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As expected, activist shareholder Daniel Loeb of Third Point released a new letter on the bio controversy he set off at Yahoo, again calling for the firing of its CEO, Scott Thompson. “It seems farcical to us that the Board will most likely spend m... 0 Published 15 days ago in
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A specific demographic of users have latched on to Google’s social service quickly, and that’s photographers. Virtual photo walks have been a mainstay of Google+ almost since its inception, and the platform has become the home to some of the ... 0 Published 38 days ago in
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Walt Mossberg and I could not be more thrilled to announce that Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, will be the opening-night speaker at our 10th D: All Things Digital conference. It will be Cook’s first appearance at D, as well as his first time being onstag... 0 Published 44 days ago in
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Today I was hanging out at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco, which consists mainly of marketing professionals who are looking for the best way to integrate social into their advertising campaigns. During a keynote with Guy Kawasaki and our friend ... 0 Published 51 days ago in
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Famed Hollywood movie director James Cameron has always been a geek, most especially an ocean geek, so it’s no surprise that he would be the one to dive seven miles down into the Mariana Trench’s Challenger Deep. That would be into the Earth&... 0 Published 59 days ago in
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You’re watching this unbelievable hysterical optimism despite the terror. – Mona Eltahawy on citizen journalists on Twitter in Syria and elsewhere, speaking at SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. 0 Published 74 days ago in
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Here’s a clever spoof video that was prepared for the TED conference, ending today in Long Beach, Calif. It’s for the upcoming movie by Ridley Scott, “Prometheus,” and pretends its main character (played by Guy Pearce) is a speake... 0 Published 84 days ago in
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If you’re interested in watching – or participating in – the disruption of the financial sector through technology right before your very eyes, register for startup accelerator Seedcamp’s next Seedhack event, which focuses on ̵... 0 Published 95 days ago in
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Percona is proud to sponsor the 4th Drizzle Day, this year being held on the 13th April, the day after the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. When: Friday, April 13th 2012 from 9:30 am Where: Cypress room, Mezzanine Level, Hyatt Regency Santa Clara (... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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We’ve been fortunate to host Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg twice on the stage of the D: All Things Digital conference, including one appearance with COO Sheryl Sandberg. With the blockbuster IPO filing of the social networking giant y... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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I spent last week at linux.conf.au in Ballarat, Victoria (that’s the Victoria in Australia, not wherever else there may be one) which is only a pleasant two hour drive from my home town of Melbourne (Australia, not Florida). I sent an email internal... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Poor Chris Dodd — he just got the top media lobbying job in Washington, D.C., at the very moment that the strong-arming-pols, scare-the-children, Jack Valenti era in media lobbying is now decidedly over. It’s obviously a very confusing time f... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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As has been widely reported, well-known TechCrunch columnist and Silicon Valley journalist Sarah Lacy has a new gig: Running her own new tech news site, which debuts today. (She’s pictured here with another recent adorable start-up of hers, named E... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Of course, this infamous kooky cat-on-his-head photo from a Vanity Fair magazine shoot made it into an upcoming profile of Groupon CEO Andrew Mason. Lesley Stahl of “60 Minutes” has done a piece on the Chicago-based social buying phenom, set ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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As I reported late last night, Yahoo said it had named PayPal President Scott Thompson as its new CEO. The exec is currently in charge of the large eBay online payments unit. He’ll start next week, but there are staff conference calls today and als... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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This morning, Yahoo said it had hired PayPal President Scott Thompson as its newest victim, oops, CEO. (You can read my interview with him too, here.) AllThingsD.com had reported the pending development last night — which is how we roll here. Now ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Oh joy — my boss is on Twitter. I guess I have to watch myself now. Or not! In fact, News Corp. potentate Rupert Murdoch, who happens to own this Web site (and more!), just inexplicably joined Twitter. And, like any newbie, he has already had to re... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Remember when Fortune magazine reported in September that Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had reportedly bagged a bison, as part of a “personal challenge” to eat only what he had killed? Well, proof of that is hard to miss, now th... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Last week over 1,100 developers came together for MongoSV, the largest MongoDB conference to date. 10gen kicked off MongoSV with our inaugural MongoDB Masters program, which brought together MongoDB evangelists from around the world. At the opening keyn... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Two of the more interesting online media properties are apparently joining up for a year-end online idea festival. The AOL-owned Huffington Post, and TED, the massive conference organization and online site dedicated to its offerings, will jointly featur... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Here’s a panel I did last week at the Privacy Identity Innovation conference on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley. The panel was called “Social Sharing and the Data-Driven Economy.” And while that sounds a little dry, it was a lively se... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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And then there was Schiller and Gore. That would be Apple’s SVP of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller and former Vice President Al Gore, who round out the stellar list of speakers at our upcoming AsiaD conference. Taking place from Oct. 19 t... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Today, Fortune magazine released its annual “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” and, as usual, it had its share of tech execs on the list. And off it, too — first and foremost being ousted Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, who was jacked complete... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is being considered by Hewlett-Packard directors as a possible candidate for CEO, in a move that would replace its current leader Léo Apotheker, according to several sources close to the situation. The appointment of Whitman &... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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And you thought former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz could lay into the Yahoo board with some zingers, including the not-used-enough “doofuses” insult. Time to meet Third Point’s Daniel Loeb, the smack-tastic hedge fund manager who has bought u... