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Kara Visits CES: Jerry Yang Emails It In
How glad BoomTown was to finally see Jerry Yang up close and personal, after our valiant but futile efforts to get near the Yahoo co-founder and CEO in 2007. No, we’re not stalking him in a...
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Kara Visits DLD in Germany
I am now at the DLD conference in Munich, which is put on by Hubert Burda Media, a gathering that has become one of Europe’s most interesting in recent years. The three-day DLD–which stands for...
View ArticleKara Visits DLD in Germany: The Naomi Campbell Edition
Why was supermodel Naomi Campbell suddenly standing right next to German publisher Hubert Burda at the final lunch for his company’s DLD–Digital, Life, Design–conference in Munich yesterday? I have no...
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Google Buzz Makes Gmail Less Socially Awkward
Can a microblogging twist on Gmail raise Google’s profile in social networking? We’ll soon find out. At an event at company headquarters today, Google announced Google Buzz, a new Twitteresque status...
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The Landscape Around Google's Hiring Binge
After a year or two of stagnancy, the Google employee count is growing rapidly again. But the growth spurt and retention efforts seem forced, and unlikely to be the perfect formula to keep the company...
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How Google Killed GDrive and Spiked Its Skype Acquisition
This weekend I spent some time reading Steven Levy’s “In the Plex,” an account of the history of Google based on Levy’s deep embedding within the company (see Kara’s video interview with Levy from last...
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Google Execs Explain Why They Launched Google+ Now, Before It's Ready
Google this morning press-launched a set of in-progress social products that people have been waiting to see for a long time. But most people are only getting the opportunity submit their email...
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Google+ Exec Is Now Really Plus One
Usually, I don’t fall for this kind of stuff, but the posting on Google+ by one of the key execs involved in its recent launch, Bradley Horowitz, is too adorkable to resist. In a post tonight, he...
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Google+'s Horowitz Talks About Joining Board of Wordnik, as Online Dictionary...
Google+ kingpin Bradley Horowitz has joined the board of Wordnik, which has also just raised another round of funding of $8 million. It’s the first board seat ever for Horowitz, who has been a bit...
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More AsiaD Speakers: Sony, Google+, Microsoft, Hollywood, Huawei and Hot SV...
After our grand tour of Asia last week — with stops in Korea and Japan — it seems like a perfect time to update the speaker list for our upcoming AsiaD conference in Hong Kong in October. As Walt...
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How Google+ Games Undercuts Both Facebook and Apple
Google’s move into videogames today should scare both Facebook and Apple, the two leading next-generation game platforms. In particular, what should be frightening is that Google is attempting to break...
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Even More AsiaD Speakers: Yahoo's Yang, HTC's Wang, Samsung's Hong and More!
With AsiaD just a little over a month away, Walt Mossberg and I are adding even more speakers to the list, for what we hope will be an awesome event in Hong Kong. Taking place from Oct. 19 to 21, the...
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Final AsiaD Speakers: Apple's Phil Schiller and Former VP Al Gore
And then there was Schiller and Gore. That would be Apple’s SVP of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller and former Vice President Al Gore, who round out the stellar list of speakers at our...
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"We Are Absolutely in a Feature Race," Says Bradley Horowitz of Google+
As Facebook changes to become more about personal expression and oversharing, and Twitter maintains it will stay simple rather than get caught up in a feature race, how will Google+ respond? Google+ VP...
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Four-Month-Old Google+ Has 40M Users
Google announced today as part of its quarterly earnings that the four-month-old social network Google+ has 40 million registered users, up from 10 million users two weeks after launch and slightly...
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Google Will Finally Shut Down Google Buzz
Google will finally shut down Google Buzz, its non-starter Gmail-based social network that paved the way for the more promising Google+. “We learned a lot from products like Buzz, and are putting that...
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The Globalization of D: All Things Digital Begins Now
And so our international expansion of D: All Thing Digital starts and we could not be more proud that it begins here in Hong Kong, with AsiaD. So why Asia? It seemed the most obvious choice for us, as...
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Google+ Guru Bradley Horowitz on Products, Platforms and That Pesky Memo
While Google has struggled mightily in its early efforts to “get the social thing,” it has managed to get more than a few people to try out its latest effort, Google+. But the question of just how...
View ArticleBradley Horowitz: Highlights From AsiaD (Video)
Google+ project manager Bradley Horowitz joined Peter Kafka on the AsiaD stage today to talk about Larry Page’s leadership, privacy and the lessons Google has learned. [ See post to watch video ]
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Google+ Adds Pages for Brands and Businesses -- And Will Feature Them in Search
Google+ today launches a much-anticipated feature for brands, companies and other organizations to create accounts. The new Google+ Pages are for anything “non-human,” as Google VP Product Bradley...
View ArticleGoogle+'s Bradley Horowitz Talks Facebook, Social Networking and That Memo:...
We are now posting the full videos from the recent AsiaD conference, which took place in Hong Kong in October. Over the next week or so, we’re going to follow the schedule of the actual event. Up now:...
View ArticleGoogle Confirms Kevin Rose and Some of Milk Team Will Join
Google today confirmed the news we brought you yesterday: Kevin Rose and some of the team from his mobile app incubator Milk will be joining the company. The word came in two Google+ posts by Bradley...
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