7 posts and columns on United Nations

Here's an Unlike.ly Tale: Gadhafi Does Swimming.ly on the Internet

in News on April 8, 2011 at 8:40 am PT

Where have the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the U.S. Air Force directed Twitter followers to learn more about military action in Libya? To an Internet domain controlled by the regime of Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

Txteagle Has 2.1 Billion Phone Numbers and $8.5 Million Dollars

in Social on April 5, 2011 at 12:28 am PT

Txteagle, which conducts surveys via text message in emerging markets, has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding from Spark Capital and seed investors RBC Venture Partners, Flywheel Ventures, and Qualcomm Ventures.

Google Is No. 1 on List Of Desired Employers

in News on March 21, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

One in four young professionals wants to work at Google Inc., according to a survey by Universum, a consulting firm that helps companies improve their attractiveness to prospective employees.

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A Totally Metal Town Hall

in News on February 22, 2011 at 1:58 pm PT

And they said rap metal was dead. Today at 3 PST, Southern California band Linkin Park will join U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon for a live Town Hall event on Facebook designed to update and engage people around the ongoing rebuilding efforts in Haiti. Linkin Park has a charity, called Download to Donate, that benefits five organizations working in Haiti.

Kara Visits Twitter's San FranTwittCo HQ!

in News on April 14, 2009 at 12:31 am PT

Maybe you’ve heard of Twitter? Fooled you! Just testing to see if you’re paying complete attention to the relentless media attention on the Silicon Valley start-up of the moment! Well, BoomTown is too, and that’s why I fired up the MINI and motored top-down on over to Twitter’s San Francisco HQ yesterday to get myself a tour of the place by none other than co-founder No-Biz-Like-No-Biz Stone. Here’s the video.
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The Don't-Worry-Jack Yahoogle Argument (BoomTown Is Still Not Reassured)

in News on September 24, 2008 at 12:30 am PT

With more critics piling onto the just-say-no-to-Yahoogle bandwagon–questioning the controversial ad deal for Yahoo to outsource some of its search ads to Google–sources said some top Google execs are now hightailing it to Washington, D.C., to smooth over any regulatory feathers the company might have ruffled with its aggressive, damn-the-torpedoes approach to pushing the deal forward. Meanwhile, Yahoo creates a don’t-worry-jack digital ad council. So why is BoomTown still worried?

Yahoo + Icahn = Shareholders Lose Again or Microsoft Ad Deal?

in News on July 21, 2008 at 12:39 pm PT

Okay, a show of hands of those who don’t want to hear another word about how incompetent the other side is in the now-settled proxy fight between activist investor Carl Icahn and Yahoo. Icahn, whom Yahoo insisted last week was unfit to even turn on a computer, now appears to be perfectly capable of leading the troubled Internet company as a board member, along with two cronies of his choosing (with Yahoo’s consent). What’s not clear–except for removing uncertainty and noise–is exactly what this means for shareholders or how it gets Yahoo back on track or even how a possible deal with Microsoft is now struck.