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Flipping Through Digital Pages With Mike McCue (Video)
Although Flipboard is Mike McCue’s latest venture, in some ways it’s old hat. After all, if you loosely define Flipboard as a browser of sorts, it’s the fourth browser he has been involved with. (Paper...
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Exclusive: Twitter Raises $200 Million at a $3.7 Billion Valuation; Adds...
Twitter has completed its latest round of funding–$200 million at a $3.7 billion valuation–with Kleiner Perkins as the lead investor, according to sources familiar with the situation. Sources said the...
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Q: Why No Twitter Board Seat for Kleiner's John Doerr? A: His Google Board...
Yesterday, star venture capitalist John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins forked over $150 million in funding to Twitter. At at $3.7 billion valuation, that got him a big chunk of the San Francisco...
View ArticleBackstage at the Onion's New TV Show
One day, maybe not that far off, we won’t distinguish between video we watch on the Web and the stuff we see on TV. But for now, TV is still the big leagues–the place you go if you want the biggest...
View ArticleWhy Andreessen Horowitz Models Itself After a Hollywood Talent Agency
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have raised nearly a billion dollars in the 18 months since they founded their Silicon Valley venture firm, Andreessen Horowitz, even though they’ve never been venture...
View ArticleKleiner Perkins Invests in Facebook at $52 Billion Valuation
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Facebook are together at last. VentureWire reports today that Kleiner is taking a small stake in Facebook by buying as much as $38 million of stock from other...
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Exclusive: Apple Global Marcom VP Allison Johnson Leaving Company
Allison Johnson, who has served as Apple’s vice president of worldwide marketing communications since 2005, is leaving the company, according to several sources. The reason? To co-found a new...
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Exclusive: Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard. Today, its co-founder and...
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BoomTown Will Have What Marc Andreessen Is Having–Investors' Splashy Win in...
When a group of powerful investors, including Silver Lake Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, waded into the mess at Skype less than two years ago with a $1.9 billion cash investment for a big chunk of...
View ArticleApps or Browsers? Yes, Says Marc Andreessen.
Can’t ask for a better authority on the browser vs. app debate than Mr. Netscape himself. Spoiler alert: Marc Andreessen says that everyone’s right–but that in the long run, it’s going to be browsers,...
View ArticleWhen Employees Misinterpret Managers
“Time is money, so I went and bought a Rolex.” – Wiz Khalifa When I ran Opsware, we had the non-linear quarter problem also known affectionately as the hockey stick. The hockey stick refers to the...
View ArticleKleiner Plays Catch-Up
Venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the late-1990s dot-com frenzy with investments in Netscape Communications Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and, later, Google Inc. But after...
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My Picks for Yahoo's Next CEO -- Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?
The firing of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz leaves open one of the bigger and more difficult jobs in tech — one that has taken its toll on many. Nonetheless, rapper Snoop Dogg stepped right up to the Twitter...
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Dialing Up 20 Years of Gadget Reviews
I began writing these Personal Technology columns 20 years ago, in October 1991, with the aim of reviewing computers and other digital products for average, mainstream users. The first line of my first...
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Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Talks About Giving 2.0
There are a lot of things to like about Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, who works by day as a lecturer focusing on strategic philanthropy at Stanford University, and also is the founder and chairman of...
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HP's Whitman: We Have to Walk Before We Can Run With webOS
I just got off the phone with Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman and one of HP’s directors, Marc Andreessen. We had a quick conversation about today’s decision to share HP’s webOS with the open source...
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Attention Marc Andreessen: Microsoft Just Bought (Part of) Netscape
Here’s a deal that would have made many minds explode back in the 1990s: Microsoft is buying Netscape. Or at least most of the important parts of the company that used to be synonymous with “Internet.”...
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Marc Andreessen Says Now's the Time to Build Companies Like It's 1999
Few people have the perspective of living and working in the tech industry that venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has. Founder of the browser company Netscape and then of the software company...
View ArticleLightbulb Moment
It was one of those moments. I picked up the paper and said, “That’s it.” – Mary Meeker, on picking up the New York Times on May 7, 1994, and reading a story about a new start-up called Mosaic...
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25 Things About Laura Yecies
Laura Yecies knows a thing or two about making things run — as a masters candidate in foreign services at Georgetown, her thesis instructor was Madeleine Albright. As a Harvard MBA, she started at...
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