Kara Swisher in News on April 27 at 11:05 am PT
Our long social patent fight is
not over.
Kara Swisher in Media on March 15 at 9:30 am PT
Can’t we all just get along? Yes! Hollywood grabs a piece of Silicon Valley content tech.
Kara Swisher in Media on February 15 at 9:01 pm PT
Simply put, this is a way to get them high-twitch youngsters to pay some mind to old, musty portals.
One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.
– Gabe Newell, co-founder of videogame company Valve, which publishes Portal and Half-Life
Kara Swisher in Media on September 6, 2011 at 8:37 am PT
Another ones bites the dust: According to sources close to the situation, longtime Yahoo Front Page chief Liz Lufkin has parted ways with the company.
Peter Kafka in News on August 24, 2011 at 10:42 am PT
The best video game-based movie you’ll see this summer is (barely) seven minutes long and on YouTube now.
Kara Swisher in News on April 26, 2011 at 6:37 pm PT
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has certainly had a very busy year, from the continued massive restructuring of the troubled Internet portal to ziggy-zaggy strategic shifts in content and advertising to a series of frenetic acquisitions, capped by the $315 million purchase of the Huffington Post earlier this year.
Also let’s not forget all those fabulous appearances with the media-genic Arianna Huffington.
Kara Swisher in News on April 22, 2011 at 10:58 am PT
One of the results of Yahoo’s weak earnings report earlier this week has been the renewal of chatter about possible changes in its leadership and even ownership.
And continued investor discomfort with its troubled stock price and the level of renewed grumbling by major institutional shareholders is causing some key players to go back to their PowerPoints to reevaluate various options.
Kara Swisher in News on April 19, 2011 at 4:55 pm PT
Earlier today, Yahoo reported its first-quarter earnings, which showed revenue and earnings declines, which the Silicon Valley Internet portal said was due to its search and advertising partnership with Microsoft.
Here’s more deets to peruse and numbers to crunch–in order to figure out whether to blame Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer or not.
Kara Swisher in News on April 6, 2011 at 8:49 am PT
Just what is SB Nation’s Jim Bankoff up to?
Earlier this week, he hired away eight staffers from AOL’s Engadget in order to create a competing tech news and gadget site.
And now, according to sources close to the situation, the former AOL content head is close to hiring another former top AOL media exec, Marty Moe, to manage it and also more niche sites the blog network is contemplating launching.
