Kara Swisher in Media on February 8 at 6:44 am PT
Worrywart Wall Street is agonizing over facts.
Kara Swisher in News on November 11, 2011 at 2:53 pm PT
Former employees are good for something, apparently!
Drake Martinet in News on November 10, 2011 at 10:57 am PT
Google has acquired contextual search start-up Apture and will integrate the team and features into Chrome.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 27, 2011 at 3:00 am PT
Pixazza is dead. Long live Luminate.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 19, 2011 at 6:36 am PT
News Corp. CEO and majordomo Rupert Murdoch tells British lawmakers he is sorry on the “most humble day of my life”, survives a surprise attack and loses his jacket.
Other than that, the hearing turned into a what
didn’t the Murdochs know and when
didn’t they know it Q&A session.
Kara Swisher in Commerce on July 9, 2011 at 11:33 pm PT
Groupon sent out emails to its users this weekend, about changes it has made to its privacy statement and terms of use.
Among the most notable changes is more information about the Chicago-based social buying start-up’s collection and use of mobile location information.
In other words, if you let them, in order to improve the experience and make the app more useful, you’re being tracked.
Kara Swisher in Mobile on June 14, 2011 at 5:41 pm PT
Let it be said: For a digital information junkie such as myself, traveling abroad without any cellular or consistent Internet connection on my spanking new white iPhone is agonizing.
As in: No social, no local, no mobile.
Kara Swisher in News on April 26, 2011 at 8:19 am PT
We’ve done a lot of onstage interviews at our
D: All Things Digital conferences with the leaders of tech.
That includes Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google smartphone kingpin Andy Rubin, both of whom are now dealing with the fallout over a series of reports that iOS and Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to both companies.
Here are both talking about the now-explosive issue of privacy.
Kara Swisher in News on April 18, 2011 at 5:46 pm PT
According to sources close to the situation, retail giant Wal-mart paid just over $300 million in cash for Kosmix, an acquisition announced earlier today.
That’s a big price for the six-year-old Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which has built a social media platform that organizes content by topic and had raised $55 million from a large group of Silicon Valley venture firms.
Kara Swisher in News on April 14, 2011 at 1:23 pm PT
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard.
Today, its co-founder and CEO Mike McCue confirmed a $50 million round at an eye-popping $200 million valuation, in a wide-ranging interview at the start-up’s Palo Alto, Calif., HQ.
