7 posts and columns on VP

Viral Video: “Game Change” (Or the Latest Sarah Palin Impersonation)

in Media on December 26, 2011 at 3:22 am PT

She’s baaaack.
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Former VP and Apple Director Al Gore on Steve Jobs and More: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

in AsiaD on November 18, 2011 at 11:53 am PT

A man who needs no introduction.
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News Byte

Mozilla Has a Brand New CEO

in News on October 14, 2010 at 11:57 am PT

Mozilla welcomed a new CEO to the fold today. Gary Kovacs, who was previously a senior VP at Sybase and General Manager at Adobe, will be responsible for leading the development and direction of the Firefox Web browser. Kovacs replaces John Lilly, who announced in May that he would be stepping down, as first reported here by BoomTown’s Kara Swisher. Kovacs’s first day will be November 8.

EU Poised to Approve Oracle-Sun Deal

in News on January 18, 2010 at 1:30 pm PT

The European Commission’s approval of Oracle’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun is imminent. Though EU regulators have until late January to make their decision, sources close to both companies tell me they expect approval this week, perhaps even as early as Wednesday or Thursday.
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Viral Video: Shatner-Palin in Ironic Autobiography Duel

in News on December 13, 2009 at 9:17 am PT

Here’s a video clip from NBC’s “The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien” Friday night, which featured a mock dramatic book-reading duel between “Star Trek” legend and “master thespian” William Shatner and former Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin. Shatner, who is well known for his jazz-backed, beat-style readings, has been mocking Palin on the television show. After his recent reading, Palin returned the favor with her own bongo-fueled interpretation of Shatner’s “Up Till Now.”
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Sarah Palin's Dead Turkey Interview

in News on November 24, 2008 at 3:13 pm PT

How much do I love the Internet? Muchety-much after seeing this interview that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave plastered all over the Web, in which the former Republican VP candidate gives a local Anchorage television station an interview as a Thanksgiving turkey is being slaughtered right behind her. Still, ever the trouper (and sanguine hunter, it seems), Palin obliviously keeps up the turkey patter, having just “pardoned” another turkey earlier. Such is fowl fate.

Can Meg Whitman Turn Around California?

in News on September 25, 2008 at 6:37 am PT

Having been passed over as the running mate on the Republican presidential ticket, former eBay Inc. chief executive Meg Whitman seems to have now set her sights on the California state capitol. Call it Meg 2.0.