Kara Swisher in Media on September 7, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
While the Yahoo board has yet to begin a search, I have already been hard at work on selecting the next CEO.
Liz Gannes in Social on September 1, 2011 at 4:18 pm PT
TV legend Oprah Winfrey will be the latest and greatest celebrity to pay a visit to Facebook, where she’ll sit for one of Facebook’s live-streamed video interviews with its community next week.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 24, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
Social reading app Flipboard has partnered with magazine giant Condé Nast to offer a slew of magazines with branded advertising from major marketers.
Kara Swisher in Media on May 26, 2011 at 1:54 am PT
Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel bids farewell to daytime talk show queen Oprah.
Kara Swisher in News on April 14, 2011 at 1:23 pm PT
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard.
Today, its co-founder and CEO Mike McCue confirmed a $50 million round at an eye-popping $200 million valuation, in a wide-ranging interview at the start-up’s Palo Alto, Calif., HQ.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on April 14, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
Buzzy iPad app Flipboard has a new talking point: Professional talker
Oprah Winfrey. The social news service has struck a deal with OWN, the new cable network Winfrey is launching with Discovery, to give the TV host dedicated space on its home page. It’s the first time the app has struck that kind of a deal with a publisher, but it will presumably look to do more as it grows into a
$200 million valuation.
Kara Swisher in News on October 6, 2010 at 9:37 am PT
In a post last week, BoomTown wrote that Cisco would introduce a consumer telepresence product.
It did today at San Francisco at a press event. It is called, inexplicably, ?mi telepresence.
I’ll be honest, it sounds like sushi I refuse to eat.
In any case, Cisco’s entry into the crowded consumer video-chat arena will be $599 with $24.99 monthly fee and can be used with a high-definition television.
Kara Swisher in News on October 1, 2010 at 10:29 am PT
No, you may
not, and that’s what I said on Leo Laporte’s terrific “This Week in Tech” online show last Sunday about why Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his recent $100 million donation to schools in Newark, New Jersey, on the same day as the splashy Hollywood movie–”The Social Network”–eviscerating him premiered.
Because the powerful television talk show host wanted him on that week, since she was focusing on education reform! And what Oprah Winfrey wants, Oprah Winfrey gets–which is pretty much my motto for life.
Here’s the video.
Lauren A.E. Schuker and Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 24, 2010 at 10:00 am PT
Facebook Inc. executives have sought to discredit a new film’s unflattering portrayal of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, even as they worked behind the scenes to influence the movie.
Those efforts range from attempting to massage the script, according to one of the film’s producers, to promoting an alternative corporate history.
Kara Swisher in News on September 23, 2010 at 2:55 am PT
The question is: Which movie was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinking about when he decided recently to fork over $100 million to public schools in Newark, New Jersey?
Was it a bid to spiff up his image–with a splashy announcement on Oprah Winfrey’s popular television talk show tomorrow–on the very same day of the New York premiere of “The Social Network,” which casts Zuckerberg as the villain in his own creation myth?
Or was it another film, “Waiting for Superman,” a just-released gripping documentary about the crisis in public education?
Either way, Newark wins.
