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Kara Swisher

Is AOL Buying KickApps Too?

After its recent shopping of Bebo, is AOL buying the white-lable social software company KickApps is the question. KickApps, based in New York, has raised $17 million from Softbank Capital, Prism VentureWorks more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions  |  

Psst ... Facebook Finances Leaked

Planning to go public in 2009, Marc Zuckerberg needs to do something fast on the revenues streams in order to justify their huge valuation as well as the zooming headcount increase (shooting up 450 to more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Social Networking  |  

Did Slide Get Big Funding?

Kara Swisher talks about Slide, the San Francisco startup whose widgets are among the most popular on Facebook and MySpace–is completing a round of funding that could value the startup at many times more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Social Networking  |  

Li Ka-shing invests $60 M in Facebook

Kara Swisher talks about Facebook and its reported worth and reveals that Li Ka-shing, the Chairman of Cheung Kong Holdings Limited and Hutchison Whampoa Limited, has invested $60 Million in the social-networki more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Funding Announcement  |