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Tasty Geek: Nathan Myhrvold Takes His Modernist Cuisine to “Top Chef”

Kara Swisher in Media on January 7 at 10:38 am PT

A side of patent troll pâté anyone?

Siri, Why Don’t You Have A Texas Accent?

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 16, 2011 at 11:57 am PT

Surprise! Apple’s A5 chip is made by Samsung in Texas. That’s not the only thing inside the iPhone that comes from the Lone Star State.

Here’s Gowalla CEO’s Non-Denial Denial Email to Investors About Facebook Acquisition

Kara Swisher in Social on December 4, 2011 at 9:54 pm PT

Let’s put this one in the “done” column, shall we?

Cisco to HP: Please Stop Suing Those Employees We Poach

Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 23, 2011 at 12:47 pm PT

Cisco’s general counsel asks Hewlett-Packard to quit suing its own ex-employees who want to work for Cisco. But aggressive lawyers are suing ex-employees all the time.

U.K. Arrests Two More Suspected Members of LulzSec

Arik Hesseldahl in News on September 2, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

Police in the U.K. make the second pair of arrests in as many days in their ongoing investigation into the activities of the LulzSec and Anonymous hacker gangs.

Amazon Seeks Greater Fulfillment by Adding Distribution Centers

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on July 7, 2011 at 2:53 pm PT

Amazon is expanding its warehouse capacity at an insanely aggressive pace, having already announced five new distribution centers so far this year, including two since yesterday.

Pre-$200 Million Valuation: Flipboard's Mike McCue at SXSW (The Full Onstage Video)

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.

Exclusive: Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation

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.

Yahoo Bored Meeting? Not This Time!

Kara Swisher in News on April 13, 2011 at 9:35 am PT

Today and tomorrow, Yahoo’s directors are gathering here in Silicon Valley for one of their regular meetings that take place over the course of the year. While board meetings in general are usually pretty dull affairs–and Yahoo’s, in particular, are typically glacial ones–there is a lot on the plates of those with purview over the machinations of the long-struggling Silicon Valley Internet giant.