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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Meg Whitman Tries on Her Political Dancing Shoes on the “Today” Show

Here’s a video of former eBay CEO Meg Whitman talking to Matt Lauer on the “Today” show this morning about her nascent campaign to be governor of California as the Republican candidate.

Whitman, who was a favorite of failed Presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, seems to have perfected the art of saying exactly nothing, even after Lauer asked her if she was nuts to run the “arguably ungovernable”–referencing a writer for the Sacramento Bee–California.

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Sunday, May 4, 2008

BoomTown Decodes Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer’s Letter to Yahoo (The Kiss-Off Edition)

Must we? We must!

Previously, BoomTown decoded the first mean Saturday letter, sent at the beginning of April by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang, in which Ballmer threatened to go hostile with his unsolicited takeover bid.

But this new one sent yesterday is a such a doozy that it cannot be ignored.

Thus, we wade in with really big boots.

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Monday, March 17, 2008

Arnold on Ending Global Warming

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who appeared at The Wall Street Journal’s ECO:nomics conference last Friday in Santa Barbara (about which I posted here), speaks on the state’s efforts in the environmental arena in this video:

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About Kara

Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference.

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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