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| Jan 20, 2019 | Stung by criticism, Facebook’s Sandberg outlines new plans to tackle misinformation | Stung by criticism of its widely reported role as a platform capable of spreading disinformation and being used by state actors to skew democratic elections, Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg unveiled five new ways the company would be address... |
| Jan 22, 2018 | Elliot Schrage on Facebook backlash: ‘We have not done as good a job as we need to do’ | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
As Facebook faces a growing wave of criticism across a wide range of issues, the person in charge of crafting the company’s communicati... |
| Jan 22, 2018 | Elliot Schrage on Facebook backlash: ‘We have not done as good a job as we need to do’ | As Facebook faces a growing wave of criticism across a wide range of issues, the person in charge of crafting the company’s communications strategy wants you to know that executives understand they’ve messed up.
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| Sep 11, 2017 | Pitch your startup: Win over €3 million in advertising | Presented by SevenVentures
Launching into a new market can be a scary decision for any company. Deciding if, when, and how to take the leap can strike fear into the heart of the most ambitious CEO.
Regulatory complexities, lack of local mar... |
| Jun 12, 2016 | The operating systems of the 2016 elections revealed! | Andrew Keen Contributor
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| Jan 18, 2016 | CEO Reed Hastings optimistic Netflix will be in China, ‘soon’ or in ‘several years’ | When Netflix recently announced it was going to be available in 130 new countries, there was one gigantic hole in the list:
China.
Appearing on stage at the DLD Conference in Munich, Germany today, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings expressed hope t... |
| Jan 18, 2016 | Second Home Raises $10.7M From Yuri Milner, Martin Lau, Index And Plans Lisbon Home | Co-working spaces and membership clubs with a heavy tech bent have proliferated across the planet in recent years as the industry itself has exploded, and startups look to find flexible spaces to work. But not many have gone for such an ecl... |
| Jan 18, 2016 | Netflix’s Hastings: Battle for Earth will be between AI machines and genetically modified humans | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Before Reed Hastings cofounded a little company c... |
| Jan 18, 2016 | Get Around This Year's Sundance Film Festival In An Uber Helicopter | J.E. Reich, Tech Times 18 January 2016, 05:01 pm
This week at Sundance, the way to get around won't be by limo or cross-country skis, but by a helicopter you can request on-demand with the ride-sharing service Uber.
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| Jan 18, 2016 | Synthetic biologist discusses the ethics of designing life to save nature | Synthetic life — or the design of nature, animals, and other living creatures — is not so far away. It’s not necessarily a new subject, but the degree of what’s possible in the industrialization of nature is starting to dawn on some leading... |
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| Jan 18, 2016 | Netflix’s Hastings: Battle for Earth will be between AI machines and genetically modified humans | Before Reed Hastings cofounded a little company called Netflix, which is now changing the way we watch TV, he was an artificial intelligence engineer.
AI has come a long way since Hastings got his masters from Stanford University in 1988. B... |
| Jan 18, 2016 | WhatsApp Ditches $1 Annual Fee, Tests Business Accounts But No Ads, Says CEO | Today at the DLD conference in Munich, Germany, the CEO of Facebook-owned WhatsApp made a couple of big announcements about how the messaging app plans to evolve to its next phase as it approaches 1 billion users: the company plans to drop ... |
| Jan 18, 2016 | Netflix’s Reed Hastings says decisions on programming based on both data and gut instincts | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When it comes to Netflix’s development of origina... |
| Jan 18, 2016 | WhatsApp becomes free, will instead put focus on businesses | The app is rapidly approaching one billion active users, and should get there sometime this week
When Facebook bought WhatsApp for a whopping $19 billion a couple of years ago, the company had one revenue stream: after giving the app away f... |
| Jan 18, 2016 | Netflix’s Reed Hastings says decisions on programming based on both data and gut instincts | When it comes to Netflix’s development of original programming, there’s been a lot of focus on the company’s use of data to create its slate of new shows.
