Bill Gates

Tom Brokaw, Vernon Jordan and the Shy Divorcee - Posted November 16, 2011
It was SRO at Michael's today. The dining room was so jam packed every sqaure inch was occupied by a mogul (Mel Karmazin!), media heavyweight (Tom Brokaw, ... [FishbowlLA]

Tom Brokaw, Vernon Jordan and the Shy Divorcee - Posted November 16, 2011
It was SRO at Michael's today. The dining room was so jam packed every sqaure inch was occupied by a mogul (Mel Karmazin!), media heavyweight (Tom Brokaw, ... [FishbowlNY]

Friday Morning Laughs - Bill Gates Leaps Over A Chair - Posted October 14, 2011
TGIF! We've made it to the end of another workweek and to celebrate we bring you our Friday Morning Laughs--a collection of some of the funniest videos that went viral over the past week. Our funny video roundup this week includes a video of Bill Gates' hidden talent, a... [SocialTimes.com]

Remembering Steve Jobs: Moving Tributes Pour In - Posted October 5, 2011
Steve Jobs, the visionary behind Apple whose prod... [TVSpy]

Melinda Gates Joins Twitter, Soars To 20,000 Followers In 2 Days - Posted September 23, 2011
She may have only tweeted seven times thus far, but Melinda Gates is amassing followers on Twitter at a rapid pace. She's nowhere near her hubby, Bill, just yet, but given his clout and her association with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, she could reach his more-than-a-million-followers status faster... [AllTwitter]

A Photojournalist's Tale of Woe - Posted September 22, 2011
It's not just print journalists taking it on the chin these days. Per a long and highly informative article at ConsortiumNews.com by Don ... [FishbowlLA]

Bill Gates Buys Into LA's Splash News - Posted July 20, 2011
As Seattle Times business reporter Melissa Allison so aptly puts it today in her article lede about Corbi... [FishbowlLA]

Bill Clinton Helps Students Get College Funding... By Launching New Facebook App - Posted April 5, 2011
At the 2011 Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), President Bill Clinton announced that MTV and the College Board, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will develop a first of its kind social media tool to help students find money for college. The social media tool is based on... [SocialTimes.com]

Longtime Wired Manager Gets Promoted, Moves to New York - Posted March 9, 2011
Maya Draisin has been with technology magazine Wired for seven years. Draisin has been promoted to associate publisher, marketing, and with it comes a move from San Francisco to New York. Draisin previously served as the promotions director, special projects direct... [FishbowlNY]

New Media Index: Bloggers Slice Into Tax-Cut Accord; WikiLeaks Dominates Twitter - Posted December 16, 2010
Bloggers shared the most news links about the deal between President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress on tax cuts, while the ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

5 Most Interesting Faces on Twitter's 2010 List - Posted December 10, 2010
To celebrate the end of 2010, Twitter has released an interactive app commemorating "Who's New on Twitter". The microblogging platform saw more than 100 million new accounts in 2010, a... [AllTwitter]

You've Probably Never Heard of 2010's Most Influential Sports Businessman - Posted December 6, 2010
Red Bull is everywhere in the sporting world. They boast the planet's best F1 team. They ... [SportsNewser]

Friday Odds and Ends - Posted December 3, 2010
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Burson-Marsteller Brass to Deliver Keynote on Politics, Social Media at BlogWorld & New Media Expo 2010 - Posted September 30, 2010
Two top executives from public-relations and communications firm Burson-Marsteller will deliver a keynote present... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Fortune Magazine Vets Launch Media Venture 'Techonomy' - Posted May 26, 2010
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Former Microsoft, Evri Exec To Lead Public Media's Corporate Sponsorship Firm - Posted October 27, 2009
National Public Media, the corporate sponsorship firm for NPR, PBS and Boston-based ... [FishbowlNY]

FBN Goes Commercial-Free For Buffett Interview, Live Saturday From Omaha - Posted May 1, 2009
FBN's Liz Claman has conducted her fair ... [TVNewser]

The Ticker: Robinson, Luntz, Liu... - Posted April 28, 2009
> Politico's Anne Schroeder Mullins profiles Hardball star booker, Querry Robinson. "Wherever you go with Querry, you feel like you're with a celebrity...everyone knows him in this town; it's hilarious," said fellow booker ... [TVNewser]

New TV Show To Do What Web Show Already Is Doing...Without the Beer - Posted February 23, 2009
B&C's Alex Weprin caught up with Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback to get his reaction to the announcement that Twentieth Television is launching a TV show based on Yahoo! Buzz, the search engine's social news site. Revision3 alr... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

CES Isn't the Only Show in Town - Posted January 8, 2009
So, in addition to CES, there's this other conference going on in Las Vegas this week. In fact, CES is sharing some of the same space, the Sands/Venetian Expo Center, with the Adult Entertainment eXpo. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer brought it up last night at the start of his keynote. Ballmer... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

