The final stretch for CES revealed bleary eyes from late night parties, cheers for Scoble as he appeared on CNBC, and a rocking good time at BlogHaus. In this installment we get to see rapping about memory chips, amazing flat panel TVs , new technologies ...

Allan Arkush is an executive producer and director of the TV series, “Heroes”, which begins a new season on September 24th. The series is such a hit that it has engendered spin-offs. Arkush, who was trained by Roger Corman, doing promotional films, has come a long way ...

Huntsman Corp. agreed to be acquired by Hexion Corp. for $10.6 billion cash. John Huntsman, Sr. is donating the majority of his share, $1.6B, to various charities, including the Huntsman Cancer Foundation. Forbes Magazine named Utah the 2nd best State for Business and CNBC named ...

David Hornik is a general partner at August Capital. As early-stage investors in companies like Microsoft, August knows what makes great companies, and Hornik serves as its social media expert. He sits on six boards including Six Apart. Hornik was also the first VC to blog and to ...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 5, 2006 (PodTech News) — Search competition may be heating up with Ask.com’s revamped services. Other search firms have pumped some ad revenue into the newspaper industry. How are newspapers reacting? They may be starting to look a lot more local — and a lot more virtual ...

The Web 2.0 mantra is that old media — NBC, Hearst, Disney, etc. — are too incompetent to be successful on the Web. The reality is that old media has invested a lot of time, effort and money in positioning their valuable offline properties to make money online. Some of ...

NBC recently released a series of six mini-games for mobile phones. Each is a “spin-off” from The Office, which airs on the network. Currently available on some carriers, the games will become more widely available on other carriers over the next few weeks.

Mumbai-based Indiagames Ltd. created the games for NBC. We spoke to Sean Malatesta, VP, Americas, about Indiagames and its strategy in the Americas.

MENLO PARK, September 11, 2006 (PodTech News) - Gartner, Inc. Vice President Martin Reynolds said he thinks Hewlett-Packard Board Chair Patricia Dunn did the right thing to investigate leaks of proprietary HP information to the news media, and that he doesn’t think she knew the private investigative firm she retained would use pretexting to conduct the investigation. (Pretexting is the practice of getting a company to turn over consumer records by pretending to be the consumer in question.) HP has said the practice was used to obtain the personal phone records of board members and nine reporters. HP’s board met yesterday, and is meeting again late today, in the wake of investigations into the practice by the offices of the California Attorney General and the U.S. District Attorney’s office, Northern California District. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau interviewed Reynolds to get his take on the role of HP Chair Patricia Dunn, who ordered the investigation into the leaks.

MENLO PARK, June 28, 2006 (PodTech News) — Convergence of online video-sharing sites and traditional network TV is here. Online video site YouTube and NBC Universal announced a promotional partnership Tuesday, the day after Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. announced it plans to sell movies and TV shows online via ...