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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

More on Retention Packages and Enhanced Severance at Yahoo

If you are feeling a little déjà vu about the news BoomTown broke this morning about new retention packages and enhanced severance benefits for Yahoos, in order to keep them from bolting in the face of Microsoft’s unsolicited bid (and to give them a payout in case it works), you are not wrong.

According to several [...]

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Monday, December 10, 2007

Of Facebook Financing Foibles and Fumbles

Let’s be clear on one thing: We won’t be getting any financial information out of the company about Facebook’s performance or the slate of its shareholders until it’s good and ready to hand it over.
That’s because, although it has been widely reported, the hot social network will not fall under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s [...]

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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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