Kara Swisher in News on April 21, 2011 at 11:30 am PT
In March, BoomTown travelled hipster-Texas-style for the South by Southwest festival in Austin to interview Flipboard’s Mike McCue in an onstage interview there.
The well-funded Silicon Valley start-up makes an innovative and highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad and McCue talks about its next steps in this hour-long video.
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 23, 2011 at 7:15 am PT
Flipboard, the high-profile and highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, is out raising another round of funding at an eye-popping $200 million valuation, according to numerous sources close to the situation.
The Palo Alto, CA, company declined to comment on its new funding efforts, which sources said had recently accelerated.
Kara Swisher in News on March 18, 2011 at 12:15 am PT
One of the movies that showed at South by Southwest was “Source Code,” an action thriller in which a solider is on a mission to find a train bomber by occupying his body.
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, it actually looks terrific.
Kara Swisher in News on March 15, 2011 at 1:43 am PT
Conan O’Brien has been all over the South by Southwest festival this week, hawking a new documentary about his time wandering in the late-night talk television wilderness after he left “The Tonight Show” last year, titled “Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop.”
His hysterical journey, of course, was deftly played out by O’Brien all over the Internet, which was definitely on “Team Coco.”
Kara Swisher in News on March 14, 2011 at 3:01 pm PT
If you had to pick the hotsy-totsy start-up to win the media darling of South by Southwest award for 2011–following in the precious footsteps of Foursquare and Twitter from years past–it would probably have to be GroupMe.
Here are the co-founders of he group messaging/conference call/locations/photo sharing service enjoying their day in the sun–quite literally, at their free grilled-cheese-and-beer giveaway this weekend in Austin.
Kara Swisher in News on March 14, 2011 at 12:18 pm PT
As it turned out, BoomTown did not succumb to hipster poisoning on my sojourn this past weekend to Austin, Texas and the famous South by Southwest festival.
The annual gathering, which has interactive, music and film elements, started last week and is still going strong–fueled, as far as I can tell, by beer, blogging empanadas and excessive start-up hype.
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Peter Kafka in Media on March 11, 2011 at 7:32 am PT
There’s a lot of cool stuff happening in Austin at the South by Southwest conference this week, and All Things Digital will have three (3!) people on the ground to tell you about it. On the other hand, there’s going to be lots of stuff coming out there that isn’t so cool or interesting, and you may find breathless reports of such clogging your Twitter feed. One binary solution:
TweetDeck’s filter function, which allows you to block any Tweet with “SXSW” (or any other term you want) from your feed. Not an endorsement! Just an option.
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Ina Fried in Mobile on March 9, 2011 at 9:35 am PT
Aiming to ride the hip coattails of South By Southwest, Microsoft said it will launch the
IE 9 browser at the Austin event on Monday. Even those not cool enough to be in Austin, though, will be able to download the new Internet Explorer starting at 9 a.m. PT, Microsoft
said in a blog. The new browser aims to offer faster performance, greater HTML5 support and new tools to limit tracking by third-party Web sites.
Kara Swisher in News on March 7, 2011 at 12:15 am PT
Like many a geek–and after a decade away–I’m headed to South by Southwest later this week.
To get in the mood for the well-known multimedia festival in Austin, here’s one of the films making its debut this coming weekend.
It’s called “Attack the Block,” and has the best tag line ever: “Inner City Versus Outer Space.”
Which is just about how I am feeling about SXSW!
