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Viral Video: Shrieking Monkeys Don't Make Good Gifts
This is a commercial, for sure, and it came from a PR pitch that begins with the words “shrieking monkeys.” But this video for a photo-books product made me laugh out loud. And it was not only the...
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Viral Video: First Trailer for "The Hobbit" Movie
Since about 2004, the holiday season has been missing a little something. During the prior three years, I had become accustomed to standing in line to see a “Lord of the Rings” movie. But there were...
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Viral Video: "Game Change" (Or the Latest Sarah Palin Impersonation)
The ever-bickering crop of current Republican Presidential nominees dragging themselves to the first Iowa vote in the coming weeks almost makes you wish for a true political character to liven up the...
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Get Your Zombie-Eaten Brain Ready for Some Big-Think Tech Books
First off: I can reassure all my readers that I will not be coming out with an opus on Yahoo’s turmoil in 2012. Nor rounding out a trilogy of books on AOL in 2013, for that matter, full of lessons...
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Tasty Geek: Nathan Myhrvold Takes His Modernist Cuisine to "Top Chef"
Being the huge fan of “Top Chef” that I am — hellllloooo, Padma! — it was even more a treat to see former Microsoft legend, controversial patent grabber and full-time fiddler Nathan Myhrvold as a...
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Sarah Lacy Debuts New Tech Site, PandoDaily -- $2M+ in Funding and Guess...
As has been widely reported, well-known TechCrunch columnist and Silicon Valley journalist Sarah Lacy has a new gig: Running her own new tech news site, which debuts today. (She’s pictured here with...
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Pulling Back Apple's Magic Curtain: Fortune's Lashinsky Talks About New Book...
Yesterday, before he jetted off for a glam trip to the tony World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Fortune magazine’s Adam Lashinsky met me at San Francisco International Airport to talk about...
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App Makes Readers' Thoughts an Open Book
Even the shyest airplane passengers are hard-pressed to remain mum when a seatmate pulls out a book with a familiar cover. Now, thanks to the popularity of e-books, these once visible book covers are...
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Facebook (Eye)PO: Early Investor Reid Hoffman on Mission Vs. Payday
With the seemingly endless mishegas at Yahoo these days, I have taken my eye off the Facebook IPO ball. (Eye)PO, get it!?! But I am back until the next stumble in HooVille, with this interesting and...
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Viral Video: "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"
The popular, albeit odd, book is coming out as a movie this summer, with the description: “President Lincoln’s mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires...
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Viral Video: There Will Be Dragons (In "Game of Thrones" Second Season, Natch!)
The kings are at it again in the second season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” — the hit cable show based on the famous series of books by George R.R. Martin. Also, one queen, who has herself some dragons....
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A Big Digital Kiss to Britannica: Change -- It Is Okay (Look It Up!)
The folks over at Encyclopaedia Britannica posted today to say they are discontinuing the 32-volume printed book edition of the invaluable information resource “when our current inventory is gone.”...
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Third Point's Loeb to Yahoo About Board Rejection: "Illogical...
Third Point’s Dan Loeb, the activist Yahoo shareholder, fired back at the company today about recent board appointments that ignored his alternate slate of directors, in yet another colorful letter...
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Viral Video: "The Host" Does Not Seem Very Cordial
Freaky blue eyes, freaky voice, freaky aliens come here to occupy us humans again. I am so there. Here’s the trailer for the movie version of the book “The Host,” by the same lady who wrote the...
View ArticleReports: Apple Could Face Federal E-Book Suit Today
The Department of Justice may file a suit against Apple today over e-book price-fixing complaints, according to reports from Reuters and Bloomberg. The DOJ has been probing antitrust complaints...
View ArticlePatents or Pork Belly? AllThingsD's Katie Boehret Talks With Nathan Myhrvold.
Katie snagged a quick backstage conversation with Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold, and asked him about the other venture he has become famous for. Myhrvold has won two James Beard culinary...
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Aaron Sorkin on Jobs Movie, Zuckerberg as Antihero and More: The Full D10...
One of the most engaging interviews at the 10th D: All Things Digital conference was with well-known Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin. Best known for television hits such as “The West Wing” and...
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In Major Expansion, Kno Adds K-12 to Digital Education Platform (Video)
In a big leap into a new but adjacent market, Silicon Valley digital education start-up Kno said it is entering the K-12 space, expanding from its college-only focus. Its first step will be a...
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Before Q2 Earnings, Groupon Book Author Sennett and Former COO Solomon Talk...
With a title like this — “Groupon’s Biggest Deal Ever: The Inside Story of How One Insane Gamble, Tons of Unbelievable Hype, and Millions of Wild Deals Made Billions for One Ballsy Joker” — it’s...
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Facebook's Sandberg Has Penned "Lean In" -- A Book on Women and Leadership --...
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has written a book on challenges facing women in the workplace that is expected to be published next year by Knopf. Titled “Lean In,” the book is not a memoir, but a “call...
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