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.
Kara Swisher in News on January 24, 2011 at 8:57 am PT
Here is former Napster troublemaker, former Facebook consigliere and current investor, entrepreneur and movie subject Sean Parker onstage at the DLD conference in Munich, Germany, yesterday.
It was vintage Parker, who always tries to paint himself as more of a geek than the multicolored life of the digital party. In truth, he is very much both.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on January 5, 2011 at 2:36 pm PT
Walt answers readers’ questions on the second edition iPad, printer sharing and freeing up hard-drive space on a Mac.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 17, 2010 at 5:20 am PT
When one thinks of Silicon Valley tech companies, Nokia is hardly a name that comes to mind. But the company has amassed a decent presence in the Valley, with about 500 people working on everything from research to inking deals with Web giants to building the features that the company hopes will someday soon return it to the forefront of the smartphone market.
Kara Swisher in News on December 8, 2010 at 12:02 am PT
According to sources close to the situation, online textbook rental company Chegg has acquired Cramster, a social online homework help platform.
The Cramster purchase is one in a series of start-up buys that Chegg has been making of late, part of a strategy to be a central place for student needs.
