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CrunchFund? Unethical Ventures? Pig Pile Partners? No Matter What You Call It, It’s Business as Usual in Silicon Valley.

Kara Swisher in Media on September 2, 2011 at 6:16 am PT

It’s a giant, filthy mud puddle of conflicts of interest in Silicon Valley, but everybody’s in the cesspool, it seems.

Chill Out! Obama Doesn’t Hate Your iPad.

Peter Kafka in Media on May 10, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

The President of the United States suggests that perhaps technology distracts us from…sorry, I lost my train of thought there–was just thinking about the new iPhone. Anyway, there are words and stuff. Also, video!

Yahoo Dramatically Expands Twitter Relationship in Next Stage of "Project Rushmore" (Complete With Cutesy Bird Puns)

Kara Swisher in News on February 23, 2010 at 5:42 pm PT

Yahoo announced tonight that it is dramatically expanding its relationship with Twitter, integrating it broadly through its Web site, much in the same way it did recently with Facebook.

Yahoo's "Project Rushmore" Begins With Massive Facebook Connect Deployment Across Internet Giant

Kara Swisher in News on December 2, 2009 at 5:30 am PT

A few weeks ago, several sources at Yahoo began telling BoomTown about a mysterious “Project Rushmore,” which was described as a massive integration of major social networking sites across the giant Internet portal. Now, the first unveiling of Project Rushmore comes with this morning’s announcement that Yahoo will be integrating Facebook Connect with its many properties, from its powerful media sites to its Flickr photo service to its email. One delicious irony here: Yahoo almost bought Facebook several years ago.

Someone Who Used to Work at The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Gets the Last Word

Peter Kafka in Media on March 17, 2009 at 2:40 pm PT

One of the risks of employing a newsroom full of clever journalists — when you fire them, they might leave a biting memento on their way out.