Kara Swisher in News on September 27, 2011 at 7:16 am PT
New CEO Meg Whitman appoints acting communications head as part of new “one-voice” rule.
Kara Swisher in Enterprise on September 21, 2011 at 8:05 am PT
Would the former Internet exec star be open to running one of Silicon Valley’s most notoriously difficult companies?
Sources say yes, indeedy.
Kara Swisher in Media on May 18, 2011 at 12:31 am PT
Former California Governor and Hollywood action star Arnold Schwarzenegger got the CGI treatment from Next Media Animation, which should come as a surprise to exactly no one.
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.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 22, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
Among the early adopter types I know in the tech industry, there’s a sense that casual gaming on Facebook serves an entirely different demographic from their own. The thinking is that games from Zynga and the like replace relatively mindless activities like soap opera watching.
But as someone who has just reorganized her virtual retail shops to be surrounded by virtual trees so as to accumulate more virtual bonus points, I see how social gaming–especially as it gets more social–might appeal to the desire for mindless diversions in all of us.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 20, 2010 at 10:36 am PT
JibJab went for a bit of a narrower focus on American politics in its annual original music video recap of the year, constructing a regretful duet between U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
Voices
Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on October 27, 2010 at 12:19 pm PT
Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman may be destined to lose her campaign to be the next governor of California–recent polls show she’s running considerably behind long-time California politician Jerry Brown–but she sure can’t blame a lack of support from Valley big wigs and corporate America in general.
Kara Swisher in News on October 27, 2010 at 12:15 am PT
Here’s an inventive political-campaign advertisement video from the Illinois governor’s race, using the infectious scenes-from-last-week style of the hit television show “Glee.”
While I wish there were some overwrought versions of show tunes or intense channeling of Madonna, it works well.
