6 posts and columns on Liberty Global

Does Rupert Murdoch Have Kindle Envy? News Corp. Mulls an E-Book Reader Investment.

in Media on April 2, 2009 at 4:38 pm PT

Here’s yet another fan of the Kindle, Amazon’s much-hyped e-book reader: News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, who likes the device enough that he’s considering investing in a Kindle rival.
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BoomTown Visits the Digital Dutch, Part 2

in News on September 29, 2008 at 12:38 pm PT

Here’s the second of two videos I did while in Amsterdam for the PICNIC conference last week. More biking along the lovely canals of this Dutch city, along with even more odd digital stuff at the conference, as well as appearances by Liberty Global’s Mike Fries, Nike TechLab’s Michael Tchao and former Microsoftie Linda Stone.

Kara Visits PICNIC in Amsterdam (and Hopes Head Does Not Explode)

in News on September 23, 2008 at 8:08 pm PT

BoomTown is now right next to a canal–no falling cows in sight!–in Amsterdam, here for an unusual digital conference called PICNIC, which starts Wednesday and runs through Friday. With sessions like “We Think: The Power of Mass Creativity,” “The Emerging Real-Time Social Web” and “The Future of Business Creation,” it seems to be a place for big, messy Web ideas. But I am a little worried about keeping my head intact.

Do Walk Away, Sergey (and Google) From the Yahoo Deal

in News on September 10, 2008 at 3:58 pm PT

Today comes news that jumping-on-prone California Attorney General Jerry Brown is thinking of climbing onto the federal government bandwagon heading right for the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., to stop the search giant’s online ad deal with Yahoo. Brown joins big advertisers, newspapers and whatever mudslingers Microsoft can gather (and, let it be said, Microsoft can sling a lot of slimy mud). While Google would by no means control a lot of Yahoo’s search ads, the fact that the pair together have an 80 percent share of the search market apparently frightens ordinary mortals. Maybe it should.

O3b. That's Short for (An)other 3 Billion Google Users

in News on September 10, 2008 at 11:26 am PT

Google services are near-ubiquitous in mature markets, but in emerging ones? Not so much. That will soon change, however, thanks to an ambitious plan to bring affordable Internet access to some three billion people in Africa and other emerging markets.

O3b. That’s Short for (An)other 3 Billion Google Users

in News on September 10, 2008 at 11:26 am PT

Google services are near-ubiquitous in mature markets, but in emerging ones? Not so much. That will soon change, however, thanks to an ambitious plan to bring affordable Internet access to some three billion people in Africa and other emerging markets.