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Full D9 Videos Coming Soon to a Tech Web Site Near You

Kara Swisher in D9 on June 8, 2011 at 12:06 pm PT

AllThingsD has gotten a lot of requests for the full interviews from the ninth D: All Things Digital conference, which took place last week. It was indeed a crackerjack series of tech and media top players on stage, as well as a handful of amazing demos (more grilled cheese please!). And, as promised, we’ll start posting them in their entirety, starting sometime next week.

Q&A: Bill Gross's UberMedia Goes for a Third Name and Strategy

Liz Gannes in Social on January 24, 2011 at 1:00 am PT

NetworkEffect talks to UberMedia, the perpetually renamed year-old start-up, about the business of buying up independent Twitter clients that compete with Twitter’s own options.

NetworkEffect on "Science Friday": Social Networking Identities

Liz Gannes in Social on January 18, 2011 at 1:03 am PT

On Friday I was a guest on “Science Friday” to talk about my experience with and observations about the proliferation of online social networking identities and options.

WSJ's D8 Special Tab: Jobs, Zuckerberg, Ballmer, Cameron and More in Their Own Words!

Kara Swisher in News on June 7, 2010 at 12:15 am PT

Today, The Wall Street Journal published its special tab, both online and offline, featuring edited transcripts of some of the interviews Walt Mossberg and I did at the eighth D: All Things Digital conference last week. The excerpts come from interviews we did with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Hollywood megadirector James Cameron, Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller and Ford CEO Alan Mulally.

AMD CEO Dirk Meyer’s Comments on Intel Settlement [Transcript]

John Paczkowski in News on November 12, 2009 at 8:35 am PT

Earlier today, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices announced a comprehensive agreement to end their outstanding legal disputes. After the jump, AMD CEO Dirk Meyer’s official remarks about the agreement.

The New York Times Explains the Ad Market: Banks Bail, and So Does Hollywood. But Big Pharma Steps Up, and “Modest” Improvement Coming

Peter Kafka in Media on October 23, 2009 at 6:59 am PT

The publisher delivered a pleasant earnings surprise yesterday by cutting costs. Now it’s hoping for a revenue bump, if advertisers will play along.

Palm Pre Commercial Keeps Mirroring the Ladies

Kara Swisher in News on July 15, 2009 at 5:05 am PT

In a recent onstage interview, Palm’s major investor, Roger McNamee, and I got into a minor tussle over the mirror on the back of the just-launched Pre smartphone and his assertion that ladies in particular would love it. Take that, reflectively-challenged Apple iPhone! In any case, Palm is certainly not backing away from the female demographic with its latest commercial, which features an unusually pale woman with a sing-song and vaguely creepy voice. It feels a lot like an ad for a new shampoo that promises lustrous locks. All the better to look good in a mirror, presumably.

Google Co-Founder Larry Page’s Advice to the Class of 2009: “Be More Lazy!”

Peter Kafka in Media on May 19, 2009 at 8:39 am PT

It’s back-to-school time for Google’s executive team, which is fanning out across college campuses to impart words of wisdom to the classes of 2009. Via Google’s YouTube, here are clips of co-founder Larry Page, CEO Eric Schmidt (twice!) and search boss Marissa Mayer. And some bonus advice, circa 1967.

The Limits of Steve Jobs’s Power: Even the Apple CEO Can’t Make Options Interesting

Peter Kafka in Media on April 23, 2009 at 5:06 am PT

Congrats to the folks at Forbes for a journalistic coup: They’re the first media people to get their hands on sworn testimony Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave last year in a civil lawsuit. It is, as Forbes notes, “a rare look at Jobs in his own words.” Alas, Jobs in his own words, when he’s talking about options backdating, is just like anyone else: a snooze.