While we are waiting for the season finale of the Microsoft-AOL-Yahoo takeover–too bad we can’t blame the writers’ strike for the lugubrious pace of this deal–BoomTown will take you back in time to equally edge-of-your-seat times in Internet history in a series of surprisingly familiar stories.
Eerily familiar, in fact!
As you might imagine, while everyone is [...]
BoomTown recently had lunch in Silicon Valley with Ted Leonsis, one of the most colorful, interesting and early of the modern Web’s entrepreneurs.
Leonsis is best known as the man who put the oomph into AOL during its glory days in the last century, when he joined CEO Steve Case in 1993 to grow the company [...]
Yesterday, you could feel the testiness jump right over the phone from several people close to Microsoft whom I spoke to about Yahoo’s latest gambit to sell its blue-sky growth plan to Wall Street.
Like a lot of Yahoo’s various moves of late–dating promiscuously with other suitors, handing out pricey severance plans to all employees and continuing to spurn the advances of the software giant without a raise in its $31-a-share bid–the projections by Yahoo that its sunny future warranted at least $40 a share were not taken well in Redmond.
OK, we Photoshopped it, but only because we could not get our head around what the official Yahoo/Microsoft post-merger picture might look like.
OK, you might attribute it to being super-bored in the holiday doldrums. But, for some reason I cannot explain, I find myself strangely drawn to the videos being made about the start-up of Seesmic, the new video-sharing service that is being created by European entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur.
Up on his own loic.tv channel on YouTube, [...]
Well, we meet again, Steve Case and I!
You might think after two books about the rise (book one) and fall (book two) of AOL, the iconic company Case helmed, that we’d both be flat out sick of each other.
Actually, not so and, in fact, illness was a big topic for this discussion onstage–many of Case’s [...]
While it did not get a lot of play last week when Time Warner COO Jeffrey Bewkes dangled the idea of a stock offering for its AOL unit, the suggestion made my head hurt all over again thinking about the myriad opportunities that the online unit had missed over the last few years being held [...]
We hope you’ve enjoyed our show. Walt and I certainly did, and I think we both felt it was our best D thus far.
And that’s without what was clearly the blockbuster joint interview with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of Apple, which got a mountain of attention, as it deserves for both its historic [...]
We’re all in Carlsbad, Calif., now, getting ready for our fifth D: All Things Digital conference, which will begin tomorrow night.
So here’s one of my movies to show you how we prepare for the annual conference, which is highlighted this year by a joint interview with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs, the twin [...]
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 »
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