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Viral Video: My Last Word on CircusCrunch (We Will Now Go Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Tech Scoops)

Kara Swisher in Media on September 19, 2011 at 12:25 am PT

It’s never over until it’s over. But let’s hope it’s over.

Video: BoomTown Talks AOL-HuffPo as Web's Condé Nast on CNN

Kara Swisher in News on February 14, 2011 at 12:15 pm PT

Here is a video of a segment I did on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” yesterday morning–in the wee hours in San Francisco, hence the bags under my eyes–about last week’s $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post by AOL. “Someone has to be the Condé Nast of the Internet,” I noted in answer to a question from host Howard Kurtz, since it has not been that famous magazine company which has become the big publishing dog online.

Daily Beast's Tina Brown Brags About "Interesting Discussions" With Newsweek

Peter Kafka in Media on October 6, 2010 at 7:13 am PT

How are things at the Daily Beast, which turns two today? Awesome, says Tina Brown–so awesome that Barry Diller may end up pawning the thing off to Newsweek and new owner Sidney Harman.

Google Talking to New York Times, Washington Post About…Something

Peter Kafka in Media on May 11, 2009 at 10:48 am PT

Remember last week when Google was forced to explain why it wasn’t single-handedly destroying American newspapers? Turns out the company is in talks with some of the country’s biggest newspapers to…well, save them. But that isn’t the right phrase either. In fact, it’s not clear how to describe the talks. But we do know that Google is chatting with both the Washington Post and the New York Times, because that’s what employees of the Washington Post and the New York Times are reporting today.