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Happy T-Day From Honey Badger (And to All a Good Pepper Spray!)

Kara Swisher in Media on November 24, 2011 at 8:38 am PT

You know who don’t give a s*&#@? You got that right.

It’s Official: Arrington Out at AOL; Schonfeld New TechCrunch Editor (Plus Armstrong Internal Memo Too!)

Kara Swisher in Media on September 12, 2011 at 9:03 am PT

Our long, national non-nightmare in tech is finally over. Godspeed, CrunchFund!

The New Yorker's "Face of Facebook"

Kara Swisher in News on September 13, 2010 at 4:52 am PT

The New Yorker finally came out with its profile of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today, “The Face of Facebook.” And while the piece by Jose Antonio Vargas reads well, there is not much new in it for those who have followed the career of the young wunderkind of social networking. Except the irony of the “The West Wing” Like button part.

As Silicon Valley Infighting Gets Ever Nastier, Let's Be Careful Out There

Kara Swisher in News on May 7, 2010 at 8:50 am PT

Last week, BoomTown was in Washington, D.C., my old stomping grounds for 15 years. I miss a lot of things about living there, but most definitely not the poisonous political partisanship that you get sucked into from the minute you arrive. But it’s almost a relief to be there rather than in Silicon Valley, given how increasingly hostile the atmosphere is getting as a range of companies wrestles over a range of issues, both key and trivial.

As Silicon Valley Infighting Gets Ever Nastier, Let’s Be Careful Out There

Kara Swisher in D8 on May 7, 2010 at 8:50 am PT

Last week, BoomTown was in Washington, D.C., my old stomping grounds for 15 years. I miss a lot of things about living there, but most definitely not the poisonous political partisanship that you get sucked into from the minute you arrive. But it’s almost a relief to be there rather than in Silicon Valley, given how increasingly hostile the atmosphere is getting as a range of companies wrestles over a range of issues, both key and trivial.

Almost Famous: Mehdi Maghsoodnia of BookRenter

Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on March 5, 2010 at 1:35 am PT

This week: We took a coffee break with Mehdi Maghsoodnia, CEO over at Bookrenter.com. In Web 1.0 style, they do what their name suggests–rent textbooks to students and try to compete with school bookstores, Amazon, and a certain egg-themed competitor. Chegg it out.

Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger Gets Conditional Thumbs Up From DOJ (Plus D7 Video With TKTM CEO Azoff)

Kara Swisher in News on January 25, 2010 at 4:46 pm PT

While many thought it would not sail through regulatory scrutiny easily, and it has taken a year, the merger of two entertainment industry giants–Ticketmaster and Live Nation–can go forward as long as a certain set of conditions is met, the Department of Justice said. And while DOJ’s antitrust head, Christine Varney, told reporters today that she warned the two companies that the federal government was prepared to litigate if necessary, it–well–did not. Now, the combined company will be able to do everything from selling tickets to booking artists to selling their T-shirts and more. Does this concentration of power mean ticket prices will go up for consumers?

A Preview of Time Warner Earnings: Bummer at AOL, Bummer at Magazines–Just a Bummer

Kara Swisher in News on July 28, 2009 at 9:00 am PT

When Time Warner reports its second -quarter earnings tomorrow morning, before the markets open, most Wall Street analysts are not expecting much from the media giant, as it continues to slog toward a rejiggering of itself. Time Warner–which owns assets like the Warner Bros. movie studio, the AOL online unit, the HBO and Turner cable networks and Time Inc. magazines–is expected to earn 37 cents per share, compared to 72 cents a year ago, according to a poll of analysts from Thomson Reuters. Revenue is expected to be $6.97 billion, down from $11.56 billion in the same quarter last year. This drop is mostly due to the March spinoff of its cable unit, Time Warner Cable. But AOL and its magazine unit are expected to continue to drag on Time Warner’s financial performance.

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The Curse Heard Round the Globe–Well, Actually, Just the Web, But It's a Start for Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News on June 3, 2009 at 7:00 am PT

San Jose Mercury News columnist Chris O’Brien made a lot of humorous hay at the expense of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz yesterday, in a joke piece called: “Bartz Unveils New &*%! Strategy for Yahoo.” O’Brien cleverly created a fictional transcript of a Yahoo staff meeting where Bartz–by now, well-known for her salty language–lets loose in an address about just how sick she was of competitors getting all the good press: “So we’re re-branding the company around excessive use of profanity. Our new marketing slogan will be, ‘Yahoo, (expletive) yeah!’” Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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