Journalists walt mossberg and kara swisher who were interviewing schmidt on-stage countered that google has been experimenting with social products like google buzz for a while now - it just hasn 't been very successful .
Kara swisher of all things digital described the possibility of a microsoft / adobe merger as " nonsense " and suggested that if any company was likely to buy up adobe , google would be a better fit .
Swisher , who reports on silicon valley for the wall street journal , does a good job recounting the company s turning points and depicting the assorted characters who led the way .
As first reported by kara swisher , the company not only priced its ipo above the proposed $ 16 - $ 18 range , but also added an extra 5 million shares .
Swisher and mossberg appear to be steering clear of traditional venture capitalists and tech billionaires , likely in order to minimize potential conflicts of interest .
斯威舍和莫斯伯格似乎在避开传统的风险投资者和高科技亿万富翁,可能是为了尽量减少潜在的利益冲突。
But it has never backed a consumer internet company , and swisher 's reported price-tag seems a bit on the low side for golden gate .
Kara swisher over at all things d goes through the list of alum who 've gone to greener pastures including former co-founder chris dewolfe and former co-president jason hirschhorn .
Kara swisher is reporting that news corp. ( nwsa ) could finalize a deal for the troubled social network by this thursday , with golden gate capital and specific media emerging as the leading bidders .
Maybe it somehow views myspace as a platform upon which it could build , but I 've got good reason to believe that golden gate is not as far along on this deal as swisher thinks it is .