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Exclusive: Groupon’s Mason Tells Troops in Feisty Internal Memo: “It Looks Good.”

Kara Swisher in Commerce on August 25, 2011 at 3:02 pm PT

Facing a barrage of negative press about its upcoming IPO, Groupon CEO and co-founder Andrew Mason took up a pen to counter critics of the social buying service in a pugnacious email to employees.

At South by Southwest, a Web 1.0 Blast From the Past

Peter Kafka in Media on March 13, 2009 at 12:24 pm PT

The annual nerdfest/Web 2.0 convention draws hordes of Twittering tyros–and at least one graybeard who survived the last boom-and-bust cycle just fine, thank you very much. Or more accurately: Thank Terry Semel’s Yahoo.

Hulu’s Super Bowl Pump Fake: Not Coming to an iPod Near You

Peter Kafka in Media on February 2, 2009 at 3:43 pm PT

Is Hulu coming to your iPhone? Or your iPod? That would be pretty sweet! But contrary to what some of us thought when we saw the video service’s first-ever TV ad yesterday, it’s not happening anytime soon. In retrospect, the tentacle should have tipped us off.