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What Shall BoomTown Ask the Twits–Oops, I Mean Twitter-Loving VCs–at Chirp...
Later today at Twitter’s Chirp conference in San Francisco, BoomTown is moderating a panel titled “Investing in the Ecosystem.” Or as I like to call it, “How Do You VCs Come Up With Those Crazy...
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Buzzword Alert to All Geeks: Please Replace "Real-Time" Web With "Right-Time"...
Earlier this week at Twitter’s Chirp conference, Venrock’s David Pakman seemed to strike a chord by coining a new buzzword that deserves to gain some level of acceptance. On a panel BoomTown...
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Kara Visits Google's I/O: The Attack of the Android Phones and Geek Social...
Here’s a video I did yesterday at the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco. I was there on the second day of the annual event to moderate a panel titled, “Where Is the Social Web Going...
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BoomTown Talks Girl Geek at Facebook Hack Event
This Saturday, BoomTown gassed up the Mini and motored on down to Facebook’s newest building in Palo Alto, Calif., for a Developer Garage and Hackathon, which the social networking giant did in...
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BoomTown Clarifies Ron Conway's Clarification of His Super Angel Fit (Plus...
Now comes the backpedaling. Of course. Today, well-known Silicon Valley angel investor Ron Conway sent a missive to his favorite missive publisher, TechCrunch. It was a “clarification” of his earlier...
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The Facebook Movie Is Here, the Critics Love It–So Let the Panels Begin!
The world of Facebook did not stop last Friday–although its unusual downtime was kind of spooky–when “The Social Network” made its debut in New York. The much-anticipated movie opens wide this Friday...
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The Facebook Movie: Sorry, Mark–But Critics Like It, They Really Like It!...
The Facebook movie is finally here, the reviews are in and–no surprise–the critics are raving. After all, it was done by Hollywood pros director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin, who have...
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Check Out PARC's 40th Anniversary Doings
Recently, there was an event in Silicon Valley to celebrate the 40th anniversary of PARC, the pioneering research facility that birthed a lot of tech’s most potent innovations. Ever heard of laser...
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Google's Android Kingpin Andy Rubin Will Open D: Dive Into Mobile (Plus, One...
While everyone is considering whether to brine or deep-fry the turkey this week, All Things Digital HQ will be busy with our preparations for D: Dive Into Mobile. That includes setting the program,...
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Spotify's Daniel Ek Splashes Down at D: Dive Into Mobile
Next week, we’ll be putting on our first brand extension of the highly successful D: All Things Digital conference with D: Dive Into Mobile. And we’ve just added an exciting new speaker to the already...
View ArticleApple Investing in Toshiba LCD Plant
Come 2011, Toshiba will begin construction of a new LCD panel factory in Ishikawa, one whose output is intended largely for the iPhone. Reportedly underwriting a portion of its $1.19 billion cost:...
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It's Hard to Cut the Charging Cords
What if there was a product that made it easy to charge all your household mobile devices and it used just a single cord to do it? Charging pads are designed to do just that. The WildCharge Pad from...
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Winklevii: How Can We Miss You If You Won't Go Away? (Plus the Full Court...
It seems Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the Don Quixote twins of the digital age, have tilted at yet another legal windmill unsuccessfully. So now, after losing another court challenge to overturn a...
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An Unlikely Pair (Me and Glamour Magazine, That Is) Tackle Women in Tech...
As readers of mine know, I write a semi-ranty post now and again about the lack of women in high-level tech jobs and on the boards of its major companies. While things are a lot better in the digital...
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Let's Play Word Association With Tech Moguls!
Earlier this year, I moderated a panel of tech leaders from the U.S. and Europe, at the opening of the DLD conference in Munich. To get things going, I used that old trick of word association,...
View ArticleViral Video: Common Sense Media's Kids' Online Privacy Panel
On Wednesday, I moderated a panel for Common Sense Media about online privacy, with a focus on the impact on children. It was a lively talk at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, with a most...
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Even More AsiaD Speakers: Yahoo's Yang, HTC's Wang, Samsung's Hong and More!
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 Oct. 19 to 21, the...
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Final AsiaD Speakers: Apple's Phil Schiller and Former VP Al Gore
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...
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Tech Is Glamour-ous: Mag Hosts Panel on Women in Tech (Video)
Earlier this week, I flew to New York to moderate a panel on women in tech for Glamour, part of an article I did for the magazine’s recent issue. As loyal readers know, I now and then get a bee in my...
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The State of Social Sharing With Fred Wilson, Roger McNamee and More (Video)
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...
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Corning Looks to Recreate the Viral Magic With New Video About Glass
One would hardly think a video about glass would go viral. But that’s what happened a year ago, when upstate New York-based Corning Inc., maker of optical fiber, Pyrex and the ultra-thin chemically...
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More D10 Speakers: Ellison, Meeker, Myhrvold, Along With Pixar and Visa!
A month ago, I posted an initial list of speakers for the 10th D: All Things Digital conference. After a decade, the event — which is held in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., just south of Los Angeles, at...
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Flat-Screen TV Prices: Anything but Flat
If you bought a new television during the first four months of this year, you may have paid more than you originally budgeted for. That’s according to the latest TV Tracker report from IHS iSuppli,...
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Privacy Experts Weigh In on Whether There Is a Cure for "Creepy" (Video)
Sometimes the Internet is a creepy place. There are identity thieves, stalkers and people generally trying to take advantage of you. At least that was one of the things that I took away from a privacy...
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Ready for the Industrial Internet? GE Announces "Predictivity" Platform, New...
At the recent D: All Things Digital conference earlier this month, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt talked a lot about the savings that could be realized via a massive expansion of the so-called...
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