Kara Swisher in Media on December 7, 2011 at 9:43 am PT
Still no sale or investment deal. No new CEO. No Asia resolution. And, perhaps most importantly, no clearly articulated strategy going forward.
Other than that …
Kara Swisher in Media on November 8, 2011 at 12:42 pm PT
What will David Kenny do?
Maybe get something cooking in the whole what-will-Yahoo-do stakes, now that one of Yahoo’s more active board members is back.
Kara Swisher in News on August 19, 2011 at 9:08 am PT
Key webOS execs Todd Bradley and Jon Rubinstein were left out of the loop on HP’s dramatic departure from the consumer space this week. So, will they stay or will they go now?
Kara Swisher in Media on July 19, 2011 at 12:02 am PT
Last time, the legendary VC dumped his directorship in indignation over HP’s spying of reporters’ phone records. This time, the News Corp. board member has a different view.
Kara Swisher in News on April 3, 2011 at 7:34 pm PT
Jim Bankoff, the fomer AOL exec responsible for buying Engadget for the Internet portal, has grabbed eight staffers who had recently left the huge tech site amid tensions, in order to start a new gadget property for his SB Nation sports and news platform.
The site–which is still unnamed and will be run by outgoing Engadget Editor-in-Chief Josh Topolsky–will debut sometime in the fall.
Meanwhile, AOL has zeroed in on a new leader to replace Topolsky.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 17, 2011 at 2:11 pm PT
Nordstrom has agreed to acquire four-year-old HauteLook, marking the department store’s first foray into online private sales.
Kara Swisher in News on February 9, 2011 at 11:13 am PT
Andreessen Horowitz has invested more than $80 million in Twitter via purchasing stock in secondary markets.
When called about it by BoomTown, a spokeswoman at the high-profile Silicon Valley venture firm confirmed the purchase.
The move is an interesting one, since Andreessen Horowitz was not part of the recent $200 million round on venture funding at the San Francisco microblogging company, led by Kleiner Perkins and which valued it at $3.75 billion.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 19, 2011 at 5:10 pm PT
A new set of independent lawyers may be tapped to revisit the circumstances of how Mark Hurd came to resign as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, court filings show.
Kara Swisher in News on January 16, 2011 at 4:15 pm PT
SnagFilms, the online video distribution site for professional documentaries, has nabbed $10 million in funding from Comcast’s investment arm and New Enterprise Associates, and will also now be distributing fictional independent releases.
That and the new investment giving SnagFilms a valuation of $50 million should be big news at the 11th Sundance Film Festival, the famous independent film gathering opening in Park City, Utah, on Thursday.
Kara Swisher in News on December 16, 2010 at 5:14 am PT
Star venture capitalist John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins paid $150 million for a stake in Twitter and all he
didn’t get was a board seat.
That’s due to another directorship he has at search giant Google.
Maybe Doerr will get one at Spotify or Groupon, where he could be investing next.
