Liz Gannes

UrbanSitter’s Social Babysitting Service Granted $1.75 Million in Allowance

Tricia Duryee in Social on January 23 at 7:00 am PT

UrbanSitter, which may become a high-tech version of “The Baby-Sitters Club,” now has a bigger allowance with which to operate.

Google Will Pay Mozilla Almost $300M Per Year in Search Deal, Besting Microsoft and Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News on December 22, 2011 at 10:57 am PT

The search giant will pony up close to $1 billion to hipcheck Microsoft’s Bing from the pole position on the Firefox browser.

Former Color Co-Founder Peter Pham Heads to Former Myspace CEO’s L.A. Tech Studio (Video)

Kara Swisher in News on November 21, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

The well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur joins Mike Jones at Science.

Viral Video: Liz Gannes May (or May Not) See Hubski Now!

Kara Swisher in Social on October 3, 2011 at 9:34 am PT

Nice try, Steve Clausnitzer!

From Cradle to, Well, You Know: The Creepy Factor of Facebook’s Timeline

Kara Swisher in Social on September 23, 2011 at 12:46 pm PT

Even though the social networking site wants to host “The Story of Your Life,” maybe who we were is not, in the end, who we really are.

Apple iPad News Reader Zite Sold to CNN for Just Over $20 Million

Kara Swisher in Media on August 30, 2011 at 10:06 am PT

Zite, the magazine-style reading app for the Apple iPad, has been sold to news giant CNN for $20 million to $25 million.

Accounting for the Actions of the Winklevii and Virtual Goods Are Both Difficult to Do (Video)

Tricia Duryee in Social on June 26, 2011 at 7:45 am PT

On Friday’s digits, AllThingsD’s Liz Gannes and I discussed two difficult subjects both having to do with Facebook: Why the Winklevii won’t give up on suing the company and why it’s so difficult to account for virtual goods inside social games.

Headless Lawsuit in Topless Blog!

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.

When Media Giants Attack! Cease-and-Desist Letter to News Reader Zite Claims All Kinds of Copyright Damage

Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 3:24 pm PT

A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app. The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty, Time, Dow Jones and many other media organizations were part of the copyright violations action, which you can read all about after the jump.