226 posts and columns on Barack Obama

The State of the Union Gets Live-Tweeted

in Social on January 24 at 11:20 pm PT

Live-tweeting isn’t just for journalists and sports fans anymore — it’s for Rick Santorum, Buddy Roemer and, best of all, Chad Ochocinco.
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News Byte

Steve Jobs’s Widow Will Join First Lady at State of the Union

in News on January 24 at 12:05 pm PT

Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and longtime community and education activist, will be among the symbolically significant handful of people seated with First Lady Michelle Obama during the president’s State of the Union speech tonight. Also in the First Lady’s box, presumably to illustrate the benefits of immigrant entrepreneurs, will be Brazilian-born Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram, and Dr. Hiroyuki Fujita, founder and CEO of Quality Electrodynamics in Cleveland, Ohio.

Obama Administration Promises to Answer Quora Users’ State of the Union Questions

in Social on January 24 at 3:54 am PT

The intelligent discussion site Quora has gotten a nod from the Obama administration on the eve of the annual U.S. State of the Union address.
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News Byte

Obama to Take Live Questions on Google+ Hangout Next Week

in Social on January 23 at 8:07 am PT

U.S. President Barack Obama will participate in an interview with YouTube users on Jan. 30, as he has done before. What’s different is that some of those questions will be asked live, via a Google+ Hangout. Would-be interviewers (who might be live, but will surely be tightly scripted) can submit questions via YouTube.

Zynga Confirms It Is Seeking Partners for Online Gambling Initiatives

in Commerce on January 20 at 6:00 am PT

Operating the largest poker game on Facebook is not enough — Zynga has confirmed that it is exploring the prospects for real-money gambling, and is in active talks with several partners.
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News Byte

Online Travel Agencies Pounce on Obama’s Plan to Encourage Tourism

in Commerce on January 19 at 2:16 pm PT

President Obama outlined a plan today that would encourage more tourists to visit the U.S. — an announcement welcomed by online travel agencies. The plan includes deploying more consuls, reducing visa-processing times and revising the list of countries whose citizens don’t need visas.

Former CIO of the United States Vivek Kundra Joins Salesforce.com

in News on January 16 at 9:42 am PT

The cloud-evangelizing former U.S. CIO takes a job running emerging markets for Salesforce.com.
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Americans Vote One T-Shirt and Bumper Sticker at a Time — And Here Are the Early Results

in Commerce on January 15 at 2:39 pm PT

The sale and creation of bumper stickers, t-shirts, mugs and other political gear may be a better indication of which candidates Americans like than some of the primaries.
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Obama: Don’t Worry Internet, I Got Your Back on That SOPA Thing

in News on January 14 at 4:00 pm PT

The White House signals that it doesn’t like the controversial SOPA bill. Here’s one writer who’s not the least bit surprised.
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Tech Leaders Make Forbes’ Most Powerful People List

in Enterprise on November 5, 2011 at 11:21 am PT

Forbes has compiled a list of the 70 most powerful individuals, and along with some of the world’s leading politicians and religious leaders, tech leaders made a strong showing.
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Fujitsu Beefs Up Its Best Supercomputer

in Enterprise, November 2, 2011 at 3:53 pm PT

Obama Starts a Tumblr

in Social, October 24, 2011 at 1:25 pm PT

Next Stop on Obama’s Social Network Town Hall Tour: LinkedIn

Barack Obama and the Mother of All #FollowFridays

in Social, July 29, 2011 at 11:14 am PT

Harry Reid’s Plan to Save America From Default Using Wireless Spectrum

in News, July 29, 2011 at 7:45 am PT

Twitter Gives Obama Town Hall a Real-Time Flavor

in Social, July 6, 2011 at 4:37 pm PT

Fox Says Hackers Hit Twitter Feed

in News, July 4, 2011 at 10:23 pm PT

Obama Will Hold Twitter Town Hall

Four Years Later, Obama Will Start Tweeting Himself

in Social, June 17, 2011 at 5:26 pm PT

Federal CIO Kundra Decamps for Greener Pastures of Harvard

in News, June 16, 2011 at 12:59 pm PT

The Bin Laden Raid Was Live-Tweeted (Unknowingly)

in Social, May 1, 2011 at 11:20 pm PT

Tweeting Osama bin Laden's Death Announcement

in Social, May 1, 2011 at 9:11 pm PT

Yet Another Blogger Weighs In On Barack Obama's Birth Certificate–The White House

Stumping for Likes: Obama's Facebook Town Hall

in Social, April 20, 2011 at 1:41 pm PT

Facebook Scores Obama Town Hall