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One More Reason to Occupy Wall Street: “Concern” Over Accurate Tech News

Kara Swisher in Media on February 8 at 6:44 am PT

Worrywart Wall Street is agonizing over facts.

Viral Video: Secret Code About Apple’s New York Media Event

Kara Swisher in Media on January 4 at 2:14 am PT

Apple is having a publishing-focused event in New York at the end of the month — simple as that.

Here Comes the Yahoo Spin Cycle–So Try BoomTown's Soap-Free Guide to What's Actually Happening

Kara Swisher in News on September 30, 2010 at 12:53 am PT

Here’s how Yahoo’s top brass and board–with the help of its newly re-engaged crisis-management PR firm, Abernathy MacGregor–are already trying to spin the latest executive turmoil to hit the company: Trashing those on the way out, to take focus off those remaining who have been just as responsible for driving the Internet icon, and claiming that this is all part of yet another well-planned reorganization at Yahoo. Don’t believe most of it for a second. Some of it is corporate politics as usual, some of it rejiggering of events, some just not true at all.

As BoomTown Said: Quattro Confirms Acquisition by Apple (Price: $275 Million)

Kara Swisher in News on January 5, 2010 at 12:34 pm PT

While Quattro Wireless was not saying anything about price in its blog post this morning confirming our scoop–like the image?–last night that it had been acquired by Apple, sources reconfirmed the $275 million figure Boomtown reported. “It was a great company and a good price and a good time to sell, given all the change going on,” said one person with knowledge of the situation. “It is a game of size now.”

BoomTown Is Once Again 100 Percent Prediction-Free for 2010–on CES, Apple's iSlate and Whatever Tech-tonic Shift Looms Ahead

Kara Swisher in News on January 4, 2010 at 5:16 am PT

One good thing about taking a break between Christmas and New Year’s is getting to miss all the 2010 prediction stories out there about the tech world. Oh, BoomTown will admit that I used to do them years ago. But they were mostly off-base in some significant way or, if by some chance I got one right, it was definitely a very lucky guess. So, last year, I made a resolution I am keeping this year: No predictions. That doesn’t mean I will not make some promises.

Yahoo Confirms Xoopit Purchase

Kara Swisher in News on July 22, 2009 at 5:44 pm PT

Yahoo confirmed the news–first reported by BoomTown and in The Wall Street Journal last night–that it was buying Xoopit, the San Francisco social email company. And it did so in both a blog post and on Twitter, as you can see here: @karaswisher @jvascellaro Your scoops confirmed http://bit.ly/gpOT2. Well, thanks! But we are already onto new scoops, so try to keep up! The price for the acquisition, which Yahoo did not reveal, was about $20 million, according to sources.