The Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference about the intersection of politics and technology, has attracted an all-star lineup this year. Marisa Taylor will be live-tweeting talks by Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg, Hillary Clinton staffer Alec Ross, cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch and digital futurist Mark Pesce.
Edited extracts from the Press Release:Global private equity firm The Carlyle Group has successfully closed its fourth Asian growth capital fund, Carlyle Asia Growth Partners IV (CAGP IV), a sector-agnostic growth capital fund which invests in China, India, Korea and other key Asian markets. The fund raised $1.04 billion in 14 months from a broad geographical range of investors.CAGP IV is more
A Big thank you out to all who participated in this draw. I literally took all your names, put ‘em in a bowl, swished them all around and came up with a winner.
Kay Koplovitz calls for more women entrepreneurs during her acceptance speech at the SDForum visionary awards.
The Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference about the intersection of politics and technology, has attracted an all-star lineup this year. The conference opened with a Skype presentation by Michael Bloomberg and a discussion on whether Obama “revolutionized campaigning” with new media and tech innovations during the presidential race.
Vinod Khosla is one of Silicon Valley’s most successful VCs. I was at the recent SDForum Visionary Awards where Mr Khosla was one of four winners of the 2009 awards.
Warren Buffett’s annual charity auction of lunch with himself brought in $1,680,300 when the auction closed on eBay on Friday afternoon. That’s down from last year’s record of $2.1 million, but not too shabby amid the worst recession in decades.
Last week my Saturday Post was about how Internet based technologies have been used to create applications and services that devalue existing business models. It’s a hugely disruptive process. [The Internet Devalues Everything It Touches, Anything That Can Be Digitized]
If the Internet had been around on Aug. 16, 1977, perhaps tweets about Elvis Presley’s death would have surpassed news about the great New York blackout of 1977 or President Jimmy Carter’s struggles over the energy crisis.
The SDForum Visionary Awards are my favorite event of the year because there are tons of great stories and contacts to make.
It was good to see BusinessWeek’s bureau chief Rob Hof, and also Rebecca Buckman from Forbes, but apart from them, there was very little media there — which was great for me because it gives me more chance to get exclusive stories, which I did. I’ll be publishing more stories and video over the next few days.
