Lauren Goode in Product Reviews on April 23 at 6:00 am PT
The wearable device pairs with some Android smartphones to send notifications and snippets of info straight to the watch.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 3 at 5:00 pm PT
Call it “Netflix for Magazines” — unlimited digital subscriptions for $10 or $15 a month.
Kara Swisher in Media on December 7, 2011 at 9:43 am PT
Still no sale or investment deal. No new CEO. No Asia resolution. And, perhaps most importantly, no clearly articulated strategy going forward.
Other than that …
Kara Swisher in News on December 1, 2011 at 2:23 am PT
Whoa, Nelly! How fantastic would it be for Silicon Valley tech legends Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman to battle for control of Yahoo? Too fantastic to actually happen. But one can hope.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 19, 2011 at 8:28 am PT
Time magazine is making it easier for readers to subscribe to its digital and print editions. And harder for non-subscribers to read the magazine on the Web.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 8, 2011 at 10:15 pm PT
Apple is winning over the big publishers. Last week, Hearst Corp. said it planned to start selling its magazines using Apple’s new iTunes subscription service. Now rival Conde Nast is actually doing it, via the publisher’s New Yorker title.
Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 3:24 pm PT
A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app.
The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty, Time, Dow Jones and many other media organizations were part of the copyright violations action, which you can read all about after the jump.
Kara Swisher in News on March 29, 2011 at 8:35 am PT
Yes, it is perverse, but I really want to come in dead last in Time magazine’s “140 Best Twitter Feeds.”
Why? Well, there’s no way I am getting near the top with the likes of Sarah Palin and Lady Gaga in the same list, so I felt the 140th–
get it?–slot on a Twitter poll is the next best thing to aim for.
Kara Swisher in News on March 23, 2011 at 10:20 am PT
At least once a day, BoomTown gets a call from investors, analysts or other troublemaking types–you know who you are!–wondering why Yahoo is still plugging away in search.
With a declining market share in the arena and a search technology outsourcing deal with Microsoft, it’s not a bad question to ask.
But Yahoo begs to differ, introducing a new feature called Yahoo Search Direct at an event in San Francisco today.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 16, 2011 at 1:13 pm PT
Not all states are equal when it comes to shopping online. Here’s a list that ranks states in terms of how fast and how much it costs to get parcels to your front door.
