Kara Swisher in Social on February 3 at 8:40 am PT
That’s right, folks, the rich do get richer, especially if they pursue their case well past the point of shame.
Kara Swisher in News on January 27 at 3:40 pm PT
Earlier today, Harvard University and New Enterprise Associates announced the Experiment Fund, aimed at making sure that future entrepreneurs can stay on campus and innovate without having to head West.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 16 at 9:42 am PT
The cloud-evangelizing former U.S. CIO takes a job running emerging markets for Salesforce.com.
If you project forward 10 years, each person will share about 1,000 times more things per day than they are now.
— Mark Zuckerberg to reporters on a recent recruiting trip to Harvard
Kara Swisher in News on June 29, 2011 at 3:00 pm PT
In an unusual appointment for the longtime public servant, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will join Silicon Valley venture powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz as a part-time “Special Advisor.”
Summers got to know the firm with an assist from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who was a student of his when he was a professor at Harvard University.
Kara Swisher in Media on May 9, 2011 at 8:27 am PT
Yahoo is on a bit of a hiring spree, picking up longtime Internet exec Robertson Barrett, to run its critical and powerful News and Finance sites.
Barrett has held top positions at Tribune Interactive, Time Inc., ABC News, Primedia’s Channel One Interactive and The Feedroom.
Barrett worked most recently as chief strategy officer of Perfect Market, a Comcast-backed start-up.
Kara Swisher in News on April 11, 2011 at 11:27 am PT
It seems Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the Don Quixote twins of the digital age, have tilted at yet another legal windmill unsuccessfully.
So now, after losing another court challenge to overturn a previous court challenge, they’ll
have to settle for $65 million.
Actually, $100 million, which is how much shares in Facebook have appreciated since the pair and also Divya Narendra settled with the social networking giant.
Kara Swisher in News on February 28, 2011 at 8:02 am PT
Yahoo’s Luke Beatty said he is not worried.
“We welcome the change,” he insisted about Google taking aim last Friday at so-called “content farms,” producers of low-quality content that spam up the Web and the search giant’s results. “And we endorse what Google is doing 100 percent.”
That’s ironic, given among those allegedly hit hardest by the tweaking of its famous algorithm–based on early, and perhaps questionable, surveys–is Yahoo’s Associated Content.
Its founder talked to BoomTown about the impact.
Kara Swisher in News on January 7, 2011 at 6:05 am PT
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is certainly in the midst of a media bonanza.
Now CNBC has just aired a documentary on the huge social networking site, titled–appropriately–”The Facebook Obsession.”
At least by the press.
