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class="title"><a href="https://allthingsd.com/20131231/you-say-goodbye-and-we-say-hello/">You Say Goodbye and We Say Hello</a></h2> <p><p>To our dear readers: Thank you, thank you very much.</p> </p> <p class="byline"> <a href="author/jason/feed.html">Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher</a> in <a href="https://allthingsd.com/category/media/">Media</a> <br /> December 31, 2013 at 2:00 pm PT </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="river clearfix"> <div id="left"> <div class="filters module"> <div class="river-header"> <p><strong>Kara by topic</strong></p> </div> <ul> <li alt=""> <a href="https://allthingsd.com/tag/google/?by=kara" alt="52">Google</a> </li> <li alt=""> <a href="https://allthingsd.com/tag/apple/?by=kara" alt="67">Apple</a> </li> <li alt=""> <a href="https://allthingsd.com/tag/yahoo/?by=kara" alt="142">Yahoo</a> </li> <li alt=""> <a href="https://allthingsd.com/tag/steve-jobs/?by=kara" alt="86">Steve Jobs</a> </li> <li alt=""> <a href="https://allthingsd.com/tag/twitter/?by=kara" 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class="byline"> <a href="author/jason/feed.html" rel="author">Kara Swisher</a> in <a href="https://allthingsd.com/category/news/">News</a> on December 31, 2013 at 12:24 pm PT </p> Tech and media bigs on the red-hot seat. </div> <div class="excerpt-image"> <a href="/files/2013/12/i-7nGs7q3-M-140x105.jpg" class="attachment-140x105 wp-post-image" alt="i-7nGs7q3-M" /></a> </div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="excerpt has-photo"> <div class="excerpt-text"> <h2 class="title"><a href="https://allthingsd.com/20131230/how-can-you-miss-us-if-we-wont-go-away-paczkowski-and-swisher-highlights-from-allthingsd/" id="epost-382039" class="post-link">How Can You Miss Us if We Won’t Go Away? 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