Peter Kafka in Media on November 17, 2011 at 6:37 am PT
Fleshbot is for sale. Why now? Why not?
Tom Loftus, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Social on November 15, 2011 at 1:15 pm PT
Facebook said today that a “coordinated spam attack” was to blame for the posting of pornographic and violent images on the news feeds of unsuspecting Facebook users.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 29, 2011 at 8:30 am PT
Maybe Hulu and other Web sites aren’t encouraging cord-cutting (yet!). But free Web porn
is cutting into a high-profit part of the cable business.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 12, 2010 at 8:40 am PT
Then perhaps it would be sending out communiques like this one, which aired on last night’s “Saturday Night Live.” Don’t touch my Angry Birds!
Peter Kafka in Media on November 2, 2010 at 3:58 am PT
It’s very distracting! And so are computers.
Kara Swisher in News on October 8, 2010 at 4:32 pm PT
Today, in a sharply worded post titled “In Defense of Standards, Ethics, and Honest Financial Reporting at Hewlett-Packard,” prominent venture capitalist Ben Horowitz took to his blog to shoot back at the plethora of critics of the Hewlett-Packard board for their conduct related to the controversial jettisoning of CEO Mark Hurd.
Let us just say, the longtime business partner of HP board member Marc Andreessen did not mince words.
“The first time someone created a camera, there was someone who said, ‘Wouldn’t it be good for someone to take off their clothes in front of this camera?’”
– Interpret LLC’s Michael Gartenberg on the porn industry’s plans for the iPhone 4′s FaceTime video chat feature
Peter Kafka in Media on June 15, 2010 at 10:00 am PT
Steve Jobs wants to keep porn out of iTunes. But not all porn. Check out the half-naked “Page 3 girls” in the new iPad app from The Sun.
Kara Swisher in News on March 10, 2010 at 5:17 am PT
On Monday night, Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley speculated that a BlackBerry screen featured on the latest episode of the red-hot television potboiler, “Gossip Girl,” could be a veiled Foursquare moment.
The text message on the screen reads, “Elizabeth Fisher just checked in at the Algonquin Hotel.”
Sorry, Dennis, not so, as there is no time in the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite to check in, especially since they are all too busy checking each other out.
Kara Swisher in News on February 12, 2010 at 11:47 am PT
Google’s Sergey Brin took the stage at the TED conference this morning for a brief discussion about the search giant’s recent declaration that it will pull out of the country if it has to continue to censor results.
“We want to find a way to work within the Chinese system,” said Brin, but without having to censor political search terms. “A lot of people might think I am naive and that might be true.”
