Kara Swisher

Facebook bought FriendFeed yesterday for one-tenth what it was willing to pay for Twitter. It may be a double bargain if the purchase allows them to move past Twitter in the real-time search war. Twitter recently redesigned its homepage to show off its real-time search, while Google is working on...

Reaching into its past, Yahoo!, Inc. (YHOO) has redesigned a cleaner, simpler homepage, in the hopes it will boost the company's future. As a a hub on the Internet, Yahoo! is called a Web portal, but that is an overused word that sounds dated. The premise of Yahoo!'s business is to get more users...

The only thing hotter than Twitter's internet service this year are rumors the company will be sold. Twitter founder Evan Williams said he will still be running Twitter in five years when asked by Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walt Mossberg. Williams and co-founder Biz Stone were...