28 posts and columns on Brad Stone

Larry Page’s Soul

Our soul is the same.

– Larry Page to Businessweek’s Brad Stone, on his belief that Google hasn’t really changed since it made its motto “Don’t be evil”

Fortune Gives Facebook the Apple Treatment

in Media on March 1 at 5:40 am PT

Fortune is so proud of its new Mark Zuckerberg story that it’s making it hard to read.
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Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Wants to Hire As Few People As Necessary, and Isn't So Sure About China

in Social on May 11, 2011 at 10:35 pm PT

Bloomberg Businessweek just posted Brad Stone’s lengthy cover story about Facebook’s No. 2 exec Sheryl Sandberg and her highly effective soft power.

Pulse iPad App Gets Steve Jobs's Praise in Morning…Then Booted From App Store Hours Later After NYT Complains

in News on June 8, 2010 at 12:53 am PT

Yesterday morning, the pair of Stanford University graduate students who made the hot news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, were ecstatic to be mentioned first–for being among the most promising developers for the new tablet device–by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in his keynote address to the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. But by afternoon, that flush of entrepreneurial success had turned sour, when Apple informed the two that Pulse was being pulled from the App Store after it received a written notice from the New York Times Company declaring that “The New York Times Company believes your application named ‘Pulse News Reader’ infringes The New York Times Company’s rights.” Pulse was down completely by 6:30 pm PT last night.

Scenes From the Apple iPad Day: Is It a Thneed or an iPod XL?

in News on January 28, 2010 at 7:25 am PT

BoomTown captured some bits and pieces of tasty video as I attended the Apple rollout of its newest device, the iPad, yesterday. There are shots of the action in San Francisco outside and inside the launch hall and demo area, as well as interviews with the folks gathered–some of whom liked the iPad and some of whom were dubious.

Volpi and Index Ventures Out of Skype Deal, the Lawsuit-Happy Founder Twins In

in News on November 3, 2009 at 6:58 pm PT

According to sources close to the situation, Index Ventures and Michelangelo Volpi are out of the deal to buy Skype–and their lawsuit-loving nemeses, the founders of the Internet telephony service, are in. More details to come, but it’s sure proof that the legal system, such as it was used, works.
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Monday Morning Quarterback: The Poor Little Rich (and, in Mitt Romney's Case, Humorless) Boy Edition

in News on August 6, 2007 at 12:07 am PT

In a front page article Sunday, New York Times writer Gary Rivlin drags out that old Silicon Valley chestnut about how hard it to is be just a plain old millionaire when everyone else around you has all those hundreds of millions and–worse!–billions.