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 Media on July 25, 2011 at 6:14 am PT
It’s the first board seat ever for Horowitz, who has been a bit busy of late launching the search giant’s first successful social networking product.
Kara Swisher in News on March 23, 2011 at 10:20 am PT
At least once a day, BoomTown gets a call from investors, analysts or other troublemaking types–you know who you are!–wondering why Yahoo is still plugging away in search.
With a declining market share in the arena and a search technology outsourcing deal with Microsoft, it’s not a bad question to ask.
But Yahoo begs to differ, introducing a new feature called Yahoo Search Direct at an event in San Francisco today.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 17, 2011 at 2:30 pm PT
It took two years and $350 million, but America now has a detailed map showing where all its broadband Internet connections are and where they are not.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 1, 2011 at 10:13 am PT
Today Google Latitude will give users the ability to share their location with friends and strangers by “checking in” to a particular establishment.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 15, 2010 at 12:57 pm PT
The Communications Workers of America have completed their latest survey of broadband connections in the U.S., and if the point wasn’t already well-established, then they’re here to remind you: Broadband connections in America are slow, and service availability is lousy or non-existent in many areas.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 6, 2010 at 6:33 pm PT
Taking the stage to kick off
D: Dive into Mobile, Google’s Andy Rubin gave a glimpse of Android 3.0 running on a prototype Motorola tablet. That was the icing on a pastry-laden talk filled with Gingerbread, Froyo and Honeycomb.
Liz Gannes in Social on November 18, 2010 at 7:08 pm PT
I spent the first half of the week at and around the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. This year’s edition felt a bit smaller than before, but it still attracted some of the key characters on and off the Web. If you weren’t there or didn’t tune in to the event’s first-ever full livestream, and want to catch up, here are some of the highlights, which have already been posted to the O’Reilly YouTube account.
Kara Swisher in News on November 16, 2010 at 8:00 am PT
Last week, BoomTown sat down with former Myspace exec Travis Katz to talk about the private beta launch of his new start-up, Gogobot.
No, it’s not a robot from Google–it’s a social travel site, which uses friends to enhance the travel-planning experience.
Essentially, it feels like Facebook for trips, but with really good images.
Liz Gannes in Social on November 14, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT
While there are many interesting photo-sharing apps out these days, Dave Morin and Path are the most convincing about there being a larger idea behind what they’re doing. San Francisco-based Path is stubbornly focused on close personal connections–a.k.a. real friends.
