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 News on January 4 at 9:28 am PT
Meet the man who hopes to be the Carlton Fisk — the baseball legend who was nicknamed “The Commander” — of the troubled Internet giant.
Kara Swisher in News on January 4 at 7:01 am PT
Mind your P’s and Q’s and Y’s too!
Kara Swisher in Media on November 16, 2011 at 10:13 am PT
One thing Yahoo is good at: Giving other companies exec talent!
There’s a culture out here where people don’t commit to doing things. I feel like a lot of companies built outside of Silicon Valley seem to be focused on a longer-term. You don’t have to move out here to do this.
— Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in an interview this weekend at Y Combinator’s Startup School event, noting that he would have stayed in Boston if he were founding the social networking site all over again.
Peter Kafka in News on October 26, 2011 at 2:34 pm PT
Akamai president David Kenny has stepped down after a year on the job — and in the midst of Yahoo’s CEO search, where his name has come up as a possible Carol Bartz replacement.
Kara Swisher in News on August 17, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
Andy Miller, the high-profile VP of mobile advertising at Apple, is planning on leaving the company, according to sources close to the situation.
Kara Swisher in News on June 29, 2011 at 3:00 pm PT
In an unusual appointment for the longtime public servant, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will join Silicon Valley venture powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz as a part-time “Special Advisor.”
Summers got to know the firm with an assist from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who was a student of his when he was a professor at Harvard University.
Kara Swisher in News on February 10, 2011 at 2:10 pm PT
Everyone knows Myspace is for sale and that its owner, News Corp. very much wants to unload the troubled social networking site. That said, it’s not negotiating a deal via press releases either.
Kara Swisher in News on November 29, 2010 at 5:33 am PT
If Google does manage to close the deal to buy Groupon–acquisition discussions flagged by BoomTown 10 days ago–it will be at a cost that is likely to be much more than the $2.5 billion price tag being floated in the latest batch of rumors.
It’s not just that the deal will likely come in at a higher number, which will mean a big payoff for investors and bankers involved.
It’s because as soon as it purchases the social group buying phenom, the search giant will be buying a whole lot of pricey regulatory scrutiny too.