But during an appearance at the DLD Conference in Munich, Germany today, CEO Reed Has... |
| Aug 25, 2015 | Deutsche Telekom plans to invest €100 million in Israeli startups in the coming years: report | Late last year, German telco juggernaut Deutsche Telekom earmarked half a billion euros for a new hybrid innovation fund dubbed Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners (DTCP) in an effort to "considerably expand the scope and volume of its i... |
| Jan 23, 2015 | This week on VentureBeat: Profanities, HoloLens, 4chan, & more | Every week, the news team at VentureBeat brings you a blitz of news day after day, but even for our most dedicated readers it can be a challenge to catch every single story.
So, we’ve decided to pull together a handful of the best stories f... |
| Jan 20, 2015 | Uber to Cities: We Promise 10,000 Jobs | Travis Kalanick, the CEO of Uber, spoke on Sunday at the Digital-Life Design Conference (#dld2015) in Germany to share how Uber is partnering with cities all over the world to enable city transformation, including the creation of tens of th... |
| Jan 19, 2015 | Why is messaging app Slack exploding? Founder: ‘I have no f–king idea’ | Updated January 20 to correct Slack’s history. Butterfield only started one gaming company after Flickr, not two as previously reported. And Slack evolved from an internal communication tool, not a feature of the game.
We already knew that ... |
| Jan 19, 2015 | Why is messaging app Slack exploding? Founder: ‘I have no f–king idea’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Updated January 20 to correct Slack’s history. Bu... |
| Jan 19, 2015 | Rocket Internet CEO: We build real companies; work for Google if you like sushi and comfy chairs | Silicon Valley hasn’t found much to love about Rocket Internet, the Berlin-based company that is often derided for simply copying everyone else’s ideas. Turns out, the disdain is mutual.
Press-shy Oliver Samwer, chief executive and cofounde... |
| Jan 18, 2015 | Uber’s Kalanick Pitches Jobs And The Environment To Europe — If It Loosens Up | Speaking at the DLD conference in Munich today, Uber CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick sang a rather different tune than he has of late. In recent times, the service has been fighting fires on a number of fronts, from controversies about i... |
| Jan 18, 2015 | Let the healing begin: Uber CEO Travis Kalanick wants to create 50,000 jobs this year in the EU | In a bid to repair a fractured relationship with European regulators, Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick said today his company intends to add 50,000 jobs in the region and get 400,000 cars off the road.
Such growth could give a badly nee... |
| May 27, 2014 | Microsoft’s New CEO Wants To Look Beyond Its Past To Find Its Future | “Suppose Microsoft disappeared.”
It’s quite a hypothetical, given the software giant’s piles of cash and 130,000 employees. Yet Satya Nadella lobbed it in one of his highest-profile appearances as Microsoft’s new CEO, an on-stage interview ... |
| Jan 25, 2014 | Video Of The Week: Albert Wenger's DLD Talk | My partner Albert gave a great talk at DLD. It’s short (15mins) and I would highly recommend everyone give it a watch this weekend. |
| Jan 20, 2014 | Crowdsourced WiFi Network Fon Picks Up $14M Led By Qualcomm, Adds Facebook Integration | Fon, a free “crowdsourced” WiFi network that is created out of people sharing a portion of their private WiFi connections, is today announcing another $14 million in funding led by Qualcomm Ventures as it gears up to tackle new areas like t... |
| Jan 20, 2014 | Nest CEO makes more promises about keeping Nest away from Google databases | Nest CEO Tony Fadell onstage with CNNMoney correspondent Laurie Segall, defending Nest's privacy integrity under Google ownership.
