Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor for Re/Code - #PreMarket Prep for August 18, 2014

Special guest: Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for the Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau in 1997. Her column, “BoomTown,” originally appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and also online at WSJ.com. With Walt Mossberg, over the last 11 years, she has been co-producing D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech conference with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many other leading players in the tech and media industries. She is also the author of “aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web,” published by Times Business Books in July 1998. The sequel, “There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future,” was published in the fall of 2003 by Crown Business Books. Listen to the show daily here: http://optionshouse.benzinga.com/pre-market-show/ Open an OptionsHouse account and get 150 commission-free trades here: http://landing.optionshouse.com/benzinga/free150/?utm_source=benzinga&utm_medium=paid-banner-ads&utm_campaign=Benzinga&utm_content=free150:promo