Liz Gannes in Social on September 22, 2011 at 12:08 am PT
Facebook, as expected, is set to launch tools and partnerships today that socialize users’ activities all over the Web. What does this all mean?
Drake Martinet in Social on August 15, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
Today, we’re updating social media on
AllThingsD, and I’ll be your guide to all the changes.
Kara Swisher in AsiaD on July 11, 2011 at 12:31 pm PT
D: All Things Digital is going to Asia and here’s some of the people we’ll be grilling onstage at the event, which will be held in Hong Kong from October 19 to 21.
Kara Swisher in News on April 18, 2011 at 5:46 pm PT
According to sources close to the situation, retail giant Wal-mart paid just over $300 million in cash for Kosmix, an acquisition announced earlier today.
That’s a big price for the six-year-old Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which has built a social media platform that organizes content by topic and had raised $55 million from a large group of Silicon Valley venture firms.
Kara Swisher in News on April 14, 2011 at 1:23 pm PT
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard.
Today, its co-founder and CEO Mike McCue confirmed a $50 million round at an eye-popping $200 million valuation, in a wide-ranging interview at the start-up’s Palo Alto, Calif., HQ.
Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 3:24 pm PT
A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app.
The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty, Time, Dow Jones and many other media organizations were part of the copyright violations action, which you can read all about after the jump.
Kara Swisher in News on March 24, 2011 at 6:04 am PT
Yesterday, BoomTown had a cheap Chinese meal and a chit-chat with Groupon CEO Andrew Mason in Silicon Valley–but not about what most people want to talk to him about.
Instead of the departure of the Chicago-based social buying site’s President and COO Rob Solomon, all he wanted to talk about and show off is Groupon’s latest real-time deal innovation, which it is calling Groupon Now.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 23, 2011 at 9:48 am PT
Google makes almost all of its money selling search ads. But it is pushing hard into display ads, along with technology that lets marketers buy display ads in “real time.” Great idea, Google says.
News Byte
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 14, 2011 at 11:07 am PT
Hewlett-Packard said today it had reached an
agreement to acquire Vertica, a privately held, real-time analytics platform company based in Billerica, Mass. HP said Vertica will enhance its capabilities in real-time business analytics for large and complex sets of data. HP expects the acquisition to close in the second quarter of its fiscal year 2011. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 1, 2011 at 10:13 am PT
Today Google Latitude will give users the ability to share their location with friends and strangers by “checking in” to a particular establishment.
