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Airbnb Hires Former Yahoo Legal Eagle Belinda Johnson as General Counsel

Kara Swisher in Commerce on December 9, 2011 at 7:44 am PT

Here’s the lawyer who’s going to write that ironclad lease — that promised espresso maker better be there! — for the lovely apartment in Italy we rented.

Exclusive: Groupon Prices at $20 a Share; More Than 10x Oversubscribed, So It Adds 5M More Shares

Kara Swisher in News on November 3, 2011 at 3:51 pm PT

Despite all the controversy and criticism, the daily deals site is not going out into the public markets at a discount.

HuffPost at One Biiiilllliiion Monthly Page Views: More Buying, More Launching, More Hiring

Kara Swisher in Media on October 3, 2011 at 1:15 am PT

It’s definitely better than one million!

Zuckerberg Tops Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment” List Again (And Look Who’s No. 40)

Kara Swisher in Media on August 31, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Vanity Fair magazine put out its high-profile “New Establishment” list of the top 50 people — and guess who made the cut from tech?

Worried About IPO Filing Backlash, Groupon Surveys Consumer and Merchant Reaction

Kara Swisher in Commerce on July 7, 2011 at 3:05 am PT

Groupon’s S-1 filing for an IPO last month certainly got a lot of ink. Unfortunately, much of it was negative, focused on several controversial parts of the document. So the social buying service conducted a poll to find out the impact.

Dancing Queen: After Meeting With Microsoft Last Week, Yahoo Is Next on Hulu’s Sales Card

Kara Swisher in Media on July 5, 2011 at 12:05 pm PT

Here’s a handy helper for those following the fate of the Hulu premium online video service, whose noisy efforts to sell itself have gotten a lot of attention of late: “In preliminary talks” = “hawking itself to one of a half dozen big moneybag tech companies who will visit with Hulu’s bankers and management to see its presentation at Morgan Stanley’s office in Century City in Los Angeles.”

Should the Next Commerce Secretary Be a Tech Exec (or Would It Cause a Schmidtstorm?)

Kara Swisher in News on March 8, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

Yesterday, the Obama administration dribbled out the news that it was going to nominate current Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as the next ambassador to China. The move leaves open a post that could get a true turbocharge if it were filled by an exec from the fast-growing and innovative digital arena. Here are BoomTown’s nominations.

Condé Nast Takes Another Crack at the iPad, With a Single-Serving App

Peter Kafka in Media on January 10, 2011 at 3:31 pm PT

Okay. So iPad magazine apps aren’t going to magically solve the publishing industry’s problems, after all. But that doesn’t mean publishers can’t find ways to take advantage of tablets. Maybe one-off issues, like Condé Nast Traveler’s “Best of Italy,” will work.

Apple, Publishers Still Miles Apart on iTunes Subscriptions

Peter Kafka in Media on December 3, 2010 at 9:38 am PT

Here’s Apple’s most recent offer, which publishers still don’t want. Maybe Google can help….