Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 1 at 8:31 pm PT
Even though some customers are uber-angry about the price of their Uber car rides on New Year’s Eve, CEO Travis Kalanick still says the night was a success.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 7, 2011 at 10:15 am PT
Facebook will “imminently” launch a plugin for publishers and public figures to ask their readers to subscribe on Facebook directly from their own Web sites.
Kara Swisher in Social on July 5, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT
Usually, I don’t fall for this kind of stuff, but a posting tonight on Google+ about a marriage proposal in Paris by one of the key execs involved in its recent launch, Bradley Horowitz, is too adorkable to resist.
Better still: It’s
not complicated.
Kara Swisher in News on May 23, 2011 at 3:03 pm PT
Bonjour! Tout le Web heads for Paris tomorrow for a big Internet confab ahead of the annual G8 summit.
Can its organizer, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, sell Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on his idea that we all need a “civilized Internet”?
Kara Swisher in News on April 7, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Greg Coleman, the online advertising sales exec who keeps making bank after bouncing from top Web jobs, has a new one.
The former Yahoo, AOL and Huffington Post sales leader has just taken a job as president of Criteo, a “personalized retargeting” company.
Kara Swisher in News on August 27, 2010 at 6:36 am PT
Former Google international exec Adam Freed has taken a job as COO of Etsy, the crafts e-commerce site, which just raised another $20 million in venture funding.
Index Ventures is part of the new round, which also includes previous investor Accel Partners.
Freed speaks nine languages, which will come in handy at Etsy, since it helps craftspeople globally sell handmade items online.
Kara Swisher in News on March 1, 2010 at 1:57 am PT
Reviewers are falling all over themselves to praise a new videogame called “Heavy Rain,” which was released last week by Sony for its PlayStation 3.
Developed by the Paris-based Quantic Dream, using a 2,000-page script, it’s a murder mystery in the film noir genre, with a deep and complex plot.
John Paczkowski in News on November 12, 2009 at 12:16 pm PT
When it opens Nov. 14, Apple’s new Upper West Side store in Manhattan will be the company’s 280th worldwide, but it won’t be the newest store in the Apple empire for long. The company plans to open 40 to 50 more in 2010, some in locations like Shanghai, London and Paris. A few of these will be what Apple refers to as “significant stores,” outlets that are striking in both appearance and location.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 17, 2009 at 5:02 am PT
Even when the M&A market was shut down, Wall Street couldn’t stop speculating about GE’s intentions for its NBC Universal unit. And now that it’s deal-making time again, the chatter is getting very noisy.
Hence the flurry of coverage over yesterday’s remarks by Vivendi CEO Jean-Bernard Levy, in which he said…not very much.