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| Jan 19, 2014 | Investing In Startups In Europe | One of the big european tech conferences starts today. It’s called DLD and my partner Albert is giving a talk there tomorrow. The last big european tech conference was LeWeb and I gave a talk there. You might wonder why we fly across the po... |
| Jan 5, 2014 | For Your Diary — The Best European Events For Startups In 2014 | Back in 2012 I’d been to enough tech startup conferences in Europe over the previous few years to work out which ones appeared to be most significant. Europe being the disjointed bunch of countries that it is has too many to mention. That e... |
| Jan 28, 2013 | Keen On… Jon Miller: Why Content Will Be King Of Tomorrow’s Digital Economy | One of the high points of last week’s DLD Conference in Munich was the What’s Next? panel which explored the future of media in the digital age. Buoyantly chaired by DLD host Yossi Vardi, the panel included longtime media exec Jon Miller, w... |
| Jan 21, 2013 | Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro: The Future Of The Web Will Be Personalized | At the DLD conference in Munich today, Henrique de Castro, Yahoo’s new COO and Google’s former president of partners business solutions discussed the state of the web today and his vision for its immediate future. Sadly, de Castro argued th... |
| Jan 21, 2013 | Dave Morin, CEO of Path: ‘If Facebook Is A Chevy, Then We’re A BMW’; ‘Family Friendly’ Network Pushes 6M Users, Launches Virtual Goods | Dave Morin, CEO and founder of Path, today likened Facebook to a Chevy, and Path to a BMW or Audi, as he attempted to draw out the differences between his privacy-focused social network and the one that is now publicly-traded and recently p... |
| Jan 20, 2013 | Ben Horowitz: “We Like To Invest In College Dropouts With Insane Ideas Going After Tiny Markets With No Way To Monetize” | At the DLD conference in Munich today, venture capitalist Ben Horowitz took the stage to discuss why he and his firm Andreessen Horowitz invest in a company and its founders. Last year, he said, Andreessen Horowitz found 2,355 companies tha... |
| Jan 20, 2013 | Codecademy’s Zach Sims Talks Education 2.0 And Learning To Code At DLD | At the invite-only DLD (Digital – Life – Design) conference in Munich today, Codecademy’s co-founder and CEO Zach Sims talked about the history of the service, the way people are using it today and how he sees the company’s role to be in th... |
| Dec 17, 2012 | A List Of The Best Annual Tech Startup Events In Europe In 2013 | Back in July, we made an attempt at listing the best annual tech startup events in Europe, with some included from the Middle East and Africa. It was a ‘first attempt’ and as you can see, it’s a complex patchwork of events. But in general w... |
| Oct 25, 2012 | Keen On… The Bosphorus: Is Istanbul The Next Berlin? [TCTV] | Earlier this month, I had the good fortune to attend DLD Bosphorus, an event held in Istanbul and featuring some of the hottest Turkish start-ups and entrepreneurs. It was a memorable evening. Held on the banks of the Bosphorus, at Istanbul... |
| Feb 24, 2012 | Fast Times In East Berlin: Exploring Europe’s New Startup Capital | It is pitch black and freezing and I am in an old, abandoned ice factory in Berlin. The view from the roof is grand – the iconic, Socialist-era TV tower nicely defines Berlin’s skyline from across the Spree River. But we are here to see the... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd should be fired | Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had fighting words for Motion Picture Association of America chairman Christopher Dodd, calling the former Senator and current lobbyist out on his recent threats and pronouncing that the MPAA should fire its ch... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | eBay CEO John Donahoe: 2012 will be an “inflection point in retail, shopping, and paying” | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
“I believe that you’re going to see more change in how consumers shop and pay … in the next three years, than we’ve seen in the last 20... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd should be fired | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had fighting words ... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Facebook added $15.3B and 230k jobs to European economy in 2011 | Facebook added $15.3 billion in value to the European economy in the past year, COO Sheryl Sandberg said at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich Tuesday.
Sandberg, in her closing keynote on how social media is reshaping opportunitie... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Founder of Facebook for Russia donates $1M to Wikipedia at DLD | The founder of Russia’s largest social network proclaimed his love and support for Wikipedia today by promising to donate $1 million to the not-for-profit organization while onstage at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich.
Twenty-se... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Facebook added $15.3B and 230k jobs to European economy in 2011 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Facebook added $15.3 billion in value to the Euro... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Founder of Facebook for Russia donates $1M to Wikipedia at DLD | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The founder of Russia’s largest social network pr... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | eBay CEO John Donahoe: 2012 will be an “inflection point in retail, shopping, and paying” | “I believe that you’re going to see more change in how consumers shop and pay … in the next three years, than we’ve seen in the last 20 years,” eBay president and CEO John Donahoe said today at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich.
... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | Tumblr now reaches 120M people each month | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Tumblr’s quirky blogging platform and community n... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | Airbnb listers in New York average $21k a year | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Airbnb, a marketplace for living spaces, has a Ne... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | DLD 2012 – Drew Houston: “Yes, Steve Jobs Called Dropbox A Feature” | In a conversation with WIRED UK’s David Rowan on stage at the DLD Conference in Germany, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston acknowledged that he did in fact have a “great meeting” with the late Steve Jobs in 2009.
Houston said about the get-together ... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | DLD 2012 – Andrew Mason: Groupon Now Boasts 10,000 Employees, 70% Outside Of The US | Groupon founder and CEO Andrew Mason was interviewed by Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick on stage at the annual DLD confab in Munich, Germany.
Below are my notes – Mason’s responses are slightly paraphrased.
Also read: DLD 2012 – @Jack Dorsey:... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is grumpy, takes on critics at DLD | Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is grumpy. Donning jeans, a white collared shirt and black blazer, and shucking the goofy boy demeanor he’s known for, Mason took the stage at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich today and candidly shot dow... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | Airbnb listers in New York average $21k a year | Airbnb, a marketplace for living spaces, has a New York footprint so large that there’s at least one Airbnb rental on every city block, co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich Monday.
New Yorkers... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | Top retailers saw big holiday traffic gains thanks to Facebook marketing (research) | “Facebook makes our life so much better,” Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow said at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich today.
The “our” he speaks of may actually apply more directly to brands embracing the social network for social ... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | Tumblr now reaches 120M people each month | Tumblr’s quirky blogging platform and community network reaches 120 million people every month, founder and CEO David Karp disclosed at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich Monday.
Karp, citing the startup’s latest Quantcast figures... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | DLD 2012 – Brian Chesky: “Average Airbnb Host In NYC Pockets $21,000 A Year” | Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, took the stage this afternoon at the DLD Conference in Germany for a keynote covering his views about the ‘sharing economy’.
In terms of news, there isn’t much to report based on his talk, but Che... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | Top retailers saw big holiday traffic gains thanks to Facebook marketing (research) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
“Facebook makes our life so much better,” Buddy M... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is grumpy, takes on critics at DLD | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is grumpy. Donning jeans... |
| Jan 22, 2012 | Author Andrew Keen cries out against Facebook and lost privacy | “I’m here as a crier, raising my voice in defense of lost privacy,” entrepreneur and author Andrew Keen said, directly attacking Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s expressed views on identity and privacy.
Keen, the author of the soon-to-be-rele... |
| Jan 22, 2012 | DLD 2012 – @Jack Dorsey: “Twitter Has A Business Model That Works” | Earlier this fine Sunday afternoon, Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey took the stage at the DLD Conference, the annual pre-Davos meeting of minds held in Munich, Germany.
In an interview with not one but two journalists (Holger Schmidt... |
| Jan 22, 2012 | Jack Dorsey: Twitter seeing 3 to 5 percent engagement on Promoted Tweets and Trends | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The market has tested Twitter’s Promoted Products... |
| Jan 22, 2012 | Jack Dorsey: Twitter seeing 3 to 5 percent engagement on Promoted Tweets and Trends | The market has tested Twitter’s Promoted Products business model and found it good, chairman Jack Dorsey confidently asserted today at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich.
Twitter’s Promoted Products — including Promoted Tweets, Ac... |
| Jan 22, 2012 | Author Andrew Keen cries out against Facebook and lost privacy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
“I’m here as a crier, raising my voice in defense... |
| Jan 22, 2012 | Data and privacy rears its head at DLD | It’s only day one of DLD, the annual TED-like conference in Munich thrown by German media giant Burda, and already we have a few misunderstandings brewing. Amid the furore surrounding the SOPA protests and lobbying form media companies, at ... |
| Jan 22, 2012 | FCC chairman Julius Genachowski calls for SOPA compromise | The Stop Online Privacy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act may be on hiatus, but what’s really at stake are two equally critical values that don’t necessarily have to be in opposition of each other, Federal Communications Commiss... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Loic Needs To Get His Head Out Of His Silicon Valley | I have the hugest respect for Loic Le Meur. Years before anyone was organising a major tech conference in Europe (outside of the dull corporate IT ones) Loic was charging ahead with first Les Blogs, which became the juggernaut of Le Web. It... |
| Jun 24, 2011 | Is There A European Tech Incubator Bubble? | Something is happening in Europe. The tectonic plates in the startup ecosystem are moving and, like penguins on ice-flows, we all are slithering around trying to get a handle on how things will play out over the next couple of years.
