Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 5 at 5:03 am PT
Banerjee is off to be CTO of the Swiss Industrial giant ABB.
Kara Swisher in Media on January 24 at 10:01 am PT
And you’ll be interested to see what he found.
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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 22, 2011 at 8:34 am PT
EBay
has acquired BillSAFE, which serves 15 million accounts in Germany, after buying a minority stake in the company last year. Terms were not disclosed. With BillSAFE, PayPal customers will now be able to receive an invoice for an order, after items have been shipped and received. Because of its security benefits, purchasing by invoice is used heavily in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands, eBay says.
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.
John Paczkowski in News on April 4, 2011 at 2:20 pm PT
Google argues that manually blurring out the faces and license plates sometimes captured by Street View is financially and logistically unfeasible. But the company’s going to have to do it anyway if it wants to continue offering the service in Switzerland.
Kara Swisher in News on February 6, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT
In a bold and definitive move, AOL is paying $315 million, mostly in cash, to buy the Huffington Post, one of the Web’s most prominent news and opinion sites.
As part of the deal, Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington–who was derided by some when she co-founded the left-leaning site in 2005 with investor and well-known communications exec Kenneth Lerer–will become editor in chief of a new unit that has purview over all of AOL content properties.
The deal was signed just this afternoon.
Kara Swisher in News on January 21, 2011 at 5:22 pm PT
It’s a big, wide and very digital world out there and that’s why I’m headed around the globe–quite literally–for the next week to see some non-Silicon Valley tech trends and more.
Kara Swisher in News on January 14, 2011 at 3:13 am PT
Two of Index Ventures’ high-profile partners–Danny Rimer and Mike Volpi–are opening a new Silicon Valley office for the Europe-based venture firm in September.
The move is actually more of a return home for both men, now located in London, who had lived and worked at tech epicenter for much of their careers.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 3, 2010 at 8:43 am PT
The battle to cut off WikiLeaks, the secret-exposing site that has official Washington in such an uproar, has turned into a global cat-and-mouse game on the Web. Here’s the rundown.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 1, 2010 at 11:43 am PT
Some sobering data points for the Droid army and a reminder that the Android onslaught is still largely a domestic phenomenon (for Koreans). Mobile Web usage statistics for the month of October compiled by StatCounter and Royal Pingdom reveal Apple’s iOS and Nokia’s Symbian as the dominant platforms, with Android besting them in a single country.
