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Friday, November 30, 2007

Facebook Nabs $60 Million Investment from Li Ka-shing

While a lot of people were beginning to doubt Facebook’s ability to raise more money after getting a lofty $15 billion valuation following a $240 million investment from Microsoft last month, it seems the stakes are not too high for Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, who has made an investment of $60 million in the [...]

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Yahoo’s Good News From China

Well, news out of China for Yahoo has never been very good, what with all the human-rights issues–that would be jailing of people related to information the company has released to Chinese authorities there.
But, there seems to be some silver lining with the IPO of Alibaba.com. Shares of Yahoo did decline yesterday due to [...]

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Monday, August 13, 2007

Monday Morning Quarterback: The Navel-Gazing Edition and Where iPhones Are Born

Are we masochistic to love the Google move to allow subjects in articles to comment right next to the news stories?
As anyone who knows newspaper folks knows, we have been dragged kicking and screaming into the highly interactive social-media space. No matter what they say, in the past at least, few journalists welcomed the [...]

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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