Kara Swisher in News on April 14, 2011 at 8:46 am PT
On some level of journalism, I guess anything
could happen.
But does that mean it should?
Some sensational stories in tech of late have led to some even more sensational reporting.
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.
Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 18, 2011 at 10:52 am PT
Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini is not one of the liberal tech leaders who helped President Barack Obama get elected. But he is nevertheless heeding the administration’s call.
John Paczkowski in News on February 18, 2011 at 9:05 am PT
The White House has posted a single photo from the Silicon Valley dinner President Obama attended last night. Beyond confirming the guest list that made the rounds Thursday, it’s largely unremarkable–save for one thing: the seating arrangement at the dining table.
John Paczkowski in News on February 17, 2011 at 1:07 pm PT
Oh to be a fly on the wall at this gathering….President Obama will dine with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and a handful of other top Silicon Valley executives at a private dinner, at the home of venture capitalist John Doerr.
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.
Kara Swisher in News on December 15, 2010 at 12:15 pm PT
Twitter has completed its latest round of funding–$200 million at a $3.7 billion valuation–with Kleiner Perkins as the lead investor.
The San Francisco microblogging service is also adding two new board members: Flipboard’s Mike McCue and former DoubleClick head David Rosenblatt.
Kara Swisher in News on December 6, 2010 at 11:24 am PT
According to sources close to the situation, the aggressive Russian investment outfit DST Global is out of the running to fund Twitter.
Instead, the prize is almost certainly going to Kleiner Perkins, the legendary Silicon Valley venture firm of Web 1.0 that has been making a big push of late into the Web 2.0 market.
The valuation for the new round–which sources said is well above $150 million–will be from $3.5 billion to $4 billion. There also might be smaller investors in the new round, which could be completed next week.
Kara Swisher in News on November 29, 2010 at 12:46 pm PT
Wall Street’s star Internet analyst Mary Meeker considered leaving Morgan Stanley in New York for Silicon Valley’s Kleiner Perkins 11 years ago.
Today, she finally joined the legendary venture firm today as a partner in the digital arena.
It’s a much-needed hire, given Meeker’s deep well of experience and the critical need for the still-lagging-behind-hotter-VCs Kleiner to wade more definitively into more current tech trends that she knows well.
Pui-Wing Tam, Reporter, Wall Street Journal in News on November 29, 2010 at 7:26 am PT
Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley’s head of global technology research and the analyst once dubbed “Queen of the Net” in the 1990s dot-com boom era, is heading to the roots of where that Internet boom began.