We’re ... |
| Jun 10, 2011 | Lipdub? No. Founders Forum re-creates Bond movie featuring Europe's startup stars | Kinnernet in Israel did a lipdub. DLD in Germany did a lipdub.
But at Founders Forum, the annual meeting of European startups CEOs who’ve (for want of a better phrase) “made it”, they like to go one better.
Last night attendees were treated... |
| Mar 15, 2011 | Doodle Jump scores 10 million mobile downloads for two brothers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Doodle Jump, an enormously popular game on the iPhone built by two brothers in New York, has been downloaded more than 10 million times... |
| Mar 15, 2011 | Doodle Jump scores 10 million mobile downloads for two brothers | Doodle Jump, an enormously popular game on the iPhone built by two brothers in New York, has been downloaded more than 10 million times across the iPhone, iPad, and Android mobile devices.
That’s quite an achievement, but one that is becomi... |
| Mar 4, 2011 | Geotrio Wants To Be The YouTube For Tours | Startup Geotrio is launching today as a centralized platform for anyone to create, take and share tours. Tours range from historical and architectural tours for travelers, campus tours for prospective students, neighborhood tours, local sho... |
| Jan 28, 2011 | Doodle Jump game maker Lima Sky goes Hollywood with movie deal | Doodle Jump, an enormously popular game on the iPhone, is going Hollywood in a marketing deal with Universal Pictures, which plans to cross-promote the app in promotions for its upcoming live action and computer-animated comedy, Hop.
Doodle... |
| Jan 28, 2011 | For $200,000, George Whitesides will send you into space (video) | They call it New Space, a commercial effort to send people into space as tourists. Entrepreneurs are creating startups that are flying tourists into space, for a fee. One of the companies doing so is Virgin Galactic, a startup funded by bil... |
| Jan 28, 2011 | Doodle Jump game maker Lima Sky goes Hollywood with movie deal | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Doodle Jump, an enormously popular game on the iPhone, is going Hollywood in a marketing deal with Universal Pictures, which plans to c... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | Eric Schmidt’s talk on age of “augmented humanity” at DLD (video) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google’s Eric Schmidt gave a talk about his visio... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | DLD11: Boticca is breaking the back of intercontinental designer jewellery sales (TCTV) | Boticca, which launched out of London late last year, is an ecommerce startup which creates a marketplace for limited edition designer original jewellery and other accessories. Created by former Accel Partners associate Avid Larizadeh and c... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | Eric Schmidt’s talk on age of “augmented humanity” at DLD (video) | Google’s Eric Schmidt gave a talk about his vision for the next decade at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich, where he predicted an age of “augmented humanity.” He sees computers finally getting smart enough to start helping us ou... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | Layar Player lets others embed augmented reality in iPhone apps | Augmented reality company Layar said today that it has launched a new augmented reality player that can be embedded for free in iPhone applications.
The new Layar Player from the Amsterdam-based company came out of beta testing today and is... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | With 32M kids online, Moshi Monsters invade toy market (video) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Hybrid models of online games and toys are getting fashionable. Yesterday, Mind Candy announced that its Moshi Monsters online game cha... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | With 32M kids online, Moshi Monsters invade toy market (video) | Hybrid models of online games and toys are getting fashionable. Yesterday, Mind Candy announced that its Moshi Monsters online game characters are now moving into the real world in the form of toys.
Michael Smith, chief executive England-ba... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | Lip Dub Video: Everybody Cut Footloose At DLD (Tech Celebs Dance, Pretend To Sing) | I’ve been to a lot of tech and media conference in my day, but this week marked the first time I attended the annual Digital – Life – Design (DLD) Conference in Munich, Germany.
