TalkCrunch (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
I spoke to Powerset CEO and cofounder Barney Pell and Microsoft Live Search Group Program Manager Ramez Naam today about the Powerser/Microsoft acquisition. Total talk time is around 35 minutes, and the full transcript is at TechCrunch.
TalkCrunch (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Skype is getting a major, much-needed upgrade: Skype 4.0. President Josh Silverman calls it the “biggest new release in Skype’s history.” The new software client, which which will be released here in beta tomorrow (for Windows only), takes up the whole screen. Video is front and center. Read more here .
TalkCrunch (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
I interviewed former Speaker of the House Newt Gringrich this morning about his goals with American Solutions, which now has a Silicon Valley office. We also spoke about a number of technology issues, and his thoughts on the upcoming presidential election. More on TechCrunch, along with the full transcript of the conversation. Total talk time is [...]
TalkCrunch (Free subscription) | 29/04/2008
Citi’s Internet Analyst Mark Mahaney has been at the center of the Microsoft/Yahoo takeover battle since the beginning. On February 2, a day after the Microsoft bid, Mahaney gave his reasons why he believed the deal had just a 60% chance of happening. Mahaney also estimated (on February 2) that a search advertising outsourcing arrangement [...]
TalkCrunch (Free subscription) | 17/03/2008
As part of our election series, I spoke to Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard and the newly announced Victory Chairman for the Republican National Committee. We’ve spoken with most of the top presidential candidates over the last few months to get their on record position on ten key technology issues (Ron Paul, Barack [...]
TalkCrunch (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Last week we fit in a long interview with Rob Hawley at the nationally syndicated Dishin Digital about our Tech President endorsements. Other media coverage of the endorsements is here. Two things I like about radio - you have a lot more time to express your ideas v. a quick tv spot, and you don't have [...]
TalkCrunch (Free subscription) | 29/01/2008
We were not able to schedule time with Congressman Ron Paul, a Republican candidate for president in 2008, until after we made our presidential endorsements this morning. No worries, though. Dr. Paul took the user voting portion of the endorsements in a landslide, although we endorsed rival John McCain over him in the editorial portion [...]
TalkCrunch (Free subscription) | 18/01/2008
The Crunchies are tonight. Alice 97.3 mentioned it on air today during their morning show, which is no. 1 rated in this market. The event is this evening, see you all there!
TalkCrunch (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich was too far behind in the polls to get invited to today's ABC/Facebook presidential debate - he was cut along with Duncan Hunter and Mike Gravel. Instead, we scheduled time to talk with him about his positions on technical policies, something we’ve already done with Barack Obama, John McCain, John [...]
TalkCrunch (Free subscription) | 08/12/2007
Nik Cubrilovic and I managed to get the very busy Joe Hewitt on the phone for an interview about the new Facebook iPhone application that he built. Hewitt joined Facebook when the company he co-founded with Blake Ross, Parakey, was acquired in July. Hewitt has become a major contributor to the ...
TalkCrunch (Free subscription) | 12/11/2007
Next in our series of talks with 2008 presidential candidates on their positions on key technology issues is Senator John McCain . McCain made no stipulations on what we talked about before the podcast, and our conversation sort of roamed over a number of important current events and issues. We’ll have the full transcript up on TechCrunch later this morning. We made deep dives on the recent Yahoo/China...
TalkCrunch (Free subscription) | 01/11/2007
Last week I mentioned that we had scheduled a podcast interview with Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican candidate for President in 2008. In our original post we asked the readers to come up with questions that they would like us to ask Governor Romney. The feedback was great, and we put together a list of what [...]