The Afternoon Ticker: Wolf, MacVicar, Buffett... - Posted December 3, 2008
> Bill Gates is in the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer today (Part II tomorrow) with this cheery thought: "We're certainly going to have a fairly serious recession." > That other multi-billionaire, ... [TVNewser]

Liz Claman's "Enormous Rolodex" and O'Reilly Fan Dad - Posted October 20, 2008
FBN's Liz Claman is profiled by Broadcasting & Cable's Marisa Guthrie, and talks with... [TVNewser]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted October 3, 2008
Meet the Press: Democratic strategist Paul Begala and Republican strategist Mike Murphy, and a roundtable with NBC's David Gregory, PBS' Gwen Ifill, Wall Street ... [FishbowlDC]

FBLA Exclusive: Inside the Microsoft Campaign - Posted September 5, 2008
We just got word from our person on the inside that the new Microsoft commercial featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates was most like... [FishbowlLA]

New Microsoft Ad Released - Posted September 5, 2008
This one features Bi... [FishbowlLA]

Icahn and Microsoft Fail to Charm Yahoo, Again - Posted July 14, 2008
It's back off-again. Over the week-end Yahoo rejected Carl Icahn and ... [FishbowlNY]

Gates, Buffet Speak, and the Moguls Listen - Posted July 13, 2008
Dan Cox, on special assignment for FishbowlLA, covering the 2008 Sun Valley Media Conference. On the closing day of the Sun Valley Media Conference, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett... [FishbowlLA]

The King Speaks and Jerry Yang Shows Up - Posted July 11, 2008
Dan Cox, on special assignment for FishbowlLA, covering the 2008 Sun Valley Media Conference. As Herb Allen's Sun Valley retreat started to wind down Friday afternoon, some key executives we... [FishbowlLA]

Yahoo CEO Under the Microscope At Sun Valley - Posted July 11, 2008
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said on Thursday that he was unlikely to meet with Microsoft reps at this week's Sun Valley meeting of media and tech executives in Idaho, according to Reute... [ThinkMobile - SocialTimes.com]

Jeff Zucker's NBCU Deal Denial and A Surprise Visit From Bill Gates - Posted July 10, 2008
Dan Cox, on special assignment for FishbowlLA, covering the 2008 Sun Valley Media Conference.Universal Studios CEO Ron Meyer was standing with NBCU head ... [FishbowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 02.26.08 - Posted February 26, 2008
Good morning Washington. Quickly navigate Morning Reading List: REVOLVING DOOR | NEWSPAPERS | TV | ONLINE MEDIA | MAGAZINES | RADIO | BOOKS | JOBS You ... [FishbowlDC]

Semantic Technologies Really Do Pay Off - Posted November 30, 2007
As the former Chief Information Officer of Europe’s largest internet bank, Egg plc, the decision to select semantic technologies to underpin the launch of my next large scale consumer business, Garlik (www.garlik.com), was not one I took lightly. At Egg, I had been responsible for 4 million online banking customers running a... [semanticweb.com]

Morning Reading List, 09.14.07 - Posted September 14, 2007
Good morning Washington. Most of you open up new web pages in a new tab, as opposed to a new window. And most of you are sorta geeky too. A NBC release announced, "According to Nielsen Media Research data, 'Meet the Press with Tim Russert' was the No.... [FishbowlDC]

iPhone iNsanity - Posted June 28, 2007
The wait is almost over: The iPhone arrives at 6PM tomorrow. The reviews are already rolling in. Across the board, experts complain about AT&T's service, but enjoy the phone and agree it's a huge advance. Whether the iPhone is part of Steve Jobs' diabolical scheme to light ... [FishbowlNY]

Video: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Together - Posted May 31, 2007
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Gates: "Reading to Go Completely Online" - Posted May 10, 2007
No doubt comments made by Bill Gates at Microsoft's Strategic Account Summit online advertising conference in Seattle yesterday will ricochet around the blogosphere and back again, based solely on the title of this subject header alone. But the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Tod... [GalleyCat]

Off the Media: Gates v. Garfield v. Blogosphere - Posted March 22, 2007
"On the Media" co-host Bob Garfield this week asks America's-richest-man, philanthropist and future thinker Bill Gates what we've all wanted to know: What do you think of those Mac ads on TV that make you look reall... [FishbowlNY]

Sundown on Sunset - Posted March 9, 2007
Daylight Savings Time: Clocks move ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 11, 2007. Courtney Love spent three months at a Newport Beach rehab facility in 2005 and has since ignored demands to pay the outstandi... [FishbowlLA]

PC vs. Mac: Bill Gates Just Doesn't Get It - Posted February 7, 2007
We try not to get in the middle of things when it comes to discussing operating systems. We really do. But when Newsweek confronts Bill Gates about the P... [UnBeige]