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Trading Card Company Topps Buys Facebook’s Gift Card Provider

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on July 26, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Topps, maker of the trading cards from childhood, is expanding into digital goods with the purchase of GMG Entertainment, the gift card provider for Facebook.

Veoh's Dmitry Shapiro Speaks!

Kara Swisher in News on June 23, 2008 at 6:30 am PT

Recently, while I was at a conference in Los Angeles, I caught up with Veoh Founder Dmitry Shapiro. BoomTown will be focusing a lot on online video this year and Veoh is one of the several online video sharing sites–a group of smaller players that includes sites like Joost, Hulu, Dailymotion, Vimeo and others that I like to call not-YouTube. Still, it is making progress. Today, the Los Angeles-based Veoh announced that the ABC television network would put full episodes of its hot primetime shows–such as “Ugly Betty” (love it) and “Desperate Housewives” (not so much)–up on the site.

Yahoo Players Burkle, Icahn, Crawford and Also the Web Make Some News (Some, Not So Good)

Kara Swisher in News on June 4, 2008 at 6:06 am PT

You would have to have been under a rock not to have heard about the controversial piece in Vanity Fair magazine this month about the troubling personal and professional escapades of former President Bill Clinton since he left office. And the reason for these disturbing developments, besides Clinton himself? The piece actually placed a good bit of the blame on Clinton’s close friend, grocery magnate and billionaire Ron Burkle, who also has been one of the key directors at Yahoo in its takeover fight with Microsoft.