Google is looking to transform the way people use computers with its new operating system, Chrome. Here in Sun Valley I sat down with Eric Schmidt in his first TV interview since the potentially game-changing news was announced Tuesday. Read More
I am at Lenny Dykstra's $24 million mansion in Sherwood Country Club, where I snapped some photos. Dykstra is here and preparing to be interviewed by me about his Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing this week, which stopped a planned foreclosure of his estate. Read More
Here at the Allen & Co. Conference in Sun Valley I sat down with WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell for a live on-camera interview, and we continued our conversation off camera. There's no question the ad market is suffering, this year down just over six percent globally, according to his numbers, and even more in the US. And based on Sorrell's month-to-month analysis there's no sign of a bottom just yet, though it looks like the market could turn around in the beginning of 2010. Read More
With several of the giants here sitting on billions of dollars in cash, everyone's speculating whether Twitter could be an acquisition target. CEO Evan Williams recently told me that he's not interested in selling the company at this early point in its life cycle. Still, that's not stopping the, well, twitter about the company. Read More
Remember the $40 billion competition for the Air Force's new refueling tanker? The massive, must-have deal won by Northrop Grumman, which partnered with Airbus' European parent EADS last year, only to be overturned by a challenge from Boeing? Read More
Michael Jackson's official music website is selling CDs and singles online, and now the tour website has started selling the same sort of merchandise it probably hoped to market during Jackson's London concerts. On the website you can buy T-shirts, hats, belt buckles, tote bags, mugs, and even socks. Read More
Michael Jackson's memorial was must see TV...especially on the internet. Yahoo! reports that as of 3 p.m. Pacific on Tuesday, there were five million streams of the memorial at the Staples Center, the largest streaming event in the Yahoo's history. The peak was 385,000 simultaneous streams, second only to the inauguration of President Obama, which peaked at 430,000 streams. Read More
I just landed in Sun Valley for the annual Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley. There are only a handful of private jets in the airport right now, but in just a few hours it'll be packed with jets whose tail numbers tell the story of some of the richest men in America. Read More
The anticipated crowd of 750,000 never materialized outside the Staples Center for the Michael Jackson memorial, and what many feared would be a nightmare has been less stressful than the Lakers celebration and parade just a few weeks ago. Read More
I am a Los Angeles native who has covered every major story here over two decades. I have never seen so many Los Angeles police officers as I do this morning at the Staples Center. Read More