Kara Swisher

Alex Jones deserved it. Donald Trump really deserved it. And now Marjorie Taylor Greene? She double deserves it. Like it or not, the toxic trio of the social media age, all of them promiscuous Twitter rule breakers, have now all been banned from the social media platform, as well as garnered…

When is free not free? I’ve been thinking a lot about that, as Twitter this week finally offered its “Blue” subscription to customers in the United States and New Zealand, after testing it in Canada and Australia. Twitter put some real effort into providing news-loving users like me a reason to…

Let’s just cut to the chase: Who’s going to replace Mark Zuckerberg as CEO.of Facebook? Before you go, “Whoa there, Kara,” let me just say that the horse is already out of the barn, whether the famed entrepreneur knows it yet or not. He is not going to go in quite the same way that we’re used…

It was a stunning thing to say, even if it is in many ways true. “They’re killing people,” President Biden said loudly enough to be heard under the roar of his Marine One helicopter idling on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday. He was talking not about terrorists or leaders of rogue…

It might seem a Silicon Valley cliché, but it was a garage — a pretty dumpy one for those who got to visit it just over two decades ago — that served as the birthplace of what the US government today is calling a crippler of competition, a reducer of consumer choice and a stifler of innovation. …

Hey, tech bro, can you spare a blank check? Apparently so, given the recent explosion in SPACs — the jaunty acronym for “special purpose acquisition companies.” While this investment instrument has been around for a long time, it has suddenly become the hottest way to raise capital,…