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John Murrell in News on June 17, 2013 at 2:24 pm PT
The San Francisco 49ers and Yahoo said today they had signed a 10-year agreement that will make Yahoo “the exclusive online sports content, social networking, and photo and video sharing partner” for the team and its new Levi’s Stadium, set to open in 2014 in Santa Clara, Calif. The deal will, among other things, provide the purple portal a prime spot for a Fantasy Football Lounge and viewing area, and will encourage fans to upload photos to Flickr with the chance that they may show up on the stadium’s big screens during the game.
Mike Isaac in D11 on May 30, 2013 at 8:01 pm PT
The two execs talk about a new connected sports stadium at the
D11 conference.
Kara Swisher in Media on August 6, 2012 at 9:00 pm PT
Tired of kids carrying home a backpack full of heavy books? Kno knows their pain.
Kara Swisher in News on June 17, 2011 at 6:32 am PT
Yahoo’s stock in on a downward slide again, just in time for its annual meeting next week.
So, WWSD (What will shareholders do)?
Kara Swisher in News on April 7, 2011 at 7:17 pm PT
According to sources close to the situation, Intel Capital and Advance Publications will lead a $30 million investment round in Kno, the high-profile student tablet start-up.
In addition to the funding from its venture capital ark, Intel itself will license the hardware design of Kno, which will now focus on its software to manage the devices that are aimed at the college market.
Kara Swisher in News on February 21, 2011 at 12:16 am PT
Kno–the much-funded and high-profile Silicon Valley start-up aimed at making tablet computers focused at students–is considering selling off the entire hardware part of the business and is in talks with two major consumer electronics manufacturers to do so, according to sources close to the situation.
But, if a deal is struck, the move would be a dramatic shift for the company, which has yet to ship significant numbers of the touchscreen device as it has long touted.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 16, 2010 at 10:29 am PT
The defendants include employees at several tech firms, including Dell, Advanced Micro Devices, Taiwan Semiconductor, and Flextronics. All worked as consultants for a research firm.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 3, 2010 at 11:06 am PT
Cyber Monday reached a record-breaking level this year with more than $1 billion dollars spent online, making it the heaviest U.S. online shopping day ever. And that includes the intangibles in our lives that you can’t touch or feel, and can’t ship in a box, like e-books and music and virtual goods.
Kara Swisher in News on November 8, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT
Kno, the high-profile Silicon Valley start-up trying to jump-start a market for tablets focused on students, announced tonight that it will have a limited number available by the end of the year for sale at prices of $599 and $899.
The lower price is for its single-screen device, while the clamshell double-screen version is more expensive.
Kno would not say exactly how many it has ordered for its first tablet production run–the device is being built by China’s Foxconn–but co-founder and CEO Osman Rashid said in an interview earlier today that units would number “in the thousands.”
Kara Swisher in News on October 27, 2010 at 11:00 am PT
Kno, the Silicon Valley start-up attempting to make and market a student-aimed tablet and learning platform, has hired Stuart West as its new CFO.
West has worked at Yahoo, InfoSpace, TiVo and J.P. Morgan.
Kno is continuing to make key hires, as it prepares to ship the product by the end of the year, after recently raising another $46 million in funding to add to a $10 million round. It could, with West’s help now, be looking for even more investment.