5 posts and columns on decoding

BoomTown Clarifies Ron Conway's Clarification of His Super Angel Fit (Plus Bin 38 Menu!)

in News on September 26, 2010 at 5:13 pm PT

Now comes the backpedaling. Of course. Today, well-known Silicon Valley angel investor Ron Conway sent a missive to his favorite missive publisher, TechCrunch. It was a “clarification” of his earlier “leaked” email to Super Angels in which he lambasted them for a controversial dinner at Bin 38.

BoomTown Decodes Ron Conway's Super Angel Super Fit (So You Don't Have To)!

in News on September 24, 2010 at 2:57 am PT

Ah, there’s nothing like a manly hissy fit amongst a passel of white dudes in Silicon Valley to open the fall viewing season! In this latest episode of “Glee,” a group of Super Angel Cheerios plot to stop the entrepreneur kids from getting to the valuations they’ve been working so hard to inflate. Enter the Ron.

Turnabout Is Fair Play: BoomTown Decodes Rupe's Journalism-Is-Not-a-Free-Cow Op-Ed!

in News on December 14, 2009 at 9:05 am PT

Last week, BoomTown translated an opinion piece written by Google CEO Eric Schmidt and published in The Wall Street Journal that focused on defending the search giant from criticism that it was, well, killing journalism. One of the louder critics, in fact, has been Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp., who has leveled a series of high-profile verbal attacks on Google. Last week, Murdoch published his own piece in The Journal, in which Google was never mentioned by name. So in the interest of equal-opportunity balloon-pricking, I must also render Murdoch’s post through my decoding machine, because it’s only sporting!
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100 Percent Obvious: Next-Gen iPhone Due This Summer

in News on March 23, 2009 at 3:11 pm PT

Though it made no mention of a next-generation handset at its iPhone OS 3.0 preview last week, Apple is clearly hard at work on one. And if history is any guide, the company will bring it to market sometime in mid-June just as it did the iPhone 3G last year. And if history is any guide, this new iPhone will be a great improvement over its predecessor. So “100 percent confirmed” reports leaking out of AT&T claiming Cupertino is doing exactly that aren’t all that interesting.
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BoomTown Decodes Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's Memo on New Digital Guru, Qi Lu (So You Don't Have To)

in News on December 4, 2008 at 8:18 pm PT

BoomTown strives to bring readers the very best in internal memo decoding, and this one is just too good to pass up. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a short memo to employees this afternoon about finally hiring someone to head the software giant’s lackluster digital efforts. That someone is former Yahoo tech star Qi Lu. He will become president of the Online Services Group at Microsoft, right after the new year. Thus, let us try to read between the lines.