In 2007 deals in the health care M&A marketplace soared. Siemens’s $7 billion purchase of Dade Behring, Medtronic’s purchase of Kyphon and Carlyle Group’s purchase of Manor Care are just a few of the deals that contributed to a trend-setting year in the health care sector. In this ...

Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson have made a new movie called There Will Be Blood, based on the Upton Sinclair novel, “Oil.” After seeing a special edition of Moby Dick, made by Arion Press, they called the San Francisco publisher of fine art ...

The Story So Far…
A former high-tech genius, Shiloh Anderson struggles against his addiction to technology. In an effort to free himself, he abandons all forms of technology introduced after 1971, the year the first mass-produced answering machine was available to the public. Friends, family and other addicts offer many temptations which he resists, with the help of a 12-step program and his sponsor. He transfers the energy behind his addiction into shaming and belittling everyone still plugged into the modern world. This gives him an excuse to keep up with the latest in technological advancements, and frequently causes him to relapse, going on technological binges.

A former high-tech genius, Shiloh Anderson struggles against his addiction to technology. In an effort to free himself, he abandons all forms of technology introduced after 1971, the year the first mass-produced answering machine was available to the public. Friends, family and other addicts offer many temptations which he resists ...

At the Challenge X event held at the GM World Headquarters in Detroit, MI, Micky Bly, engineering director for GM’s hybrid vehicle integration contols, reached out for a one-on-one with a group of bloggers including Sam Abuelsamid from AutoblogGreen, Todd Kaho of Green Car Journal, ...

There’s a lot of enthusiasm right now around ethanol as a potential solution to our oil addiction. Not everyone shares that enthusiasm, though. Margot Gerritsen speaks with UC Berkeley Professor Tad Patzek for a different perspective. Patzek is certain that corn ethanol and/or cellulosic ethanol (produced by specialized biomass crops) ...

John Powers, president and CEO of Digipede Technologies, and Robert Anderson, Digipede’s CTO, talk with me about how they are enabling .NET developers to build grid computing architectures. This lets developers on Windows get incredible scale across many machines. This video will be of special interest for developers and ...

Kevin Anderson is the blogging editor for Guardian Unlimited. He tells Jennifer Jones how “interactivity trumps celebrity” when trying to build a blog. It’s more important to write and build community, says Anderson, who calls the Guardian the most forward-thinking newspaper in the world. The traditional media have already ...

At the recently concluded TiECon Meeting in New Delhi, TiE and Canaan Partners, along with other partners, announced a business competition for start-ups and businesses.

Canaan Partner’s Alok Mittal discusses the business plan competition: who can participate and what do winners walk away with as their prize?

After ...

That familiar term IPO is making a comeback in India. Info Edge India Pvt Ltd opened its Initial Public Offering for subscription from today through November 2, 2006. Info Edge owns properties like Naukri.com, a job search portal; JeevanSaathi.com, a matchmaking portal and 99acres.com, a real estate ...

LOS ANGELES, August 24, 2006, (PodTech News) — Sony Pictures Entertainment announced a $65 million deal Wednesday to acquire Grouper Networks Inc., putting the media company in play in the viral media space. The acquisition brings together one of the largest movie studios (and its many divisions) and a Web ...

Howard Anderson speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson after his Keynote speech at TiECON East 2006 in Boston. Anderson says, “It would be nice to say that we always move to advance more technical, but China’s going there too. We’ve always pushed out some of the labor intensive businesses to the ...

Howard Anderson of the Yankee and Battery Ventures delivers an edgy and dynamic look at the future roles of India and China in the global economy of the not too distant future, and the history of global business culture in Asia and America.

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Media InfoTalk™ - Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine on the Long Tail and the impact on marketing and PR

Chris is a great guy who is doing some important research on the effects and economics of the Long Tail trend. Towards the end he speaks volumes about ...