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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Flip Flips to Cisco for $590 Million in Stock (Plus the Press Release)

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Pure Digital, the maker of the popular Flip digital video cameras, has sold itself to Cisco (CSCO) for $590 million in stock.

The deal, which had been rumored last week, was announced this morning by Cisco.

The simplicity of Pure Digital’s line of relatively inexpensive cameras has made it a huge consumer success, which is no easy task in the devices arena.

And Cisco has been trying to turbocharge its consumer-focused business and the move is a clear step in that direction.

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Friday, December 12, 2008

AOL Mulls Other Options–As Time Warner Wearies of Yahoo Waiting Game

Here’s a joke an exec at AOL recently sent me: Q: How many Yahoo and AOL dealmakers does it take to screw in a lightbulb A: None–you don’t need light if you’re never going to sign a merger agreement. Ahahahaha. Ha. Well, not really. So, seriously, what is Time Warner going to do about its AOL online unit?

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

A Video Smorgasbord From the Churchill Club’s “Sixth Annual What’s Hot and What’s Not in Personal Technology”

Last night, Walt Mossberg and I hosted yet another annual “What’s Hot and What’s Not in Personal Technology” event for the Churchill Club.

It was a gadgetfest with BoomTown, Walt Mossberg, Gadgetoff’s Greg Harper and Twitter Co-Founder and CEO Evan Williams presenting the digital show-and-tell.

Here is a rather longish video of the event, which is well worth watching. (Yes, I am–along with my No. 1 son, Louie, and an animatronic Elvis–wearing a Yahoo hat.)

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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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