Thomas Edison

Revolution CEO Steve Case at D8: AOL Could Come Back–Look What Happened to Apple

Peter Kafka in D8 on June 2, 2010 at 1:56 pm PT

Steve Case is most famous for building America Online, which became the Internet’s first mega-company, and for merging it with Time Warner, which became the worst corporate marriage in recent history. But AOL is 25 years old, and the AOL-Time Warner deal is a decade old. What has Steve Case been doing since then? Investing, in a lot of different stuff. Time to talk about old deals and new ones.

Viral Video: There Was an Old Woman Who Played With an iPad

Kara Swisher in News on April 26, 2010 at 12:15 am PT

While I meant to get this up last week, if you missed it, it is still well worth seeing 99-year-old Virginia Campbell using an iPad. To put things into perspective, in 1910, around when she was first born, the innovation of the day was Thomas Edison demonstrating the first talking motion picture. And, I can assure you, seeing this is a lot better than cats using the Apple tablet device.

The Entire D6 Interview With Intellectual Ventures' Nathan Myhrvold (2 of 3)

Kara Swisher in News on September 18, 2008 at 11:13 am PT

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Here is a video of an interview Walt Mossberg did with Nathan Myhrvold, Founder and CEO, Intellectual Ventures. In it, Mossberg wrangles with the former Microsoft CTO and research guru over his controversial company, which is assembling a large body of patents and inventions. In this post, Myhrvold talks about legendary inventor Thomas Edison and the history of patents and inventions, “invention capitalism,” the patenting of software and its abuse by tech giants, multi-touch technologies and where innovation will come from next.

Another Historic Tete-a-Tete We'd Like to See at D6

John Paczkowski in News on May 27, 2008 at 8:00 am PT

A tough act to follow, last year’s D: All Things Digital 5. How do you best, or even match, a 75-minute joint interview with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Apple CEO Steve Jobs–a history-making history lesson taught by two principal protagonists of tech’s narrative? Summon Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse from the dead to reminisce about the “War of Currents”?

Another Historic Tete-a-Tete We’d Like to See at D6