D9 Conference | May 31-June 2, 2011 | Rancho Palos Verdes, California

The Fate of Flash on Mobile Devices: Here’s the Adobe CEO Talking About It at D9

Kara Swisher in Mobile on November 9, 2011 at 6:05 am PT

Here’s Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen talking in June about making sure Flash worked well on non-Apple mobile devices. Have times changed?

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman Being Considered for HP CEO Job to Replace Apotheker

Kara Swisher in Enterprise on September 21, 2011 at 8:05 am PT

Would the former Internet exec star be open to running one of Silicon Valley’s most notoriously difficult companies? Sources say yes, indeedy.

There’s Some Cheese in My Tech: Jonathan Kaplan’s The Melt Opens Its Doors

Liz Gannes in Commerce on August 29, 2011 at 1:13 am PT

The first of Flip videocamera creator Jonathan Kaplan’s The Melt line of grilled cheese restaurants, first announced at this year’s D9 conference, will open in San Francisco on Tuesday.

DARPA: That’s Mach 20, Baby

Kara Swisher in News on August 10, 2011 at 6:50 am PT

The Defense Department’s secret project agency is launching an aircraft today that does 13,000 miles per hour, or 20 times the speed of sound. Sweeeet.

Viral Video: ATD CEO Jane Lynch Is NOT Ellen DeGeneres

Kara Swisher in Media on August 9, 2011 at 12:11 am PT

She is, though, hosting the Emmy Awards, which she nabbed after her stellar D9 gig.

The James Franco of the Internet — Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Square: The Full D9 Interview (Video)

Kara Swisher in D9 on July 5, 2011 at 6:43 am PT

Jack Dorsey has certainly had a multi-faceted career, from plotting bike messenger routes to inventing microblogging giant Twitter to his newest payment start-up, Square. But what he really wants to do is…

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen Is Not a Flash in the Pan: The Full D9 Interview (Video)

Kara Swisher in D9 on July 4, 2011 at 6:17 am PT

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, Flash is the name of one of the software company’s highest profile offerings and the one most under siege by fast-changing trends.

Nokia’s Stephen Elop Jumps Off Burning Platform Onto D9 Hot Seat: The Full Interview (Video)

Kara Swisher in D9 on July 3, 2011 at 6:02 am PT

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 its offerings, he’s had a lot to wrangle with.

Fanhattan, the iPad Navigator: The Full D9 Demo

Kara Swisher in D9 on July 2, 2011 at 10:06 am PT

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 site such as Netflix, Hulu Plus and iTunes.

HP’s Léo Apotheker Talks webOS, TouchPad and More: The Full D9 Interview (Video)

Kara Swisher in D9 on July 1, 2011 at 7:21 am PT

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’s been a busy man. Here’s his take, in an onstage interview with Walt Mossberg at the ninth D: All Things Digital conference.