BoomTown was so glad we had this time together with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, just to have a laugh or sing a song about a major search and advertising deal.
I liveblogged the conference call, which I updated as it happened.
Did Ballmer scream and jump up and down? Did Carol say something naughty?
Read on!
It’s finally official: Marc Andreessen has crossed over to what he once called “the dark side” and is now a venture capitalist.
Several weeks ago, BoomTown broke the news that the Silicon Valley legend and serial entrepreneur and his longtime investing partner, Ben Horowitz, had completed the raising of $300 million for a new venture fund.
And, indeed, the new firm–which is made up of just the two–is now launched and called Andreessen Horowitz.
Of course, I had done a video interview with Andreessen with my Flip.
We had this video hidden away in Voices today, but BoomTown had to let it run free some more!
Why?
Can you say Wookie dancing to “Footloose” and Darth Vader to “Thriller”?
Frankly, that’s all I need to achieve nirvana.
And we are not even going to explain why Princess Leia dancing to “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” is simply divine.
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.
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