DLD

Sheryl Sandberg: Social Media Helps Drive the Global Economy

Liz Gannes in Social on January 24 at 5:20 am PT

Social media is “a really unique bright spot” in the challenged world economy, says Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.

Tumblr’s Inflection Point Came When Curators Joined Creators

Liz Gannes in Social on January 23 at 12:41 am PT

The average post on Tumblr is reblogged nine times, according to founder and CEO David Karp.

Jack Dorsey: Twitter’s Not Really Social

Liz Gannes in Social on January 22 at 8:50 am PT

Social is “just one part of what people do on Twitter,” said co-founder Jack Dorsey at the DLD conference in Munich today.

Let’s Play Word Association With Tech Moguls!

Kara Swisher in News on June 16, 2011 at 8:06 am PT

Earlier this year, I moderated a panel of tech leaders from the U.S. and Europe, at the opening of the DLD conference in Munich. To get things going, I used that old trick of word association — asking for lightning observations on Facebook, Google, Steve Jobs, Nokia, Rupert Murdoch and smartphones. Results, well, varied.

BoomTown Did Not Call Groupon's Andrew Mason a Corporate D-Bag!

Kara Swisher in News on January 31, 2011 at 6:15 am PT

Oh, to be misquoted! Last week, a lot of folks on Twitter and elsewhere thought I had called Groupon co-founder and CEO Andrew Mason a “corporate douche bag” onstage in an interview gone badly awry. While such a comment is not beyond me, the fact of the matter is that he called himself that.

News Corp.'s Daily iPad Newspaper Launching "In the Next Few Weeks"

Peter Kafka in Media on January 25, 2011 at 7:18 am PT

Which is basically what we heard last week. Still, it’s the first public quasi-launch date we’ve heard from a News Corp. official. Inside: A sneak peek at something the Daily won’t feature at launch, but will eventually.

Roll Camera! Jason Calacanis Makes a Video Push at Mahalo, and Wants You to Know About It

Peter Kafka in Media on January 25, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

But what he really wants is a billion-dollar-plus valuation, like the one that competitor Demand Media is going to get.

Voices

Is Angry Birds Bigger Than Mickey Mouse?

Ben Rooney, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 24, 2011 at 10:37 am PT

In one of those “we are bigger than Jesus” moments, Peter Vesterbacka, “Mighty Eagle” of Angry Birds maker Rovio, told the first panel of the day at DLD that Angry Birds was bigger than Mickey Mouse.

Video: Sean Parker on No Victoria's Secret Models in Silicon Valley (What?!?!)

Kara Swisher in News on January 24, 2011 at 8:57 am PT

Here is former Napster troublemaker, former Facebook consigliere and current investor, entrepreneur and movie subject Sean Parker onstage at the DLD conference in Munich, Germany, yesterday. It was vintage Parker, who always tries to paint himself as more of a geek than the multicolored life of the digital party. In truth, he is very much both.

From U.S. to Germany to China–BoomTown Goes Around the (Digital) World in a Week

Kara Swisher in News on January 21, 2011 at 5:22 pm PT

It’s a big, wide and very digital world out there and that’s why I’m headed around the globe–quite literally–for the next week to see some non-Silicon Valley tech trends and more.