Kara Swisher in News on October 4, 2011 at 2:28 pm PT
From “very, very interested” to a case of wanna-be-buyer’s remorse?
Kara Swisher in News on August 10, 2011 at 6:50 am PT
The Defense Department’s secret project agency is launching an aircraft today that does 13,000 miles per hour, or 20 times the speed of sound.
Sweeeet.
Kara Swisher in News on July 31, 2011 at 12:48 pm PT
You would think the settlement of a major dispute would goose the stock of a company, but Yahoo’s deal with its Chinese partner Alibaba Group on Friday did exactly the opposite.
Kara Swisher in News on March 31, 2011 at 1:25 am PT
Microsoft’s legal eagle Brad Smith didn’t even bother to pretend the software giant’s filing of a formal antitrust complaint against Google with the European Commission wasn’t a wee bit ironic.
Wrote Smith in a blog post late last night: “There of course will be some who will point out the irony in today’s filing.”
You think?
Kara Swisher in News on March 8, 2011 at 6:30 am PT
Yesterday, the Obama administration dribbled out the news that it was going to nominate current Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as the next ambassador to China.
The move leaves open a post that could get a true turbocharge if it were filled by an exec from the fast-growing and innovative digital arena.
Here are BoomTown’s nominations.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 17, 2011 at 2:30 pm PT
It took two years and $350 million, but America now has a detailed map showing where all its broadband Internet connections are and where they are not.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 24, 2011 at 1:20 pm PT
A shareholder lawsuit seeking to get Hurd’s severance money back is on hold until the latest probe is complete.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 19, 2011 at 5:10 pm PT
A new set of independent lawyers may be tapped to revisit the circumstances of how Mark Hurd came to resign as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, court filings show.
Kara Swisher in D at CES on January 8, 2011 at 12:25 am PT
Earlier tonight, it was revealed in numerous news reports that Twitter had been ordered by a U.S. federal judge to turn over documents related to several people involved with WikiLeaks.
Here’s what Twitter had to say to BoomTown in response, as well as what CEO Dick Costolo said onstage yesterday at the
D@CES event about the importance of the free flow of information.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 5, 2011 at 10:08 am PT
Google Apps was prevented from bidding on a big contract with the U.S. Department of Interior, a federal judge has ruled.
