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06
Nov
2009
Writers Brawl After Nerds Stop Brawling [Hackfights]

1 day ago by Ryan Tate

You'd think tech bloggers would learn from the peacemaking founders of Skype, who just dropped lawsuits holding back the $2.8 billion sale of their former company. Instead the writers are calling one...

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"V" Is Very, Very, Very V-abulous, But Not Online

2 days ago by Kara Swisher

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ABC certainly is taking its sweet time in releasing the first episode of “V,” a sci-fi television series that debuted earlier this week on the Web in any substantial way. It is showing about nine minutes of the redo of a 1980s miniseries about an lizardy alien invasion disguised as a peace mission b ...

BoomTown - kara.allthingsd.com · Rank: 130 · 3364 references

RealDepressing: RealNetworks' Latest Layoff Memo

2 days ago by John Paczkowski

Earlier today, Kara Swisher reported in BoomTown that RealNetworks (RNWK) would sack four percent of its workforce — 70 employees out of its 1,700-person staff. Below, the official internal memo from RealNetworks founder, chairman and CEO, Rob Glaser, breaking the news: Team – I’m writing to share s ...

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05
Nov
2009
RealNetworks to Lay Off Four Percent of Staff Today

3 days ago by Kara Swisher

The Seattle area is going to get another jobless jolt today, with RealNetworks (RNWK) planning to lay off four percent of its workforce, sources said. That’s a small number–just about 70 people out of its 1,700-person staff–but the move comes on the heels of layoffs of another 800 employees at nearb ...

BoomTown - kara.allthingsd.com · Rank: 130 · 3364 references

I Love the Smell of Settlement in the Morning: Skype Founders Set to Get 10 ...

3 days ago by Kara Swisher

According to several sources close to the situation, barring any unforeseen delay, a deal to settle the Skype imbroglio is likely to be announced around the time the markets open tomorrow. While the massive agreement is not yet officially signed–which will settle three aggressive lawsuits lobbed by ...

BoomTown - kara.allthingsd.com · Rank: 130 · 3364 references

04
Nov
2009
Sphere Leader Has Exited AOL–But Staying on as "Special" Venture Advisor

3 days ago by Kara Swisher

Tony Conrad, CEO and Co-founder of Sphere–the contextually relevant content engine that AOL bought in the spring of 2008 for upwards of $25 million–left the Time Warner (TWX) online unit last month, several sources have told BoomTown in recent weeks. But, in an effort by AOL’s CEO Tim Armstrong to h ...

BoomTown - kara.allthingsd.com · Rank: 130 · 3364 references

Clutter-Free, Twittified, Binged (and Also Apple-icious): The New MSN ...

4 days ago by Kara Swisher

The new MSN homepage debuts tonight and you would be completely correct for thinking the recipe Microsoft (MSFT) has cooked up to inform its design ethos–white, clean and hiply modern–has definite echoes of a certain longtime tech rival. That would be Apple (AAPL), of course, with a big dollop of Tw ...

BoomTown - kara.allthingsd.com · Rank: 130 · 3364 references

MSN's Bob Visse Talks About Homepage Redesign (Plus Microsoft's Videos With ...

4 days ago by Kara Swisher

Here is a video interview BoomTown did with Bob Visse, GM of MSN Product Management today at Microsoft (MSFT) offices in San Francisco. The new MSN homepage debuts tonight with a redesign cutting clutter, adding the ability to access both top social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, a local foc ...

BoomTown - kara.allthingsd.com · Rank: 130 · 3364 references

03
Nov
2009
Dozen-Year Yahoo Tech Veteran Ash Patel To Take "Time Off"

4 days ago by Kara Swisher

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Longtime Yahoo tech leader Ash Patel is taking some time off until early 2010. Yahoo (YHOO) confirmed the break to BoomTown. In recent days, many inside the company had mistakenly thought the 44-year-old EVP for Product Architecture & Strategy was departing the company for good. Actually, it’s more ...

BoomTown - kara.allthingsd.com · Rank: 130 · 3364 references

The New "Prince of Persia" Trailer: From Video Game to Jake's Awesome Abs?

5 days ago by Kara Swisher

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Here’s the new trailer for the upcoming video game to live-action Disney (DIS) movie, “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.” It still looks an awful lot like a video game and is chock full of special effects–but the adaptation also seems to feature much in the way of shirtlessness and mascara-wearin ...

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