Kara Swisher in News on October 25, 2011 at 6:07 am PT
How do you hug a porcupine?
Very carefully.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 26, 2011 at 7:45 am PT
Now that Eric Schmidt isn’t running Google anymore, he has time for this kind of stuff: An hour-long interview with Tina Fey, conducted last week at the Googleplex.
Kara Swisher in News on April 21, 2011 at 6:15 am PT
Earlier this week, BoomTown interviewed longtime author and tech journalist Steven Levy about his new book, “In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives.”
I met Levy at the Plex in question–the Googleplex–to chitchat about what he learned after being embedded at the Borg,
um, search giant for years.
Kara Swisher in News on March 23, 2011 at 12:21 am PT
Google hosted singing sensation Lady Gaga today at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA.
What more can BoomTown say, except that it is interesting to see the sublime meet the ridonkulous.
Kara Swisher in News on February 15, 2011 at 7:01 am PT
Although there have already been several big-deal books on Google already–including Ken Auletta’s “Googled,” which was bought by Hollywood for a movie–a new pair is about to debut in coming months.
One is penned by prominent Silicon Valley journalist Steven Levy, who had a lot of access to the Google and its denizens, and the other is what appears to be an insiderish tell-all by a former employee.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 4, 2011 at 10:44 am PT
You’d think that nearly two years after Tim Armstrong jumped from Google to AOL, he’d be done bringing former coworkers to his new gig. But you’d be wrong!
Kara Swisher in News on February 3, 2011 at 11:00 am PT
While he won’t officially take over as CEO of Google until April, the recent full-frontal slapfest on Microsoft’s Bing search engine for shoplifting results from the search giant was so Larry Page in tone and temperament that it brought back memories from many years ago when I covered Google more closely.
I would wager that we’re about to see a lot more of this pugnacious, in-your-face tone from Google under Page’s leadership, which could have far-reaching implications for the company.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 2, 2011 at 9:59 am PT
Today’s event in Mountain View provided new details on the tablet-friendly version of Android and a new way to acquire apps. Mobilized was there liveblogging.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on January 25, 2011 at 12:52 pm PT
Google plans its “biggest hiring year in company history” in 2011, the company
announced today. That means something north of 6,000 new hires, which was the company’s previous record, set in 2007. And that will push Google’s total head count above 30,000 by the end of the year. Last year Google added more than 4,500 bodies. Bear in mind that many of those came via acquisitions, like the AdMob deal.
Kara Swisher in News on January 14, 2011 at 4:00 pm PT
Shan Sinha headed the start-up DocVerse, which was acquired by Google in March for a reported $25 million to $30 million.
Since then, he’s has been ferreting away on scaling up DocVerse’s product, which allows users of Microsoft Office documents to collaborate in real time on the Web, for the search giant.
Its new name: Google Cloud Connect.
