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Fortune 500 Forum wrap-up
I'm always too slow to get around to reporting about our great Fortune conferences. Once again, in the better-late-than-never category, here are a few thoughts from the Fortune 500 Forum, held last...
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Facebook's best face
Facebook held a holiday party Monday night for journalists at its headquarters in rainy, cold Palo Alto. The conversations there were strictly off the record, so I can't quote what people told me over...
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Behind Dell's snippy attitude
A couple years ago, right around the time Dell's exploding laptop batteries were getting a fair amount of media attention, I had breakfast in San Francisco with a senior Dell executive. He was...
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Five thoughts on Obama's speech
President-elect Obama's first speech since the election won't likely be remembered much by history, especially compared with his upcoming inaugural address. Nevertheless, it was an important moment...
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Can Google save newspapers?
There's been so much online discussion about the interview I did with Google's (GOOG) Eric Schmidt on this subject that I thought I'd post a few more thoughts. (John Battelle snarkily notes that all...
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Newspapers, Idol viewers, Palm and more
To start the week off, here are a few things that jumped out at me over the weekend. * In a New York Times review of a new biography of William Randolph Hearst was this startling fact: In the 1890s,...
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Would Seagate go private again?
Just before the new year a Silicon Valley financial type pointed out to me that August Capital, an old-line but quiet venture firm, had invested twice in disc-drive leader Seagate (STX), once as a...
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Why Yahoo's Bartz should quit her boards
Pattie Sellers and I are having a debate about board memberships. She intelligently argues that boards are good, especially for women, who have a disadvantage at the highest reaches of corporate...
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The Cook Doctrine at Apple
There was a magical moment that had nothing to do with financial results Wednesday afternoon in Apple's (AAPL) conference call with investors. What made the magic remarkable is that it came from Tim...
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Google the good in Q4
By now the headlines already will have covered the basics. Google's (GOOG) fourth-quarter revenues were up 18% to $5.7 billion, a solid showing. Profits fell, but only because Google wrote down loser...
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