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Robert Scoble Explains His Attempted Worldwide Domination of Google+ (Video)

Kara Swisher in Social on July 13, 2011 at 9:01 am PT

While at an event yesterday, I ran smack into Silicon Valley tech personality Robert Scoble, the man who never met a social network he didn’t try to hijack. So, of course, Scooby-Don’t — as I like to call him — has been one the more active users of the new offering from the search giant, which some have complained is breathtaking both in its speed and its scale of digital pollution.

Internet Advertisers Say Internet Advertising Keeps America Strong

Peter Kafka in Media on June 11, 2009 at 9:08 am PT

Did you know that Internet publishing–Internet publishing supported by advertising, that is–creates millions of jobs in this country? It’s true, says a trade group, which is trying to convince Washington that all that is at risk if people start passing pesky laws.

IBM: In Search of…New Revenue

John Paczkowski in News on March 13, 2009 at 7:09 am PT

“We will not simply ride out the storm. Rather, we will take a long-term view, and go on offense.” That was the promise IBM CEO Sam Palmisano made in his annual letter to shareholders this week detailing Big Blue’s plans to forge new markets in infrastructure services. Here we are just a few days later and the company has already set about fulfilling it. IBM announced a new water-management services effort today, one that will see it bringing its information technology acumen to bear on the systems used to monitor reservoirs, water pipes and the like.