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Liveblogging Fortune Brainstorm Tech: Disney CEO Bob Iger Has "One Hand in the Present and One Hand in the Future"

Kara Swisher in News on July 22, 2009 at 4:55 pm PT

Bob Iger, CEO of the Walt Disney Company, is the kickoff interview onstage at Fortune magazine’s Brainstorm Tech conference, which is taking place over the next three days in Pasadena, Calif. The event is packed full of Web and media luminaries. So, BoomTown will be sitting in the front row and liveblogging some of the sessions here, including this one, titled, “Digital Kingdom: New Business Models for a Media Giant.” Translation: When you Twitter upon a star, makes a–big–difference what you earn. Which, right now, is not a whole lot, as Iger and others in the media business know all too well.

David Geffen Wants a Chunk of the New York Times. But What Does Google Want?

Peter Kafka in Media on May 11, 2009 at 5:03 pm PT

David Geffen, who had previously tried to buy the Los Angeles Times, has been trying to buy a chunk of the New York Times. It’s not clear why. Also unclear: Why Google would have “looked seriously” at the opportunity to buy the Times in the last few weeks, as Fortune says it has.