Southern California

L.A. Stories: Mike Jones and Peter Pham Talk About the Science of Tech Studios (Video)

Kara Swisher in News on April 4 at 1:27 pm PT

Down in SoCal, there is some serious start-up experimentation going on.

Yahoo’s Bartz Also Gets Fired From Fortune’s Powerful Women List, While HP’s Whitman Gets Hired

Kara Swisher in Media on September 29, 2011 at 12:48 pm PT

It’s a tough life at the top, especially of a list.

UPDATE: AOL Won’t Deny It Has Sold Bebo

Peter Kafka in Media on June 16, 2010 at 8:15 am PT

Did Tim Armstrong actually find a buyer for his $850 million albatross of a social network? If he did, give that man a round of applause.

Los Angeles Times Staff: Fake News Story “Embarrassing and Demoralizing”

Peter Kafka in Media on April 9, 2009 at 1:56 pm PT

I was pretty blasé about the stunt that NBC and the Los Angeles Times pulled this morning: The paper ran an ad for a TV show in the guise of a fake news story on the front page. But then again, I don’t work there. Here’s the text of a petition that started circulating around the LAT newsroom this morning. I’m told that 100 members of the paper’s staff have signed it so far.