Kara Swisher in News on March 12 at 3:00 pm PT
Even if increasingly irrelevant, being there at the start apparently has to count for something, says Yahoo in its allegations against the social networking giant.
Kara Swisher in News on March 12 at 1:15 pm PT
In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive legal attack against the powerful social networking giant for intellectual property violations.
Kara Swisher in News on March 12 at 11:20 am PT
It’s a nice break from similar groups that back companies designing apps to help people stalk each other at SXSW bars.
Kara Swisher in Commerce on January 25 at 10:05 am PT
Can a Hollywood star sell online consumers on a healthier lifestyle for them and their kids?
Kara Swisher in News on November 29, 2011 at 10:01 pm PT
While he has recently been portrayed as Mr. Potter of Silicon Valley, it looks like the online gaming leader will not get greedy in the IPO.
Kara Swisher in News on April 27, 2011 at 11:35 am PT
April showers bring…well, a bad month for the still-young stock of online content maker Demand Media.
After a successful IPO in January, shares of the Santa Monica, Calif., company have only seen gloomy weather after algorithm changes at Google–with the seemingly dulcet code name of “Panda” and designed to weed out poorly made content–started to impact some of its traffic.
Kara Swisher in News on April 6, 2011 at 1:28 pm PT
Yesterday, AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group got into hot water after the top editor at its Moviefone unit sent a memo to freelancers it was in the midst of firing, offering them an opportunity to “contribute as part of our non-paid blogger system.”
Today, sources said that exec–Moviefone Editor-in-Chief Patricia Chui–was fired by the company, which is in the midst of drastically rejiggering its stable of writers.
Kara Swisher in News on February 9, 2011 at 6:15 am PT
Memo to tech CEOs everywhere: Now
that’s how to write an internal memo.
That would be the 1,300-word one that Nokia CEO Stephen Elop apparently penned for employees at the Finnish telecom giant, which inevitably leaked to the media.
In it, he uses the harsh but cogent metaphor of a burning oil platform to take a bracing opening shot at turning around Nokia.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 2, 2011 at 6:01 pm PT
Some major benefits of the new Verizon iPhone service include crisp, clear calls with relatively few drops. But AT&T offers faster data downloads.
