Peter Kafka in Media on January 8, 2011 at 8:52 am PT
Music start-ups have been a money incinerator for a long time, but that doesn’t stop investors from trying again. Here’s the latest example, which I first wrote about back in October.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 17, 2010 at 5:20 am PT
When one thinks of Silicon Valley tech companies, Nokia is hardly a name that comes to mind. But the company has amassed a decent presence in the Valley, with about 500 people working on everything from research to inking deals with Web giants to building the features that the company hopes will someday soon return it to the forefront of the smartphone market.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 10, 2010 at 12:45 pm PT
You might think twice about publishing a WikiLeaks e-book if you got threatening emails, too. An odd chapter to a weird story.
John Paczkowski in News on November 9, 2010 at 8:02 am PT
Whatever points SAP managed to score in its high-stakes legal battle with Oracle Monday–by introducing an email from Oracle President Safra Catz suggesting the company had not lost any large customers to its German competitor after it bought TomorrowNow–dropped off the board when Catz finally took the stand herself.
Kara Swisher in News on November 8, 2010 at 11:35 am PT
BoomTown usually does not get all weepy over the departure of public relations folks at Internet companies, in that cynical I’ve-seen-’em-come-and-I’ve-seen-’em-go kind of way.
But the leaving of Brandee Barker from Facebook most certainly elicited a small single tear of sadness this morning, when she called into
All Things Digital Global HQ to say she would no longer be tossing me her patented–and very endearing–hand-in-the-face “no comment” for the powerful social networking site.
After four long and tumultuous years, she leaves Facebook Dec. 10.
Kara Swisher in News on November 2, 2010 at 1:00 am PT
BoomTown likes the sassiness of SCVNGR, the location-based service that’s
not Foursquare, to do whatever it takes to stand out in the competitive space.
Today, it is by “leveraging the most comprehensive places database in the world–the Google Places API,” which will essentially take the start-up global.
It’s part of a lot of moves by the Cambridge, Mass.-based SCVNGR, which tries to go beyond simple check-ins by emphasizing the game aspect and posing real-world challenges for users to complete.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 17, 2010 at 6:49 am PT
The Pirate Bay, the world’s most notorious hub for illegal downloads, is down again, apparently due to a German court order. Decent odds it pops up fairly quickly. In the meantime, LimeWire is still up and running despite a devastating legal loss last week.
Kara Swisher in News on April 29, 2010 at 1:12 am PT
Here’s a video that is sure to go rocketing around the Web today: A classic smackdown by Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show” of Apple for its behavior related to the stolen iPhone 4G prototype.
It’s titled: “Appholes.”
That’s gotta hurt.
There’s not much more to be said than Stewart does in a tough attack on the recent door-bashing police raid of a reporter from Gizmodo, which bought the smartphone from the person who allegedly found it in a German beer garden in Silicon Valley.
