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Exclusive: Flipboard Raises $50 Million More on $800 Million Valuation

Kara Swisher in Media on September 23, 2013 at 7:00 am PT

Flip this!

Circa’s Matt Galligan on Building a Different Kind of News Reader (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on April 9, 2013 at 12:01 pm PT

Mobile news apps are hot. Summly just sold for a ridonkulous amount of money, for example. So what’s up with the “atomic bits” list-makers of the San Francisco?

A Political Storm as Conservatives Rage Over Lena Dunham’s “First Time” Video for Obama

Kara Swisher in Media on October 30, 2012 at 10:20 am PT

Hoo boy.

Facebook’s Sandberg Has Penned “Lean In” — A Book on Women and Leadership — Set for 2013 Publication

Kara Swisher in Media on August 30, 2012 at 12:00 pm PT

Get ready to debate whether a woman can write a book and run a social networking giant at the same time.

Hey Internet Girl: Aaron Sorkin’s TV News 2.0 Show Gets a Second Season (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on July 4, 2012 at 11:05 am PT

“The Newsroom” survives the Internet ice age.

You Can Handle the Truth: Aaron Sorkin to Appear Onstage at D10

Kara Swisher in News on April 23, 2012 at 10:30 am PT

You know who’s cool? The screenwriter of “The Social Network.”

Welcome to ATD: The Very Social Mike Isaac

Kara Swisher in Social on April 16, 2012 at 8:23 am PT

A new reporter to cover social, while a current one looks hard at what it takes to innovate and more.

QOTD: Forget the Tabloid Crap — It’s Time for Fancy Tabloid Crap!

Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

— Nick Denton, in his memo to staff on the Gawker empire in 2012

On The Verge of a New Tech Site, Which Finally Debuts

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.

Sister on Steve Jobs’s Last Words: “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”

Kara Swisher in News on October 30, 2011 at 12:50 pm PT

Apple co-founder and Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs lived a life that read like an epic novel, so it’s should be no surprise that his very last words on this temporal plane would be just as dramatic.