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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With AsiaD just a little over a month away, Walt Mossberg and I are adding even more speakers to the list, for what we hope will be an awesome event in Hong Kong. Taking place from October 19-21, the conference line-up is already impressive with a mix of... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Every day a bell rings, a venture capitalist gets its wings. Okay, maybe not, but longtime tech entrepreneurs Josh Felser and Dave Samuel will announce a new early-stage VC firm called Freestyle Capital, with $27 million in new investment funds. Felser an... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Here’s another interesting wrinkle to the ongoing saga of AOL, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington and his nascent venture firm, CrunchFund. Since the controversy erupted last week, Arrington has reached out to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, as well as ot... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Given all that has happened to the once promising Palm mobile platform this week, via the strategery machinating of its current owner Hewlett-Packard, it is long past time for a good laugh. Ergo, Silicon Valley venture capitalist and pundit Roger McNamee... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Photo by @saneel via @instagram, SxSW 2011 Although it seems insanely early every year, it’s time to start voting for panels at SxSW. Instead of spamming our professional and personal feeds with requests for support, we’re continuing a tradition we began ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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We’ve interviewed the man-who-would-be-Motoogle, Andy Rubin, twice at big D: All Things Digital events, and Google’s mobile head has always had a lot to say about where this key market is headed. Luckily, Rubin is also booked for an onstage i... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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In an onstage interview at the ninth D: All Things Digital conference in June, Regina Dugan — who is director of the federal government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — riveted the crowd by talking about a plane in developm... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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After our grand tour of Asia last week — with stops in Korea and Japan — it seems like a perfect time to update the speaker list for our upcoming AsiaD conference in Hong Kong in October. As Walt Mossberg and I said, we are trying to mix both... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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This is a very funny promo for the upcoming Emmy Awards in September, the annual television fest which is being hosted by “Glee” star Jane Lynch. Lynch, as you recall, declared herself the acting CEO of News Corp. at the ninth D: All Things D... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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On our week-long trip to Asia in preparation for our upcoming AsiaD conference in the fall — including a stop in South Korea earlier in the week — Walt Mossberg and I have spent the last few days in Toyko. That’s because while AsiaD wil... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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This week, my AllThingsD partner-in-crime Walt Mossberg and I are in Asia as part of our planning for the upcoming AsiaD conference in the fall. We’ll soon be announcing even more speakers for the event, which takes place in Hong Kong from October ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Google+ kingpin Bradley Horowitz has joined the board of Wordnik, which has also just raised another round of funding of $8 million. It’s the first board seat ever for Horowitz, who has been a bit busy of late launching the search giant’s fi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Yahoo — which turned in yet another disappointing second quarter on Tuesday, but with all new excuses for the continuing decline in revenue — is now getting toasted by Wall Street. That would be the marshmallow — and not the champagne &... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Microsoft has a lot to crow about in its fourth quarter earnings today, including a 30 percent jump in profits and strong overall revenue growth in its many divisions. It is sure a lot better than what Yahoo and Nokia turned in this week in their quarter... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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In a move reminiscent of one done by Facebook in 2009, Twitter is close to completing an $800 million funding deal that will include a second part in which around $400 million of the total will be used to cash out current investors and also employees. Ac... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Here are the slides Yahoo released about its second quarter earnings, in which revenue was down due to an unexpected drop in growth in its display advertising business, especially in the critical U.S. market. As you can see on Page 8 of the deck, year-ov... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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No rest for the weary D conference producers! Which would be Walt Mossberg and me, since we are now hard at work — after a very successful ninth D: All Things Digital — on our newest event: AsiaD. An international confab — this one will... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Do you think Zynga’s Mark Pincus would put a cat on his head for a national magazine shoot? Or LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner? Or, perish the thought, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook? But the wacky stylings of Groupon CEO and co-founder Andrew Mason seem... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Jack Dorsey has certainly had a multifaceted career, from plotting bike messenger routes to inventing microblogging giant Twitter to his newest payment start-up, Square. He talked about all this and more in this interview with me at the ninth D: All Thin... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Adobe Shantanu Narayen did a very funny video for the ninth D: All Things Digital conference about how he needed to become a flashier speaker. Get it? For those who did not, that is the name of one of the software company’s highest profile offering... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has not had the best of times since he left a top job at Microsoft to take over the reins of the Finnish mobile giant. What with layoffs, executive shakeups, an earnings scare and stock drops, along with a need to completely rehaul... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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With the piles of entertainment content available on the Apple iPad, it makes sense that someone was going to try to make sense of it. That would be Fanhattan, which is aiming to be an overall navigator for the popular tablet device, browsing across sit... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Léo Apotheker got to Hewlett-Packard less than a year ago, but what a year. From a board shake-up to executive shuffles to new strategic directions to layoffs and — oh, yes — a new tablet offering, called TouchPad and based on webOS, he’... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is well known in Silicon Valley as a funny guy, but he trotted out some serious stats in this onstage interview with Walt Mossberg at the recent ninth D: All Things Digital conference. Among the many topics: Acquisition interest ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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While I was in Denmark at a media conference recently, I shared the stage with Robert Shrimsley, the managing editor of the Financial Times’ Web site, FT.com. The longtime newsman is one smart dude, as you will see from this video, in which he talks... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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