10 posts and columns on Alan Murray

She’s Baaaack: Carol Bartz Opines at WSJ Women’s Conference

in News on May 1 at 9:43 pm PT

AllThingsD officially misses the former and fired Yahoo CEO.
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The Big Interview with Sir Martin Sorrell

in News on August 6, 2010 at 8:32 am PT

In an interview with WSJ’s Alan Murray, WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell conceded that advertisers must do better to inform customers about the tracking and mapping of online behavior.

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First Amendment Guru Floyd Abrams on the WikiLeaks Situation

in News on July 28, 2010 at 2:05 pm PT

On Monday morning, we did some looking into the legal issues surrounding WikiLeaks’ decision to unveil some 92,000 previously classified documents on the public, in connection with a handful of media outlets. The bottom line, some First Amendment experts informed us: the government certainly had the right to go after and punish the person within the military who leaked the information.

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Adobe and Apple CEOs Square Off

in News on April 30, 2010 at 12:50 pm PT

Yesterday, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen sat down with Alan Murray and fired back at Steve Jobs in the latest round of the increasingly vocal Flash fight between the two companies. Video after the jump.

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Adobe CEO on Steve Jobs' "Thought on Flash"

in News on April 29, 2010 at 11:59 am PT

Earlier on Thursday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs published an essay in which he took Adobe to task over its Flash software, which Apple does not support on its mobile products, such as the iPhone and iPad. After the jump, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen discusses the essay in an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Allan Murray.

Who’s Going to Make Your News? And Who’s Going to Pay Them?

in Media on February 16, 2010 at 7:00 am PT

Who’s going to bring you your news in a couple of years: The likes of the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal? Or someone whose tweets have been picked up by Google News? All of the above, likely. If you want to see this question get hashed out at length, check out this video, which features reps from the Times, the Journal, Google and AOL back-and-forthing for an hour-plus.

Google: We’re Hiring, and Spending, Again

in Media on October 7, 2009 at 10:55 am PT

Google CEO Eric Schmidt used the opening moments of a New York City press conference to reinforce a message he’s been delivering for several weeks: The worst is over, things are looking up, and Google is spending accordingly.
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Weekend Update, 4.11.09

in Social on April 11, 2009 at 2:22 pm PT

Welcome back to Weekend Update, where we showcase some of the highlights from this site over the past week. In the umpteenth round of the old versus new media match, the Associated Press in its annual meeting this week played into the stereotype of the grizzled no-nonsense editor who shakes his fist at the new interweb thing (or was it intertube?) and its feisty friend, Google News, who are running amok on his lawn.

Wall Street Journal Promises New Pay Sites, Someday

in Media on April 8, 2009 at 9:52 am PT

My colleagues over at The Wall Street Journal have been able to convince more than a million people to pay for full access to the paper’s Web site. Can it find even more people who are willing to pay for even more online stuff? We may find out: WSJ.com is contemplating what sounds an awful lot like trade newsletters.
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Kara Visits ECO:nomics

in News on March 17, 2008 at 1:50 am PT

Last week, I was in Santa Barbara at the Bacara Resort for The Wall Street Journal’s ECO:nomics: Creating Environmental Capital conference, which described itself as a “CEO-level view of the rapidly developing relationship between the environment and the bottom line.” Topics that were delved into via interviews were wide-ranging: “Sales Job: Will Consumers Spend to [...]