While at the Sundance Film Festival, I took a little tour of Park City, Utah, visiting with Chris DeWolfe and Dani Dudeck of MySpace and Sundance’s digital guru Ian Calderon and trudging up Main Street with my celebrity tour guide, Jane Lynch (who is about as hysterical as you get in “Best in Show” and [...]
OK, I am definitely not Princess Grace-worthy (well, who is?). But I am headed right now to her glam neck of the woods for the Monaco Media Forum, which is set to take place from tomorrow through Saturday in Monte Carlo. Hosted by HSH Prince Albert II, its subhead this year is “Leadership for the Digital Revolution,” and the group gathered is pretty heady and packed with American Webheads, as well as from around the globe.
Did I wangle a seat right next to soon-to-be Dow Jones owner Rupert Murdoch last night at the Web 2.0 Summit dinner?
Of course I did, continuing in the shameless BoomTown tradition of trying to get gratis meals with moguls (like our ongoing efforts to raise money for DonorsChoose.org and get a free lunch with Yahoo [...]
For those making plans for next week on this lovely Friday, here’s a few things to look forward to in BoomTown, including a visit by our new Big Boss Rupert Murdoch of News Corp. to San Francisco.
(And should we take it personally that he still hasn’t called to ask to inspect AllThingsD HQ–also known as the ramshackle cottage behind my house–when he is here?)
Do you need me to draw you the bright straight line from Skype to Facebook or can you see it all by yourself?
Ok, for those who refuse to live in a little place I like to call reality, let’s review the news coming out of eBay yesterday regarding their 2005 acquisition of Skype for the then unheard of price of $2.6 billion.
The Internet auction giant declared the purchase of the once hot online telephone startup a dud Monday, taking an asset-impairment charge of $1.43 billion for the deal.
In addition, Skype founder and CEO Niklas Zennström was out. The move, said eBay in a filing, represented “updated long-term financial outlook for Skype.”
Quickie translation: Major buyer’s remorse.
Our very own Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski–he of the arched eyebrow–did such a good job live-blogging our own fifth D: All Things Digital conference this year that we thought we would step up our game and send him out and about more often.
First stop, Apple’s special event today, starting at 10 a.m. PDT, at [...]
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