Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on February 8 at 3:01 pm PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 24 at 7:19 am PT
Facebook said today that it will finally migrate all users to its new Timeline profile layout “over the next few weeks.”
Lauren Goode in Social on December 14, 2011 at 8:15 am PT
Ah, corporate buzzwords. They’re enough to kill the forward-looking momentum in any strategic, synergistic meeting. And yet they’re used all the time in LinkedIn profiles.
Kara Swisher in News on December 1, 2011 at 2:23 am PT
Whoa, Nelly! How fantastic would it be for Silicon Valley tech legends Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman to battle for control of Yahoo? Too fantastic to actually happen. But one can hope.
Kara Swisher in Social on September 23, 2011 at 12:46 pm PT
Even though the social networking site wants to host “The Story of Your Life,” maybe who we were is not, in the end, who we really are.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 4, 2011 at 7:07 am PT
Well-known New Yorker writer Ken Auletta has taken on Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in the magazine, with a largely glowing profile titled provocatively: “A Woman’s Place: Can Sheryl Sandberg Upend Silicon Valley’s Male-Dominated Culture?”
My short answer is: No, she can’t. But good for anyone for trying!
Liz Gannes in Social on February 7, 2011 at 9:02 am PT
Kevin Scott, formerly an engineering director and manager at Google, both before and after its acquisition of AdMob, has joined LinkedIn as VP of engineering.
Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2011 at 5:39 am PT
In an interesting social enterprise move, popular social networking collaboration tool Seesmic is taking a $4 million investment from Salesforce.com, as well as from Softbank.
The San Francisco-based Seesmic has one of the top desktop and mobile applications for monitoring a consumer’s various feeds from Twitter, Facebook and more.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 31, 2011 at 4:43 am PT
One buyer, three exits: KIT Digital, which helps big companies manage Web video delivery, has picked up three start-ups for a total of $77 million.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 21, 2011 at 1:00 am PT
Google’s new CEO isn’t much for the social Web. If he has a presence on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn it was created with deep privacy settings or a fake name. I couldn’t even find a fleshed-out Google profile for Larry Page.
