Kara Swisher in Commerce on October 3, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
VCs search for a bargain in longtime digital promotions site.
Kara Swisher in News on September 26, 2011 at 10:09 am PT
Here’s an idea to get more jobs for the citizens of the U.S.of A.: Fantastic high-speed wireless access!
Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 28, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Google Inc. is the single largest contributor to the coffers of Mountain View, where it is based. But as the Web giant expands its physical footprint and seeks to build new offices, housing and infrastructure, the city government is pushing back.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 27, 2011 at 3:00 am PT
Pixazza is dead. Long live Luminate.
Kara Swisher in News on June 19, 2011 at 12:03 pm PT
With its annual meeting this coming Thursday, you’d think Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz would be taking a rest.
Not so!
She has been a regular Carmen Sandiego, in fact, jetting to Yahoo hotspots around the globe from Dubai to Milan to New York and then back to Yahoo’s Sunnyvale HQ.
Kara Swisher in News on May 18, 2011 at 1:59 pm PT
According to a press release about to post, LinkedIn will price its shares at $45 each in its IPO tomorrow.
The price, at the top of its range, will give the Silicon Valley business networking company a $4.5 billion valuation.
Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 25, 2011 at 1:01 pm PT
As Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page prepares to reclaim his role as chief executive on April 4, he has already taken steps to assume greater command of the Internet company.
Kara Swisher in News on March 23, 2011 at 12:21 am PT
Google hosted singing sensation Lady Gaga today at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA.
What more can BoomTown say, except that it is interesting to see the sublime meet the ridonkulous.
Kara Swisher in News on March 22, 2011 at 12:50 pm PT
Recently, BoomTown took a walk down digital Memory Lane with Bob Lisbonne, CEO of Pixazza, the photo-tagging service that has nicknamed itself “AdSense for images.”
That’s because Lisbonne used to be a big wheel at Netscape Communications.
We talked about the old days, of course, but more about the new days and his business focused on putting all kinds of advertising within online images.
Cari Tuna, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 8, 2011 at 12:20 pm PT
As more telecommunications carriers launch rivals to Amazon.com’s popular computing-services business, a Silicon Valley start-up is aiming to help them beat the Web giant’s prices by tackling one layer of the computing “stack”—data-storage software.
