John Paczkowski in News on July 11, 2011 at 4:18 am PT
The World Wide Web Consortium is taking Apple to the mat over its refusal to allow some of its intellectual property to be included in the W3C’s widget standard.
Kara Swisher in News on March 16, 2011 at 12:02 am PT
Flixster–the popular social movie site whose brands include the Rotten Tomatoes premium reviews site, as well as BuddyTV–is in early acquisition talks with several suitors, including Yahoo, said sources close to the situation.
The price being discussed for the San Francisco-based start-up is between $60 million and $90 million, said several sources, in talks that are “substantive.”
Kara Swisher in News on December 2, 2010 at 2:10 am PT
LastPass, a cross-platform password manager and form filler, has acquired the social bookmarking and browser synchronization service Xmarks.
The San Francisco-based Xmarks has been in the midst of some tumult of late, as it closed down in September and then quickly opened back up again in an effort to keep its service running for a large group of active users and to find a new home.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 15, 2010 at 9:25 am PT
Here’s another bet on Web-based music: SoundCloud, a start-up that makes it easy to share streaming music, is about to land a funding round from high-profile investors.
Kara Swisher in News on September 28, 2010 at 5:15 am PT
Yesterday marked the end for Xmarks, the Mitch Kapor-backed social bookmarking start-up that was founded in 2006.
What was most remarkable to BoomTown was the classiness and honesty of the goodbye, especially in Silicon Valley, which is loath to call a failure just that.
Read on.
Kara Swisher in News on July 22, 2010 at 12:04 am PT
It’s nice to hear enthusiasm on the part of Linkin Park band member Mike Shinoda about an innovative-for-the-music-industry effort to give fans a chance to be part of the iconic Grammy-winning rock band.
While some artists or content creators cringe at the ongoing flood of user-generated material that has drastically changed the industry, Shinoda is hoping to find some real talent via a new online contest, called “Linkin Park, Featuring You,” that gives anyone an opportunity to collaborate with the band to produce an original song based on some of the tracks from the forthcoming single “The Catalyst.”
Kara Swisher in News on April 8, 2010 at 12:19 am PT
Social bookmarking start-up Xmarks, which has been growing its user base and bookmarked Web addresses strongly, launched a new advertising product today called SearchBoost, which it hopes will finally give it a viable business model.
Using a tool that displays user ranking and review information from the free syncing service, Xmarks Chairman Mitch Kapor said in an interview with BoomTown that the ad offering essentially “decorates” a paid search ad, thereby boosting click-through rates by 15 percent.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on March 24, 2010 at 6:06 pm PT
The latest TiVo model aims to seamlessly blend programming from conventional TV and the Internet, but it doesn’t go nearly far enough in tapping the Internet.
Kara Swisher in D8 on February 23, 2010 at 4:42 am PT
There is a new report out today by the Federal Communications Commission about high-speed access in the U.S., with all sorts of lovely data.
It is all part of an effort by the FCC to ferret away on a plan to get Americans better hooked up to the Internet.
Part of a newish government push to digitize this country, it will be spearheaded by Chairman Julius Genachowski, who is now coming to
D8, so we can ask him all about it.
Kara Swisher in News on February 23, 2010 at 4:42 am PT
There is a new report out today by the Federal Communications Commission about high-speed access in the U.S., with all sorts of lovely data.
It is all part of an effort by the FCC to ferret away on a plan to get Americans better hooked up to the Internet.
Part of a newish government push to digitize this country, it will be spearheaded by Chairman Julius Genachowski, who is now coming to
D8, so we can ask him all about it.
