Steve Jobs: Launch of the “new creation”

Just another press conference? Not when Steve Jobs is involved…love him or hate him…he knows how to put on a show. But besides the show what will we learn and what will we see?
from The Wall Street Journal
JANUARY 26, 2010
Apple Seeks to Avoid Past Tablet Flops
 
BY YUKARI IWATANI KANE AND DON CLARK
A keyboardless computer that [...]

Will people pay for content online?

Interesting Debate from McKinsey & Company “What Matters” featuring Clay Sharkey and Steve Brill
Clay Shirky is an associate new-media professor in the graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. His writings on Internet technology have been published in the Wall Street Journal and Wired, among others. He is the author of Here Comes Everybody: [...]

Limor Schafman: DigIn Radio today “The Nexus of Technology, People and Business”

Join our friend Limor Schafman on her program DigIn! Radio this afternoon. Today’s show features Communications Analyst Gary Arlen on WSJ’s D Conference “The Nexus of Technology, People and Business” Today at 4pm

Danny Meyer: The Future of the Restaurant Business

If you’ve been attending our events or have been reading our weekly newsletter you know that we have formed an alliance with Danny Meyer, CEO of The Union Square Hospitality Group, on a series of breakfast events. The first one, on June 25th, will feature Danny himself in an event we are calling “Breakfast with [...]

Cablevision going private…again?

BETHPAGE, N.Y. — Charles Dolan, chairman of Cablevision Systems Corp., said Thursday that his family isn’t considering another attempt at taking the cable-and-entertainment conglomerate private after its previous offer was rejected by shareholders in 2007.

Opening up Facebook to 3rd party developers?

Facebook Inc. is expected to announce significant plans to open up core parts of its site — namely the information that appears in the stream of updates on users’ homepages and profiles — to third-party developers so that they can build new services on top of it, people familiar with the matter say.

Robert Raciti to appear on WSJ Insight Exchange Panel on March 12th

I am pleased to announce that our good friend, NY:MIEG advisor and charter FOBS, Robert Raciti will be part of an exciting panel next week hosted by the Wall Street Journal as part of their “Insight Exchange” a business owners breakfast series.
On March 12th, Journal Editor, Wendy Bounds, will host a panel of some of [...]

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer Bubble-Pops at Democratic Policy Confab

I’m a huge fan of Kara Swisher, a technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal and an author and commentator on the Internet. She posted this article on Friday Feb 6th
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made an appearance at the three-day U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Caucus Retreat today to talk about innovation and, let’s be [...]