Kara Swisher in Media on November 2, 2011 at 10:41 am PT
I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., to check out “Product Runway,” which is the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s attempt to show that it can still innovate.
Kara Swisher in Media on September 15, 2011 at 2:17 am PT
Hedge fund tough guy Daniel Loeb unloads on Yahoo, after it hung up on him. With more than five percent of the company — big mistake.
Biiiiiig mistake.
John Paczkowski in News on February 10, 2011 at 3:30 am PT
Hewlett-Packard bought Palm for its technology and talent, not for its brand. So it’s hardly surprising that the Palm logo and name were nowhere to be found at HP’s big webOS event Wednesday. Not in the signage. Not in the videos or slides included in the onstage presentation and not on any of the new hardware on display. The TouchPad, Veer and Pre3 all sport silver HP logos and “HP” as a prefix, not Palm.
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Ina Fried in Mobile on January 26, 2011 at 11:25 am PT
Rumors of the Facebook Phone are once again back in the news, this time with a
report that the social network will announce a deal with HTC at next month’s Mobile World Congress that will have the Taiwanese mobile device maker building Android phones with the Facebook name and color.
Previous rumors
had the company building a phone with INQ Mobile. One of the challenges is that in addition to any true Facebook-designed phones, there are also a whole lot of phones with deep Facebook integration–including plenty of Android devices and the entire Windows Phone 7 product line. So it’s not clear where exactly the line is between a phone with good Facebook connections and a true “Facebook Phone.” However, I’d say if it is blue and bears the Facebook logo, that would count in my book. For its part, HTC declined comment.
Kara Swisher in D at CES on January 7, 2011 at 10:00 am PT
First things first, for those emailing me frantically about getting into our
D@CES onstage interview event later today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: We’re sold out and have a very long wait list.
That said, people in Sin City tend to flake out, so if you show up at the Marcello Ballroom at the Venetian at 3 pm, you might snag a seat to see us grill some tech execs well done with a side of news.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 4, 2011 at 3:53 pm PT
Shares of the cellphone-making unit rose in their first day of trading, while the remaining company, Motorola Solutions, held its own. The issuing of separate stock marks the end of a long process to divide the communications giant in half.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 20, 2010 at 1:42 pm PT
Looking to increase the buzz around its forthcoming tablet, Motorola has launched a teaser video on YouTube. While revealing very little about Motorola’s own product, the video tries to sting the competition with barbs aimed at the iPad and Galaxy Tab. A hovering bee suggests that, as expected, the tablet will run the Honeycomb version of Android.
Kara Swisher in D at CES on December 15, 2010 at 5:10 am PT
Here comes our second
D event at the Consumer Electronics Show, which is slated for January 6 to 9, 2011.
D@CES will, natch, be focused on the consumer electronics arena, and the big trends impacting it.
On the hot seat: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and Dean Hachamovitch, who heads the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft.
Kara Swisher in News on November 1, 2010 at 6:15 am PT
AOL reports its third-quarter earnings on Wednesday, and investors are not expecting much
But that has not stopped CEO Tim Armstrong from using his well-practiced jazz hands over and over to try to create a credible narrative about the long-troubled company.
This week: A new homepage! Here’s Armstrong doing a song and dance about it.
Kara Swisher in News on October 29, 2010 at 12:44 pm PT
Today, BoomTown interviewed AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, along with NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, at the Online News Association Conference in Washington, D.C., about the future of journalism on the Web.
Afterward, I talked to him about the future of content on AOL, most particularly its new homepage revamp that focuses intently on editorial “curation,” rather than the more social direction being taken by rival Yahoo.
After the jump is a screenshot of the new homepage, which is rolling out right now.
