Tricia Duryee in Commerce on September 2, 2012 at 6:10 pm PT
Anyone wandering the streets of downtown Seattle this weekend would have felt the presence of the PAX video game expo. Here’s a glimpse of what PAX looked like from the inside.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 6, 2012 at 7:00 am PT
PayPal’s VP of Mobile David Marcus makes the case for why its mobile payments strategy will prevail in a market surrounded by incumbents.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 6, 2012 at 6:30 am PT
Check out the photos from a recent visit to PayPal’s San Jose headquarters, where
AllThingsD got an exclusive peek at the company’s brand-new “Shopping Showcase.”
Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 19, 2011 at 7:39 am PT
Animoto, a New York-based slide-show service that makes awesomesauce out of pictures and video clips, has launched an iPhone app.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 5, 2011 at 3:20 pm PT
There are a lot of them! And Apple hopes many of them want to buy Apple ads, too.
Kara Swisher in News on November 22, 2010 at 10:38 am PT
A few weeks ago, BoomTown sat down in a hipster coffee place in a hipster section of San Francisco to talk to the hipster trio of founders of AirBnB.
Which, if you think about it, is a very hipster name for what is essentially the ability to rent out your apartment, home or wack-a-doo space (such as a shoe-shaped hotel or Frank Sinatra’s Palm Springs estate).
It’s an alternative to other fast-growing similar sites such as VRBO–Vacation Rentals By Owner, only with more style and niche cool. But it did get the traditional venture funding, of course.
Kara Swisher in News on October 6, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT
Tonight, Yahoo is introducing a new set of search upgrades, moving to focus on boosting its experience for consumers as it ports responsibility for underlying search technology to Microsoft under its new partnership.
Among the new enhancements: A vertical “accordion” paradigm with shortcuts on search results that allow for new kinds of information presentation; “quick apps,” beginning with one for Netflix that lets its members add movies to their queue directly from the search results page; slideshows within search from the “Trending Now” lists on Yahoo; more immersive and theater-style photo and video search; and a new mobile search experience that uses HTML5 technology.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 29, 2010 at 3:00 am PT
Former Forbes.com publisher Jim Spanfeller has a new gig: A venture-backed Web publishing start-up.
Spanfeller Media Group, which plans to launch a series of new sites, is close to finishing a funding round that I’m told will total around $2 million. Backers include RRE Ventures, Greenhill SAVP, SoftBank and Lerer Media Ventures.