Voices
Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 31, 2011 at 11:59 pm PT
Can the Internet help balance the budget?
Amid the conflict in Washington over how to reduce the deficit, two heavyweight computer scientists in the Bay Area have launched a website that aims to find politically palatable solutions, in part by giving ordinary citizens a voice on the matter.
Kara Swisher in Media on August 2, 2011 at 12:56 am PT
Despite all politicians’ efforts to make us hate Washington, D.C, this week, here is another, lovelier, look at the place.
Kara Swisher in News on July 31, 2011 at 12:48 pm PT
You would think the settlement of a major dispute would goose the stock of a company, but Yahoo’s deal with its Chinese partner Alibaba Group on Friday did exactly the opposite.
Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 1:10 pm PT
BoomTown scrambled the
All Things Digital jet (aka, United Airlines, Seat 7A) late last night to get up to Microsoft’s big event for its online advertising clients today.
Called “Imagine 2011: Marketing Leadership Summit” and held at its Redmond, Wa. HQ, the two-day event is designed to wow peeps by trotting out a spate of
strategery concepts those who buy advertising on Microsoft’s various digital offerings from its Bing search service to MSN to Xbox to Windows Phone 7.
Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 9:43 am PT
Timing is everything and, sometimes, very awkward.
Today at its Redmond, Wash., campus, Microsoft is hosting a splashy online “marketing leadership summit” titled “Imagine 2011″–a gathering of top marketing execs from across the globe, most of whom are advertising clients of its online division.
Also today: Its longtime head of global marketing, Mich Mathews, announced her departure–to the surprise of many Microsoft execs here, in fact–via a report in Ad Age.
John Paczkowski in News on February 15, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
Company-subsidized tablets may outnumber their employee-owned counterparts sooner than expected.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 9, 2011 at 6:01 pm PT
Dell’s Streak 7 is the least expensive tablet from a major manufacturer and claims to be the first capable of 4G cellular speeds, but the compromises made to get the price down make it impossible to recommend.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 31, 2010 at 10:38 am PT
2010 was a good year for IT growth and will be a tough one to follow, Gleacher analyst Brian Marshall says.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 3, 2010 at 9:38 am PT
Here’s Apple’s most recent offer, which publishers still don’t want. Maybe Google can help….
