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15 posts and columns on Munich
New Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro Hints at the Future of the Web Portal (Pro Tip: Get Personal!)
A bit of insight from Yahoo’s new ops man, in a very general way.
Alec Ross, America’s Digital Diplomat, on 21st Century Statecraft
The innovation adviser to Secretary of State Clinton talks about some of the tech he’s worked on to better serve the developing world.
Jack Dorsey: Twitter’s Not Really Social
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!
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!
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.
Video: Sean Parker on No Victoria's Secret Models in Silicon Valley (What?!?!)
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
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.
At Least Andrew Mason's Goat Rodeo of Groupon Investors Will Be Fun to Watch!
With a ridiculously large investor group and an even larger pile of expectations now, how will Groupon manage its funding success going forward? Whatever happens, the social buying service’s gathering of many of the digital arena’s most prominent VC firms, institutional investors and angels could be one of the digital sectors most interesting sideshows.
QOTD: Prost!
“I recently read in the news that you lost a very special phone at a German beer bar in California. We all know how frustrating it can be to lose personal belongings, especially when it is such a unique item.
At Lufthansa we also noted with great interest your passion for German beer and culture….Therefore we would love to offer you complimentary Business Class transportation to Munich, where you can literally pick up where you last left off.”
– Lufthansa spins a bit of clever PR from this week’s iPhone prototype debacle.
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Solar: Street Feeling Upbeat After Intersolar Conference
It’s a nice day for the solar sector, which is getting a boost from a flurry of analyst comments following the recently completed Intersolar trade show in Munich. “By the end of Intersolar, we sensed growing, albeit cautious optimism,” Cowen’s Robert Stone writes in a research note this morning.
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