Kara Swisher in News on September 30, 2011 at 4:00 pm PT
In answer to a direct question about whether his company was going to buy Yahoo at a forum at Stanford University in Silicon Valley this afternoon, Alibaba Chairman and CEO Jack Ma said: “We are very interested” in buying all of it.
Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg in News on August 15, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
AllThingsD has undergone a few changes to the social media on our site, including adding a social media editor, Drake Martinet.
Kara Swisher in Commerce on July 9, 2011 at 11:33 pm PT
Groupon sent out emails to its users this weekend, about changes it has made to its privacy statement and terms of use.
Among the most notable changes is more information about the Chicago-based social buying start-up’s collection and use of mobile location information.
In other words, if you let them, in order to improve the experience and make the app more useful, you’re being tracked.
Kara Swisher in News on April 15, 2011 at 6:35 am PT
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone took time off from his myriad of witty talk show appearances to slap around a just-published Fortune story that was titled–get it?–”Trouble@ Twitter.”
Was it a knockout?
Kara Swisher in News on March 1, 2011 at 9:31 am PT
According to several sources close to the situation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs–who is on a health-related leave from the company–is definitely considering an appearance at its big iPad 2 event tomorrow.
But the possibility–which would be a big sensation at the San Francisco gathering–is also just as definitely not confirmed as yet, stressed sources.
In any case, if he does appear, let’s hope everyone can pay more attention to what bells and whistles the iPad 2 has rather than how his jeans are fitting.
Kara Swisher in News on February 3, 2011 at 11:00 am PT
While he won’t officially take over as CEO of Google until April, the recent full-frontal slapfest on Microsoft’s Bing search engine for shoplifting results from the search giant was so Larry Page in tone and temperament that it brought back memories from many years ago when I covered Google more closely.
I would wager that we’re about to see a lot more of this pugnacious, in-your-face tone from Google under Page’s leadership, which could have far-reaching implications for the company.
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Liz Gannes in Social on February 1, 2011 at 4:15 pm PT
Path, the
personal media-sharing app, has
raised $8.65 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Index Ventures and Digital Garage Japan. The company said today it had facilitated the sharing of “over 2 million moments,” a.k.a. iPhone photos and short videos. Path is expanding ever so slightly to allow users to email pictures from within its iOS app, which makes sense since many people’s close friends and family don’t all have iPhones.
Kara Swisher in News on January 23, 2011 at 7:02 pm PT
Mike Murphy–Facebook’s first head of advertising sales, who left the social networking giant in October to take some personal time off–seems done with relaxing.
He is now taking a part-time, but significant, role at online gaming phenom Zynga to help formulate its advertising strategy.
In addition, though, Murphy is also close to formalizing an additional consulting relationship with Facebook.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 6, 2011 at 2:35 pm PT
In the midst of this investor frenzy around Facebook, it is critical to keep in mind that the most important “owners” of Facebook are its 600 million active users.
Kara Swisher in News on January 4, 2011 at 11:00 am PT
CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s clear intent to keep the lid on Facebook tight–with no disclosure about the details of the financial performance and other pertinent information a public offering would require be disclosed–is clearly becoming a nettlesome issue for the company.
But while that effort at preserving secrecy by staying private has resulted in little more than cute media guessing games about a possible IPO until now, the social networking giant’s most recent machinations are too clever by a half.
