Kara Swisher in News on January 27 at 3:40 pm PT
Earlier today, Harvard University and New Enterprise Associates announced the Experiment Fund, aimed at making sure that future entrepreneurs can stay on campus and innovate without having to head West.
Kara Swisher in D9 on May 25, 2011 at 9:27 am PT
In the nine years that we’ve been putting on the
D: All Things Digital conference, we’ve never streamed our always sold-out flagship show live.
Until this year, that is, when we will be live streaming three full sessions from California.
Kara Swisher in News on May 24, 2011 at 10:05 am PT
It’s time for Yahoo’s annual meeting with its investors tomorrow. On the menu: Not-so-tasty Chinese issues, with a side of stock decline.
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 March 15, 2011 at 1:43 am PT
Conan O’Brien has been all over the South by Southwest festival this week, hawking a new documentary about his time wandering in the late-night talk television wilderness after he left “The Tonight Show” last year, titled “Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop.”
His hysterical journey, of course, was deftly played out by O’Brien all over the Internet, which was definitely on “Team Coco.”
Kara Swisher in News on February 28, 2011 at 6:56 pm PT
Yes, it’s actually called Mogwee, which was the codename for the new mobile social communications service being launched tonight by Ning, the high-profile social networking platform.
Part Twitter, part SMS, part Path and any number of such social start-ups, Mogwee actually stands for “more great weekends.”
Here is a video with Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal and Chairman Marc Andreessen talking Mogwee.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 14, 2011 at 4:27 am PT
The Grammys generated a flurry of online interest last night, but the music industry’s biggest event of the year is AWOL this morning. Opportunity wasted.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 12, 2011 at 3:13 pm PT
Is that the future of TV? Twitter’s ad guys would like to think so.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 2, 2011 at 7:40 am PT
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, along with Apple’s Eddy Cue, rented out the Guggenheim Museum to show off their newest creation: A newspaper built for the iPad.
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Peter Kafka in Media on January 20, 2011 at 10:35 am PT
Lots of people listen to
Adam Carolla for free over the Internet. And in a couple weeks, they can start paying to see him: The podcasting star will start selling access to a live video stream of his show via
Ustream. He’ll charge $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year. Carolla, who used to make a lot of money as a TV and radio personality, is
still trying to figure out how to turn Internet popularity into real dollars; this revenue stream will complement ones he’s got coming in from podcast sponsorships, live shows and a best-selling book.
