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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Angel Investor Ron Conway Speaks (About His Wise-Up-Silicon-Valley Missive)

Of course, the stock market had to come roaring back and it had to be extra sunny on the very day I was scheduled to have lunch with well-known Silicon Valley investor Ron Conway to talk about the worrisome state of the digital sector.

After all, it was Conway, as well as Sequoia Capital, who sent out a stink bomb of an email last week to his start-ups to deliver a simple message: The Web 2.0 party is over.

Say it ain’t so, Ron!

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Friday, April 11, 2008

On the Menu at the Yahoo Top Managers Lunch Yesterday: Fear and AOL-oathing

For some reason, none of the half-dozen SVPs and EVPs I spoke to, who attended a lunch that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang held yesterday for several dozen top-level execs, wanted to tell me exactly what was on the menu, because they did not want to reveal that kind of precise detail.

Fish sticks? Corn dogs? A lovely club sandwich with applewood bacon? No dice!

But no one could stop talking about the unhappiness they felt over the possible deal Yang was concocting with AOL, as an alternate to the unsolicited bid made by Microsoft.

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Thursday, October 4, 2007

Blogger Charity Smackdown: Do Good and Also Help Kara Get a Free Lunch With Yahoo’s Jerry Yang!

So I call and email Yahoo PR all the time in what is now a futile quest to get some sit-down interview time with CEO Jerry Yang, whom I have known and covered for, I don’t know, what feels like a kabillion years.
So far, no dice!
I don’t know why, but it might have to do [...]

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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. 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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