Kara Swisher in News on November 21, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
The well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur joins Mike Jones at Science.
Kara Swisher in Media on October 31, 2011 at 7:18 pm PT
Tonight at 1 am PT, techies who have nothing else to do — that would be
me! — can click onto a brand new tech site called The Verge.
Kara Swisher in News on April 19, 2011 at 2:21 pm PT
MicroHoo is
funky!
At least according to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz on the Silicon Valley search giant’s first-quarter earnings conference call about its recent financial performance.
Yahoo’s results showed a continued worrisome revenue growth stall, due in large part to a search advertising fall-off, and a still-turning turnaround.
Kara Swisher in News on April 6, 2011 at 8:49 am PT
Just what is SB Nation’s Jim Bankoff up to?
Earlier this week, he hired away eight staffers from AOL’s Engadget in order to create a competing tech news and gadget site.
And now, according to sources close to the situation, the former AOL content head is close to hiring another former top AOL media exec, Marty Moe, to manage it and also more niche sites the blog network is contemplating launching.
Kara Swisher in News on February 22, 2011 at 2:08 pm PT
BoomTown always enjoys the maiden voyage of a newly public company, so liveblogging Demand Media’s first quarterly earnings seems like a must-do.
It’s also the first public outing for CEO Richard Rosenblatt, who has sold off his previous entrepreneurial efforts.
His first point: Where else can you find out how to ripen an avocado?
Peter Kafka in Media on February 4, 2011 at 10:44 am PT
You’d think that nearly two years after Tim Armstrong jumped from Google to AOL, he’d be done bringing former coworkers to his new gig. But you’d be wrong!
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 10, 2010 at 8:58 am PT
When you want to build an application that uses lots of data, one of the fundamental questions is this: Where does the data come from, and how do you get it into the application? Gil Elbaz, the man who created what’s now Google AdSense, thinks he has the answer.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 1, 2010 at 9:11 am PT
Kleiner Perkins last night closed one of its first publicly disclosed funding rounds coming from its new sFund,
an initiative designed to bring the august firm into the realm of the social Web. The company at the receiving end of the dollars is FindTheBest.com, a vertical database creator.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 18, 2010 at 1:06 pm PT
Earlier this fall the Time Inc. magazine tried making a point to Apple by making its iPad app harder to use. That’s over–but Time Warner is still making noises about its eagerness to work with other tablet makers.
Kara Swisher in News on November 15, 2010 at 8:40 am PT
Ross Levinsohn officially starts at Yahoo today, although he has already been busy machinating and taking meetings since he was appointed North American head recently.
The former News Corp. exec replaces Hilary Schneider, and enters a tumultuous job running Yahoo’s key media and advertising sales businesses.
BoomTown has yet another primer for him today, but first let’s hear from Ross in his first blog post to the troops at Yahoo.