Not only was it a great opportunity to listen to, meet with, a... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | News Corp. chief James Murdoch wants to toss the newspaper onto your iPad | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
James Murdoch is the chairman and chief executive of News Corp. And he’s the son of Rupert Murdoch, the mogul who created the far-flung... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | Jason Calacanis: Sometimes you have to redefine your business to survive | Entrepreneur, blogger Jason Calacanis says entrepreneurs have to learn to pivot from one business to another when one plan isn’t working. Speaking at the Digital Life Design conference in Muich today, Calacanis said that he had to do just t... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | HP remakes corporate philanthropy by donating its expertise to nonprofits | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Hewlett-Packard is reshaping its policies on givi... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | Can there be a tech bubble without an IPO frenzy? (video) | Since 2008, the initial public offering market for tech startups in the U.S. has been pretty dead. In 2010, 42 tech companies went public, compared to 17 the year before. But that pace is slow compared to past boom years.
Many of the IPOs a... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | HP remakes corporate philanthropy by donating its expertise to nonprofits | Hewlett-Packard is reshaping its policies on giving away money to nonprofit causes. Now the company will not just give away money. It will also donate the expertise of its employees to build solutions for nonprofits.
The change in policy ma... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | Jason Calacanis: Sometimes you have to redefine your business to survive | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Entrepreneur, blogger Jason Calacanis says entrep... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | Eric Schmidt sees next decade as age of “augmented humanity” | Eric Schmidt may not be chief executive of Google for long (he turns that title over to Larry Page on April 4). But he isn’t going to stop sharing his vision for the future.
The chairman of Google talked about the next decade and how it wil... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | Eric Schmidt sees next decade as age of “augmented humanity” | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Eric Schmidt may not be chief executive of Google for long (he turns that title over to Larry Page on April 4). But he isn’t going to s... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | Eric Schmidt At DLD11: Google Will Add 1,000 New Employees In Europe | In the closing keynote of the DLD Conference in Germany, soon to be former Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage, notably less than a week after passing on the reins of the company to Google co-founder Larry Page.
These are my live notes f... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | Mahalo Pivots to Focus on Video-Based Learning | Serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis has just announced Mahalo 4.0, the latest pivot for his company that has now moved from being a “human-powered search engine” to a Q&A site. The new Mahalo, unveiled at the Digital Life Conference tod... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Outfit7’s talking-animal apps hit 60M downloads on App Store | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Angry Birds isn’t the only animal game selling like crazy on the App Store. Outfit7‘s Talking Tom Cat and other titles in the Talking F... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Facebook exec says we’re moving from the “wisdom of crowds” to the “wisdom of friends” | Facebook’s explanation for the rapid growth of social networking and applications associated with it is pretty simple, according to longtime Facebook executive Dan Rose. “We’re moving from the ‘wisdom of crowds’ to the ‘wisdom of friends,’ ... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Outfit7’s talking-animal apps hit 60M downloads on App Store | Angry Birds isn’t the only animal game selling like crazy on the App Store. Outfit7‘s Talking Tom Cat and other titles in the Talking Friends series have been downloaded more than 60 million times in the past six months.
Andrej Nabergoj (pi... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | DLD11: Facebook's Dan Rose Talks Platform, Ads And Mark Zuckerberg | Dan Rose, VP of Partnerships and Platform Marketing at Facebook, took the stage at DLD Conference in Munich this morning in a conversation with David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect.
After Kirkpatrick was done promoting his book ... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Security Alert: Tech Luminaries Easily Firesheeped At DLD11 | Remember Firesheep, that Firefox extension that lets users effortlessly ‘hack’ into the Twitter and Facebook accounts of anyone using a public network by capturing user cookies?
I’m currently at the DLD Conference in Munich, Germany, which ... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | DLD11: Foursquare And Groupon CEOs On Cracking The Local Commerce Nut | These are my notes from a panel on ‘Local Markets’ at the DLD Conference in Germany, which featured Groupon CEO Andrew Mason and Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley.
Q: Two very exciting startups on stage. Dennis and Andrew, what year did you sta... |
| Jan 23, 2011 | NY Times will build its digital empire on (metered) quality journalism | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The New York Times is moving forward this quarter... |
| Jan 23, 2011 | Sean Parker says he enjoyed Social Network film, but “it’s complete fiction” | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Social Network was a beautiful and well-made ... |