Here’s what a top-notch source at Yahoo joked to me tonight, after Microsoft walked away from its unsolicited takeover bid to acquire the long-troubled Internet giant.
“Google is now officially our best friend.”
Oh no.
Instantly, an image popped into my brain–that of the slithery Kaa singing “Trust in Me (The Python Song)” to Mowgli from the Disney classic animated film, “The Jungle Book.”
I will be traveling south to Los Angeles Sunday afternoon to do a few days reporting there.
That will include visits to the offices of JibJab, Userplane, Disney’s Internet Group, as well as some catching up with newly minted investor Ross Levinsohn and Joost CEO Mike Volpi.
We’ll be headed that way again a week later to [...]
According to our video interview with Valleywag’s Owen Thomas that we posted last week, “money is the sex of Silicon Valley.”
If so, watch out for a new conference from blogger Paul Kedrosky (pictured here), planned for next year called Money:Tech.
Set to take place in February in New York (this dead-of-winter-and-thus-grimy-in-Manhattan prospect loses the conference [...]
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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