Geekfighting may never become its own UFC event, but following tech news this week seemed, in places, like a view to a big, well-funded cage match. Things got so rowdy that Kara Swisher could hear them all the way across “The Pond.”
WiMAX provider Clearwire has expanded its Silicon Valley network to cover the Google and Intel campuses. This development is a long time coming as the two tech behemoths are principal investors in Clearwire. Cisco is another partner and expects to have Clearwire coverage soon. Everyone else in the San Francisco Bay Area can expect the 4G service at some point in 2010.
AOL, under new management and with a spinoff IPO on the horizon, continues to fill out its executive ranks.
The newest hire: former Yahoo exec Brad Garlinghouse will join AOL as President of Internet and Mobile Communications. Garlinghouse will report directly to CEO Tim Armstrong.
![happy talkjpg 250x250 Yahoo CEO Bartz’s Happy Talk About Microsoft’s Bing–As a Deal Nears, Goodbye to the Zings (Well, For Now!) [BoomTown]](http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/07/happy-talkjpg.jpeg "happy-talkjpg")
And there it was in Yahoo’s second-quarter earnings call yesterday, when–as the first question–an analyst asked Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz what she thought about Bing, the new and innovative search offering from Microsoft.
“I think actually Bing is a good product,” said Bartz. “I think they’ve done a good job. I think Microsoft should be given kudos for Bing.”
Google’s forthcoming computer operating system is the last straw: At some point, Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt is going to have to step down from Apple’s (AAPL) board of directors.
![arielogh 0006 199x300 Yahoo Product Head and CTO Ari Balogh Speaks! [BoomTown]](http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/05/arielogh_0006.jpg "Yahoo Product Head and CTO Ari Balogh Speaks! [BoomTown]")
In BoomTown’s bold quest to annoyingly stick a Flip digital video camera in the face of every Yahoo senior exec, this week I worked the last nerve of its CTO and EVP of Products, Aristotle “Ari” Balogh.
This guest post is written by Mary Hodder, the founder Dabble. Prior to Dabble, Hodder consulted for a number of startups, did research at Technorati and wrote her masters thesis at Berkeley focusing on live web search looking at blog data.
![296211136 2d8651f9be 199x300 Andreessen and Horowitz Complete Raising Dough for $300 Million Venture Fund–Let the Seed Investing Begin! [BoomTown]](http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/02/296211136_2d8651f9be.jpg "Andreessen and Horowitz Complete Raising Dough for $300 Million Venture Fund–Let the Seed Investing Begin! [BoomTown]")
Even in the midst of a tough investing environment, Silicon Valley legend and serial entrepreneur Marc Andreessen (pictured here) and his longtime investing partner, Ben Horowitz, have completed the raising of his new venture fund, according to numerous sources close to the situation, and it is oversubscribed.
Tragic news today for the Silicon Valley community. Rajeev Motwani, a prominent Silicon Valley angel investor and the Stanford professor perhaps best known for serving as the advisor for Larry Page and Sergey Brin during the formative years of Google, has passed away.
Heavy hitting angel investor Ron Conway, who’s been called the “Godfather of Silicon Valley” by Gary Rivlin, is now focusing most of his investment attention on “real-time data,” according to an email he sent out to friends and contacts earlier this week. Conway was one of the earliest investors in Google, and has invested in more than 500 startups, he’s said in the past.
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