In a move that most likely would not have been made without the recent efforts of Ashton Kutcher and Oprah Winfrey, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced his candidacy for the California Governor’s seat this morning via Twitter.
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Digg, the social news site that’s long been rumored to be up for sale, has raised $28.7 million in a Series C venture round led by Highland Capital Partners. Existing backers Silicon Valley Bank, Greylock Partners and the Omidyar Network also participated.
The Apple rumor mill has such a hair trigger, that even passing mention of an unreleased product can set it into yammering motion. As happened today after Digg founder Kevin Rose offered up some purported insider information about the focus of Apple’s “Let’s Rock” media event in San Francisco next Tuesday.
“The majority of good applications will soon come from outside Facebook, not within it.” This according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg who announced the social network’s new “Connect” service at the company’s f8 conference today.
With less than three months to go before Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple observers are slowly being swept up in that most hallowed of Mac faithful traditions: the futile guessing game.
If Digg founder Kevin Rose is right, Apple’s next generation iPhone will include not one, but two cameras–the second a front-mounted video camera designed for iChat AV.
During a recent episode of his weekly Diggnation vidcast (see above), Rose claimed that the new iPhone reportedly being prepped by Apple (AAPL) for a summer release will enable [...]
Digg has decided to get out while the getting is still good. The social news site is said to be the prize in a bidding war that includes potential purchasers Google and Microsoft, along with two unnamed media companies. (Gee I wonder who those are?)
Anyway … Digg has reportedly hired New York investment bank Allen [...]
Jerry Yang has about 20 days to convince Yahoo (YHOO) shareholders that they’re better off saving the company than selling it, and he is pulling out all the stops. Last night Yahoo officially launched Buzz, a social news service where “buzz-worthy” articles are ranked according to user interest. It’s essentially Digg (if Digg was purple), redundant and three years late to the social news market.
At this midday panel, TechCrunch40 co-host Jason Calacanis moderated a discussion with Jay Adelson (Digg), David Sacks (Geni), Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), Sumant Mandel (Clearstone), George Zachary (Charles River Ventures), Hank Barry (Howard Rice), and Jeff Clavier (SoftTech VC).
(Quick aside: Before the panel begins, the woman sitting next to me is investigating the contents of [...]
Counterterrorism officer extraordinaire Jack Bauer would have solved this one with a bullet to the temple, so Jorge Romero should consider himself lucky. On Friday, the FBI filed a criminal complaint against Romero for allegedly uploading the first four episodes of the sixth season of “24” to LiveDigital.com, well in advance of their prime-time debut. [...]
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.
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.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
Spectacular in the bellowing Russian sailor sense of the word …
“If you spell something wrong on your insurance claim, do you really deserve surgery? I don’t think so …”
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