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BermanBraun to Launch Three Non-HuffPost Sites — Including Weather — for AOL

Kara Swisher in Media on December 15, 2011 at 8:27 am PT

In a rare partnership, Arianna Huffington makes way for some fancy Hollywood online content producers.

Yahoo’s Product Runway: Are You In or Out?

Kara Swisher in Media on November 2, 2011 at 10:41 am PT

I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., to check out “Product Runway,” which is the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s attempt to show that it can still innovate.

Viral Video: Up, Up in L.A.

Kara Swisher in News on March 10, 2011 at 9:16 am PT

BoomTown is swanning around Los Angeles today, so it seemed apt to post this amazing video, in which one of its movies was made real in the skies. That would be Pixar’s animated gem “Up,” in which a house was carried away by balloons.

Microsoft: Consumers Should Think Twice Before Broadcasting Location

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 26, 2011 at 3:16 pm PT

In an interview, Microsoft’s chief privacy officer says consumers should double-check the connections in their social networks before sharing their location with so-called friends. Another area of concern is all those photos being geo-tagged by our phones.

Liveblogging Microsoft Bing's Search Summit 2010: There Will Be Donuts (and Also Cream Puffs!)

Kara Swisher in News on July 13, 2010 at 10:41 am PT

After BoomTown complained at December’s search summit held by Bing about the lack of the finest pastry known to man–namely, donuts!–minions were dispatched by top Microsoft geek general Satya Nadella to fix the dire situation. And, happily, at Search Summit 2010, there on the lovely snack table were a small pile of them–which looked like Krispy Kreme to me. There were lacking the key sprinkles feature, but carb crisis averted and back to search news!

Mobile TV Gets Closer as Backers Cut a Path

Lauren Goode and Amy Schatz, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 4, 2010 at 1:16 pm PT

Watching live television broadcasts on mobile devices is common in some countries, but not the U.S. A new effort is taking shape to change that. A group of broadcasters plans to use this week’s Consumer Electronics Show to promote their plans to deliver news, sports, weather and other local content to users on the go.

Bing Keeps the Changes Coming–But Is It Working?

Kara Swisher in News on November 11, 2009 at 10:00 am PT

It certainly is good to see Microsoft working the innovation thing, especially in the consumer space with its Bing search service. The ultimate goal is to gain market share for Bing, from striking deals with hotter companies like Twitter and Facebook to doing a massive advertising and marketing campaign to making constant feature upgrades. This is one of those weeks for Bing, with the launch of a spate of new features that show a lot of chutzpah. But whether all this will spell significant changes in market share compared to dominant rival Google is still an open question.

Fancy Charts of the Week: Mobile App Loyalty–”They Use or You Lose"

Kara Swisher in News on September 28, 2009 at 7:30 am PT

This week, BoomTown has found an interesting chart to peruse about the loyalty people have for their smart-phone apps. The takeaway for developers: Try to stay in Quadrant I! In other words, Sally-Field-at-the-Oscars territory–it’s where they love you, they really love you.