equity minority stake, according to sources close to the situation.
Under the terms of the deal, which is nearly complete with a signed term sheet, MySpace will hand over a number of parts of FAN, including most of its 300 employees.
Kara Swisher in News on August 23, 2010 at 4:29 pm PT
Adam Bain, the well-regarded exec who ran the Fox Audience Network, called FAN, is going to Twitter to head up its early but increasingly aggressive advertising revenue efforts.
Here is the internal memo from News Corp. digital head Jon Miller and also one from Bain about the changes.
The media giant had been working on a plan for a year to spin off FAN and sell a piece of it to private equity investors, in part to hold onto Bain, but now it is being integrated into MySpace, its main source of ad inventory.
