Kara Swisher in News on April 28, 2011 at 2:48 pm PT
You’d think there would be a party in Redmond, Wash. today, as software giant Microsoft soundly beat Wall Street expectations in its third-quarter earnings released today.
But there are shadows too, as results were dragged down by weaker revenues for its flagship Windows unit.
The report comes as Microsoft’s stock continues to lag, declining 14 percent for the year.
Buzz kill!
Kara Swisher in News on March 25, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Last night in Redwood City, Chris Shipley–who used to run the famed Demo conference–had a ribbon-cutting for Studio G, a new office for her Guidewire Group aimed at the start-up community.
Here’s the video of the party.
Kara Swisher in News on March 15, 2011 at 12:15 pm PT
Last night, BoomTown attended a Silicon Valley book party for Amy Chua, the author of one of this year’s most talked-about tomes: “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.”
As it turns out, she says, the Internet got it all wrong about her controversial parenting advice.
Kara Swisher in News on March 7, 2011 at 12:15 am PT
Like many a geek–and after a decade away–I’m headed to South by Southwest later this week.
To get in the mood for the well-known multimedia festival in Austin, here’s one of the films making its debut this coming weekend.
It’s called “Attack the Block,” and has the best tag line ever: “Inner City Versus Outer Space.”
Which is just about how I am feeling about SXSW!
Kara Swisher in News on February 6, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT
In a bold and definitive move, AOL is paying $315 million, mostly in cash, to buy the Huffington Post, one of the Web’s most prominent news and opinion sites.
As part of the deal, Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington–who was derided by some when she co-founded the left-leaning site in 2005 with investor and well-known communications exec Kenneth Lerer–will become editor in chief of a new unit that has purview over all of AOL content properties.
The deal was signed just this afternoon.
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.
Kara Swisher in D at CES on January 14, 2011 at 9:01 am PT
Our next highlights video from our
D@CES event last week is of Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
Huang talked about how mobile is about to see super-duper-duper smartphones and also touched on the chipmaker’s legal battle with Intel, which was settled earlier this week.
Kara Swisher in D at CES on January 12, 2011 at 9:01 am PT
Our next highlights video from our
D@CES event last week is of Microsoft Internet Explorer chief Dean Hachamovitch.
Here’s Walt Mossberg’s interview with him, during which they focused a lot on privacy issues on the browser and the Web.
Kara Swisher in News on January 3, 2011 at 11:47 am PT
Sean Ryan, who arrived at News Corp. mid-year to set up a new online gaming unit, is moving to Facebook to head partnerships at its key gaming platform, according to sources.
Currently, Facebook does not create social games, but hosts third-party publishers of them on its king-making platform. Its most stunning success has been Zynga, maker of Farmville and CityVille.
Kara Swisher in News on November 9, 2010 at 8:29 am PT
If wishes were horses, as the old proverb goes, all beggars would ride.
Or, in the case of the incessant corporate drama around Yahoo: If wishes were deals, all bankers would get big fat fees.
Even BoomTown has been harboring a big wish that there were some new scenario–instead of the same retreads that have been bandied about for more than a month–that was at least
possible.
But because making up scenarios about the fate of Yahoo is all fun and games, it goes on and on and on.
