Fox owns MySpace, and it’s watching how it’s being used. Mike Lang is executive vice president of business development and strategy at Fox Networks. He spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at “THE DEAL” Technology Summit in Mountain View, Calif., about why he sees continued growth for the social networking site.

Jennifer Jones of PodTech and Cole Bader discuss how private companies which are seeking an exit need to market their company. Badar offers insights into the exit process. Packaging a company as a market leader by thinking small and owning a niche is one tip offered by the 14-year veteran ...

Kolachi is one of the traditional names for the port city of Karachi, in Pakistan’s coastal southern province of Sindh. The city too is a peculiarly South Asian blend of old and new, crowded marketplaces competing for space with massive concrete office blocks housing an overwhelmingly large part of Pakistan’s business — well over one third of the economy comes out of this bustling city of 12 million. It also has a vibrant arts and culture scene.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 18, 2006 (PodTech News) – “The radios worked in New Orleans until the power went out,” said Ellen Kirk, vice president of marketing for Tropos Networks, in an interview Wednesday with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau. That test bodes well for the durability of Mountain View’s new Google WiFi ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., August 17, 2006 (PodTech News) — Lease your lampposts for $39 a pop, and get a free WiFi network that serves the entire city? No wonder the Google WiFi proposal got a standing ovation and passage in a single meeting of Mountain View’s city council. PodTech’s Catherine ...

MENLO PARK, August 16, 2006 (PodTech News) – Google WiFi is open for business in the city of Mountain View. As of 9 p.m. Tuesday, the city of 72,000 became the second, and most populous, U.S. city with completely free Internet access blanketing the community. Chris Sacca, head of special ...

Looking at social networking at Mashup Camp in Mountain View, California, with PodTech’s Michael Johnson.

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“…the people that move the nuts and bolts, that are reinventing technology as we speak; reinventing how applications are run on your desktop, reinventing how different websites and different services on the web are woven together, integrated, and they’re reinventing it right here in front of us…”

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MashupCamp, held February 2006 at the Computer Museum in Mountain View, gave PodTech a chance to rub elbows with some young programmers who put their intriguing mashups on display. We hit almost all of them in a day full of “Speed Geeking” rounds. We had about 5 minutes with each ...

The Mashup Camp at the Computer Museum in Mountain View California is the scene for programmers seeking new ways to make the web better, i.e., Web 2.0. Bob Frankston, whose picture is on the wall at the museum [he co-invented the first spreadsheet in the late 70s] stopped by the ...