Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 19 at 11:30 pm PT
Amazon’s online catalog offers millions of everyday items for sale, but how many consumers think of visiting Amazon to buy a meal in a restaurant or a haircut at the local salon?
Arik Hesseldahl in News on September 30, 2011 at 4:52 pm PT
He still says he never shopped his company to Oracle, and Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch keeps changing his story. Wait till you read the email from his banker to Oracle President Mark Hurd.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on June 9, 2011 at 2:41 pm PT
The Utah-based maker of chip-based storage technology for servers has better luck on its first day of trading than the Chinese children’s media company that also IPO’d today. Time will tell if Fusion-io can deliver on the results investors clearly expect.
John Paczkowski in News on February 11, 2011 at 10:35 am PT
Looks like Nokia’s search for a new North American chief to succeed President Mark Louison has turned up a willing replacement: Former Microsoft executive Chris Weber.
Kara Swisher in News on February 9, 2011 at 11:13 am PT
Andreessen Horowitz has invested more than $80 million in Twitter via purchasing stock in secondary markets.
When called about it by BoomTown, a spokeswoman at the high-profile Silicon Valley venture firm confirmed the purchase.
The move is an interesting one, since Andreessen Horowitz was not part of the recent $200 million round on venture funding at the San Francisco microblogging company, led by Kleiner Perkins and which valued it at $3.75 billion.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 9, 2011 at 7:35 am PT
Cisco Systems hit unexpected “air pockets” last quarter, but today we’ll see how well the networking giant is navigating the turbulence.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 8, 2011 at 12:06 pm PT
BroadVision announces another social enterprise product, and like all the others in the marketplace, it takes a swipe at Salesforce.com’s Chatter.
Kara Swisher in News on January 31, 2011 at 6:15 am PT
Oh, to be misquoted!
Last week, a lot of folks on Twitter and elsewhere thought I had called Groupon co-founder and CEO Andrew Mason a “corporate douche bag” onstage in an interview gone badly awry.
While such a comment is not beyond me, the fact of the matter is that he called himself that.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 21, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT
Facebook finally issued a rare press release today to say it has raised a total of $1.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation from Goldman Sachs and its clients.
John Paczkowski in News on January 17, 2011 at 7:10 am PT
The knee-jerk reaction to news of Steve Jobs’s medical leave of absence from Apple was as expected, though somewhat muted by the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the States. U.S. markets are closed today, so Apple’s share price here remains at $348.48, its Friday close. But it’s already taking a beating abroad. As I write this, Apple’s stock is down nearly 8 percent in Frankfurt trading.
