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Warren Buffett at Fortune Women's Conference: On the Economy and George Clooney

Kara Swisher in News on September 15, 2009 at 12:01 pm PT

Folksy set was on the highest burner possible at Fortune magazine’s Most Powerful Women’s conference this morning, as legendary financial investor Warren Buffett took to the stage. Buffett, who was interviewed by Fortune’s terrific Carol Loomis onstage in Carlsbad, Calif., held forth to the crowd–made up mostly of women–having instructed Loomis previously to “do anything with me…I like your crowd.”

Yahoo's Bartz (No. 8), Facebook's Sandberg (No. 22), Google's Mayer (No. 44) and More Techies Make Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women List

Kara Swisher in News on September 11, 2009 at 12:15 am PT

Time Inc.’s Fortune magazine–which never met a list it did not like to make–had a solid group of women tech types on its “50 Most Powerful Women 2009” roster, the annual survey that it posted yesterday. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz made the Top Ten this year, clocking in at No. 8, along with a lot of other tech-savvy women in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.

Coming to a Web Site Near You (This One): The Entire D7 Interview and Demo Sessions

Kara Swisher in D7 on June 8, 2009 at 11:22 am PT

Tomorrow, just two weeks after it took place, All Things Digital will start posting the full sessions of the recent seventh D: All Things Digital conference. We could not accommodate everyone who wanted to come in person, so you have already lost the opportunity to annoy major tech and media moguls and my mother all in one place (although Mission Accomplished! for BoomTown), but will be able to see all the content onstage here, in its entirety, on ATD, in the exact order we put on the show at the conference. As a primer, here’s News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and singer Jill Sobule opening the show.

In Case You Missed It, Here's the Print Version of D7, Um, Online!

Kara Swisher in News on June 3, 2009 at 2:53 am PT

Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal did a special Technology Report section, made up of excerpts of selected interviews from the seventh D: All Things Digital conference, including Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer ringing in Bing and Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz looking for the primo opportunity to curse at BoomTown. Here are the online links to the transcripts, as well as video highlights. We’ll be posting the full video of all the sessions on this site soon.

Bartz's (S)mash Note to Ballmer: The Photographic Proof

Kara Swisher in News on May 29, 2009 at 3:07 pm PT

If a search and advertising partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft is ever struck, perhaps a little CEO-to-CEO note-passing should get some credit. Yesterday, we wrote about the purple Post-It that Bartz passed to Ballmer via the makeup person in the D: All Things Digital Green Room. Here’s the photographic proof!

Bartz and Ballmer Meet One-on-One Again at D7

Kara Swisher in News on May 28, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had yet another one-on-one meeting yesterday evening at the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, Calif., said several sources, in ongoing discussions about a search and advertising partnership. In addition, top deal execs from both Yahoo and Microsoft continued their talks, including Yahoo U.S. head Hilary Schneider and top Microsoft digital exec Yusuf Mehdi.

D-Day: In the Seventh Year, We Didn't Rest (Mostly Because of Meetings)

Kara Swisher in News on May 26, 2009 at 12:07 am PT

We launch the seventh D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, Calif., today, after a long weekend of preparations and way too many meetings, as you can see in the video below. (Including packing the mountain of swag bags for attendees, upon which one of my kids sits in this photo.) The conference kicks off with an evening interview tonight with Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams.

Off to D7: The More Things Change, the More They, Well, Are A-Changin'

Kara Swisher in News on May 21, 2009 at 12:01 am PT

BoomTown will be driving the minivan–packed with my assistant Ed, my mom, two mannequins (don’t ask), a coffee machine and lots of coffee and some very nice outfits–down to the seventh D: All Things Digital conference today, so don’t expect much in the way of posts from me. Thus, I hope Twitter doesn’t sell to [fill in the blank], Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer don’t agree to agree (until they are on the D stage next week) and Facebook’s valuation doesn’t ricochet up and down the blog-hyped scale once again. But the rest of the well-oiled All Things Digital machine will be in full force covering tech and media news, even as we gear up for the big event next week, which will feature pretty much all the major players in the digital space.

The Making of D6: Part Two

Kara Swisher in News on May 27, 2008 at 1:36 am PT

Here’s my annual video, second of two, of the behind-the-scenes preparations for the sixth D: All Things Digital conference. It starts tonight in Carlsbad, Calif., with an interview with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer by Walt Mossberg and me.

The Making of D6: Part One

Kara Swisher in News on May 27, 2008 at 1:25 am PT

Here’s my annual video, first of two, of the behind-the-scenes preparations for the sixth D: All Things Digital conference. It all starts tonight in Carlsbad, Calif., with an interview with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer by Walt Mossberg and me.