Lauren Goode in News on February 7 at 11:04 am PT
Will a fight over thermostat technology heat up?
Kara Swisher in Media on December 9, 2011 at 10:00 am PT
Hey kids, it’s a new ad honcho at AOL! Replacing that other guy, who replaced that other guy.
Kara Swisher in News on September 22, 2011 at 5:45 am PT
Big play in China, as big investors pour a fortune into Alibaba Group shares to give its employees some walking-around money.
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.
Kara Swisher in Media on September 2, 2011 at 6:16 am PT
It’s a giant, filthy mud puddle of conflicts of interest in Silicon Valley, but everybody’s in the cesspool, it seems.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 29, 2011 at 9:39 am PT
Airbnb recently raised $112 million in funding, but it’s not getting off the hook quite yet for a recent incident in which a property listed on its site got trashed by renters.
News Byte
Kara Swisher in Media on July 18, 2011 at 4:00 pm PT
A new tech site, which has been
founded by a number of former staffers of AOL-owned Engadget, will be announcing its new name — The Verge — during an appearance by Editor-in-Chief Josh Topolsky tonight on Jimmy Fallon’s late-night television talk show. The Verge, whose charter sponsor will be BMW, will debut in the fall as a new competing gadget property for the well-funded content start-up SB Nation.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 7, 2011 at 9:24 am PT
I love the smell of blog wars in the morning!
Acting as Facebook often does to Google, a new site started by former Engadget editor Josh Topolsky just hired away yet another passel of tech journalists from the giant gadgets news and reviews organization.
It is Topolsky’s second major talent raid since he left his editor-in-chief job there in March, for a new gadget property aimed at unseating Engadget.
Kara Swisher in Media on June 15, 2011 at 6:04 am PT
Talking to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong earlier this week about its investors day tomorrow, he used the word “execution” a lot.
No, not the kind evoking a firing squad if he did not succeed at turning around the New York-based Internet giant soon as he has long promised.
He means the good kind.
