marriage

Viral Video: Kim’s Fairy-Tale Divorce, Kardashian-Style

Kara Swisher in Media on November 7, 2011 at 12:15 am PT

The reality show famebots are — let’s all admit it — media and digital geniuses at making their traffic-accident lives into audience gold (-plated).

CrunchFund? Unethical Ventures? Pig Pile Partners? No Matter What You Call It, It’s Business as Usual in Silicon Valley.

Kara Swisher in Media on September 2, 2011 at 6:16 am PT

It’s a giant, filthy mud puddle of conflicts of interest in Silicon Valley, but everybody’s in the cesspool, it seems.

Google+ Exec Is Now Really Plus One

Kara Swisher in Social on July 5, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT

Usually, I don’t fall for this kind of stuff, but a posting tonight on Google+ about a marriage proposal in Paris by one of the key execs involved in its recent launch, Bradley Horowitz, is too adorkable to resist. Better still: It’s not complicated.

Save The Date! Smart Wedding Invitations Use Smartphones

Ina Fried in Mobile on May 28, 2011 at 3:20 pm PT

With wedding Web sites now the norm, some folks are looking for new ways to push the state of the art when it comes to prenuptial technology. One couple is experimenting with using QR codes, special bar codes that can be red by a smartphone, to offer guests more than the standard save-the-date information.

Viral Video: A "Twilight" Spoof With an Actual "Twilight" Star

Kara Swisher in News on November 29, 2009 at 10:49 pm PT

There has been plenty of online hay made over the latest of the “Twilight” movies, “New Moon,” which has turned out to be a blockbuster for Hollywood over the last two weekends, pulling in $474 million worldwide. What’s unusual about this spoof of the hit series, from “Attack of the Show,” is that it stars Peter Facinelli, who plays “Twilight” paterfamilias vampire Carlisle Cullen.

A Gathering Storm of Viral Videos on Gay Marriage!

Kara Swisher in News on April 22, 2009 at 5:30 am PT

The issue of gay marriage is always good for controversy and lots and lots of rancorous lobbying on both sides of the issue. These days, of course, that includes a battle of online videos. The latest two are dueling it out on the issue, using a menacing storm as the theme, one quite serious and the other not at all, since it includes a giant gay repellent umbrella. Watch them both here.

Silicon Valley Leaders Say No to Proposition 8 With New Group and Ad

Kara Swisher in News on October 30, 2008 at 9:19 am PT

Today, a panoply of prominent tech and Internet leaders is taking a very public stand against a controversial initiative before California voters, which would eliminate the current legal right of same-sex couples to marry. Silicon Valley has had a long history of supporting gay rights. And recently, Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin has made a strong statement opposing Proposition 8, while Apple gave $100,000 to the help defeat it.