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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Kara Visits AlwaysOn’s Venture Summit East!

Yesterday, I moderated a panel at AlwaysOn’s Venture Summit East in Boston, called “Is There Still Upside in the Internet?”
Short answer: Always and forever, as long as there are venture capitalists with bags of other people’s money and enough rat holes to shove the cash down!
In all seriousness, it was a great discussion, centering on [...]

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Monday, January 14, 2008

Facebook on ‘60 Minutes’: The Lost BoomTown Is ‘That Nasty Woman’ Video

Here are two clips of the much longer interview I did with Lesley Stahl of CBS’ “60 Minutes” for their piece on Facebook, which did not appear on the program last night. They are a bit tougher on the company, although I think they are also quite fair (paging Brandee Barker: That’s right, fair!).
In the [...]

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Thursday, September 27, 2007

More on the Facebook Hype–Oops, I Mean Promise

I got a lot of reaction from my piece earlier this week poking holes in the recent round of funding that hotsy-totsy social-networking site Facebook was looking for.

Two weeks ago, I broke the news that the start-up was looking to raise more investment dollars at an insanely high valuation from patsies–oops, I mean investors–like Microsoft, [...]

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About Kara

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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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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