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Apple's Ping Wants Rock ‘n’ Roll, but No Sex and Drugs

Peter Kafka in Media on October 14, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

When it comes to creating profiles on its would-be social network, Apple doesn’t want music acts thinking that differently.

Ford's Social Media Guru Scott Monty: "Social Media Is the Cocaine of the Communications Industry"

Kara Swisher in News on October 15, 2009 at 2:53 pm PT

Today, BoomTown got the best quote ever from Scott Monty, when I asked him over lunch about his comparison of social media tools to an illicit drug. “Social media is the cocaine of the communications industry,” said Monty, who has been global digital and multimedia communications manager for Ford Motor Company since mid-2008. Riding that Twitter train, high on Facebook cocaine?

CEOs Gone Wild: Henry Nicholas Edition

John Paczkowski in News on June 5, 2008 at 3:19 pm PT

According to Forbes, former Broadcom Corp. chief and founder Henry Nicholas ranks 677th on the list of the world’s wealthiest individuals. But according to a federal indictment unsealed today, he’d rank quite a bit higher on a list of the world’s most debauched.