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Seven Questions for Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers

in News on February 9 at 1:50 pm PT

In an AllThingsD interview, Cisco Systems’ CEO talks about the company’s turnaround, the hurdles ahead and how badly he wants to bring his company’s cash home.
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Naughty and Not-So-Nice: Like "Gossip Girl," BoomTown's Tech Ticker Predictions for 2009 and More!

in News on December 29, 2008 at 12:06 am PT

BoomTown is back in the blogosphere from a freezing and nondigital week on the east coast with the family. Given I am still in Buffalo until Wednesday, still chilling (and not in a good way), let’s start the proceedings slowly, with some videos I did with the ebullient Sarah Lacy for Yahoo’s Tech Ticker site right before the holidays at the All Things Digital HQ (i.e., the cozy cottage behind my house) about what’s up for 2009 in tech.

Reports of Yahoogle's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

in News on October 21, 2008 at 2:07 pm PT

Today, The Deal got played, and claimed that Yahoo and Google were likely to abandon their controversial search ad outsourcing deal. Wrote The Deal’s Cecile Kohrs: “A proposed joint venture between rival Internet companies Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. appears headed for the trash bin, just ahead of an expected U.S. Department of Justice challenge to the agreement, lawyers close to the deal said.” Well, maybe it will die at some point. But, in the words of Juba in the last line of the greatest movie ever (“Gladiator,” of course!): Not yet.