Hawaii

Twitter CEO Costolo in 140 Characters or Less: Dude’s About to Wipe Out

Liz Gannes in News on December 30, 2011 at 10:12 am PT

Let’s go surfin’ now, everybody’s learnin’ how.

Yahoo’s Product Runway: Are You In or Out?

Kara Swisher in Media on November 2, 2011 at 10:41 am PT

I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., to check out “Product Runway,” which is the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s attempt to show that it can still innovate.

Beach Session: Google+ Team Circles Up in Maui

Liz Gannes in Social on September 30, 2011 at 12:13 pm PT

Facebook has debuted a substantial revamp, so the Google+ team is no doubt hard at work in response. However, sources told us the team has decamped to relax and discuss strategy in Hawaii.

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Amazon Takes Action in Illinois as War on Sales Taxes Continues

Stu Woo, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 11, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Amazon.com Inc.’s battle with state governments over sales taxes is escalating. The online retailer on Thursday took action in Illinois, as it had threatened to do, to counter a new law aimed at forcing online retailers to collect sales taxes in the state. Hawaii, North Carolina and Rhode Island have enacted similar laws, and California is weighing action.

Like BoomTown Said: Cisco Announces "Umi" Consumer Telepresence

Kara Swisher in News on October 6, 2010 at 9:37 am PT

In a post last week, BoomTown wrote that Cisco would introduce a consumer telepresence product. It did today at San Francisco at a press event. It is called, inexplicably, ?mi telepresence. I’ll be honest, it sounds like sushi I refuse to eat. In any case, Cisco’s entry into the crowded consumer video-chat arena will be $599 with $24.99 monthly fee and can be used with a high-definition television.

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Video Game Tort: You Made Me Play You

Eric Felten, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 3, 2010 at 12:05 am PT

A federal judge in Hawaii ruled last month that a man claiming to be addicted to a videogame can sue the game’s maker for gross negligence in not warning him he could become a joystick junkie.

Revolution CEO Steve Case at D8: AOL Could Come Back–Look What Happened to Apple

Peter Kafka in D8 on June 2, 2010 at 1:56 pm PT

Steve Case is most famous for building America Online, which became the Internet’s first mega-company, and for merging it with Time Warner, which became the worst corporate marriage in recent history. But AOL is 25 years old, and the AOL-Time Warner deal is a decade old. What has Steve Case been doing since then? Investing, in a lot of different stuff. Time to talk about old deals and new ones.

Aloha, iPad!

Peter Kafka in Media on May 12, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Sure, the iPad is big in Boston, San Francisco and New York. But who knew it’d be a hit in Honolulu?

Lala’s Fire Sale That Wasn’t: What Apple Really Paid

Peter Kafka in Media on December 7, 2009 at 10:49 am PT

On Friday, I reported that Apple was buying Lala at a fire-sale price, which meant that investors in the music service wouldn’t get their money. I was wrong. Apple ended up paying around $80 million for the company, according to multiple sources. That’s less than half what investors valued the company at in 2008, but it’s more than the $35 million the company raised throughout its life. Which means that some investors could get their money back and more.

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Nigahiga Topples Fred on YouTube

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 24, 2009 at 1:58 pm PT

A 19-year-old from Hilo, Hawaii, recently overtook squeaky-voiced Fred Figglehorn as the YouTube channel with the most subscribers. Ryan Higa, whose Nigahiga channel had more than 1.4 million subscribers Monday afternoon, thanked his fans in a new video in which he gave his own version of an acceptance speech.