Kara Swisher in News on February 9 at 10:14 am PT
It’s like the movie “The Gray,” except it’s not clear yet who gets eaten and who does the eating.
Kara Swisher in News on January 23 at 1:49 pm PT
Maybe Yahoo should take its earnings to Vegas and bet it all on red!
Kara Swisher in News on January 19 at 5:10 am PT
More not-good news from Silicon Valley’s troubled giant.
Kara Swisher in Enterprise on September 21, 2011 at 8:05 am PT
Would the former Internet exec star be open to running one of Silicon Valley’s most notoriously difficult companies?
Sources say yes, indeedy.
Kara Swisher in D9 on July 3, 2011 at 6:02 am PT
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has not had the best of times since he left a top job at Microsoft to take over the reins of the Finnish mobile giant.
What with layoffs, executive shakeups, an earnings scare and stock drops, along with a need to completely rehaul its offerings, he’s had a lot to wrangle with.
Kara Swisher in D9 on July 1, 2011 at 7:21 am PT
Léo Apotheker got to Hewlett-Packard less than a year ago, but what a year. From a board shake-up to executive shuffles to new strategic directions to layoffs and — oh, yes — a new tablet offering, called TouchPad and based on webOS, he’s been a busy man.
Here’s his take, in an onstage interview with Walt Mossberg at the ninth
D: All Things Digital conference.
Kara Swisher in Social on June 29, 2011 at 1:48 pm PT
Apparently, there is no time lag anymore when it comes to telling the stories of epic fail on the Internet.
I got an email this afternoon from an anonymous Myspace employee who wrote about an interesting group writing effort on Google Docs called “Real Myspace Stories.”
Kara Swisher in News on June 28, 2011 at 7:42 am PT
Have you ever heard of Specific Media? What about Golden Gate Capital?
One of them is likely to be the new owner of Myspace by Thursday, as the deal to sell the distressed social networking icon goes down to the wire for a $20 million to $30 million price and massive layoffs.
Kara Swisher in Media on June 15, 2011 at 6:04 am PT
Talking to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong earlier this week about its investors day tomorrow, he used the word “execution” a lot.
No, not the kind evoking a firing squad if he did not succeed at turning around the New York-based Internet giant soon as he has long promised.
He means the good kind.
Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 3:07 pm PT
Yesterday, BoomTown spent a good part of the day at Yahoo’s HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., meeting with various product execs and seeing some cool new stuff in the works.
That included its Chief Product Officer Blake Irving, who got to the company a little less than a year ago with the goal of finally getting the company to actually get those innovations out the door.
