Kara Swisher in News on October 16, 2013 at 12:40 pm PT
Building your core is the key to success, I am told.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 30, 2012 at 5:30 am PT
Farms don’t have rocket launchers, but games built by Kixeye do. You also won’t find purple cows or other decorations — just blood.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 15, 2011 at 8:58 am PT
Speaking at Mobile World Congress, the Google executive says that contrary to critics, devices are actually improving human connections.
His talk is just getting started. Click here for live coverage from Mobilized’s Ina Fried.
Kara Swisher in News on February 14, 2011 at 9:04 am PT
UberMedia, which just bought TweetDeck for $30 million in equity last week, has raised $17.5 million in a round led by Accel Partners.
The valuation for the Pasadena, Calif., start-up founded by well-known entrepreneur Bill Gross–which was actually struck some month ago–is $40 million.
Kara Swisher in News on February 10, 2011 at 10:34 am PT
Facebook is exploring permitting a tender offer up to $1 billion of its employee shares, after being approached by a number of big institutional investors about investing in the company, according to sources close to the situation.
The new approximate valuation? An eye-popping $60 billion, sources said, which is a significant increase to a recent $1.5 billion investment round led by Goldman Sachs that had pegged the social networking behemoth at a $50 billion valuation.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 24, 2011 at 1:00 am PT
NetworkEffect talks to UberMedia, the perpetually renamed year-old start-up, about the business of buying up independent Twitter clients that compete with Twitter’s own options.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 21, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
Growth is good! But we still don’t have any real sense of how much money YouTube generates. And don’t even think about asking about profits.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 18, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
GameStop is expanding from primarily selling games in retail stores found in malls around America to a digital strategy that includes a new mobile component starting today.
Kara Swisher in News on September 16, 2010 at 1:45 am PT
After what started out as one of Web 2.0’s most frothy deals and soon became a contentious relationship, several sources said that Google and MySpace are moving close to signing a new agreement, in which the search giant would remain the provider of search and online advertising technology for the social networking site.
But, said sources, this deal is a lot different from the one signed four years back, when the News Corp. unit was flying high and Google forked over $900 million in guaranteed payments to stave off a competitive effort from Microsoft.
Kara Swisher in News on April 11, 2010 at 9:01 pm PT
Bill Gross is widely considered the man responsible for the invention of paid search advertising, which heralded such Web powerhouses as Google.
Now, in a can-lightning-strike-twice effort and armed with $3.5 million in venture funding from a group of leading investors, the well-known entrepreneur talks about his decision to monetize Twitter on his own and gives a tour of his well-known Idealab incubator where his newest start-up, TweetUp, is being cooked up.
