"While Google aims to profit from the videos on [YouTube] today, it ultimately is more interested in making sure that the company becomes the primary platform consumers use to generate, store, sort, and view all their video content and communications."
- Jessi Hempel, my Fortune collegaue, in an eye-opening piece, "Google (still) loves YouTube," about Google's (GOOG) YouTube in the new issue of Fortune. She notes that YouTube recently snuck up MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 31, 2009 6:10 PM ET
"When he's not arresting you, Sergeant Crowley is a really likable guy."
-- Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., after the "beer summit" with Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department, Vice President Biden and President Obama. Race relations have taken center stage ever since Sgt. Crowley arrested Prof. Gates for disorderly conduct in his own home last week. Of the moniker given to the gathering, the President called it MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jul 31, 2009 2:56 AM ET
Has Wall Street regulation worked? As a landmark stock-research settlement--requiring brokerages to spend $460 million over five years on reforms--expired this week, the key man behind the deal, Eliot Spitzer, and two experts, former Citigroup (C) CFO Sallie Krawcheck and Fortune's Allan Sloan, convened at CNNMoney's studios to talk about the progress. I sat in on their conversation. You can view segments on CNNMoney by clicking the links at the MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 30, 2009 2:05 PM ET
"If I were him, I'd drop this drivel and start thanking his team. Without them, he doesn't win."
--Lance Armstrong, responding to Astana teammate and 2009 Tour de France champion Alberto Contador. On Monday, the day after the race ended, the Spanish champion told reporters that he "never had great admiration" for Armstrong and "never will." The two battled for the role of team leader during the three-week race, and when MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jul 30, 2009 2:06 AM ET
by Patricia Sellers
"Every key word that every advertiser in every part of the world would put on Google, I want on our system."
That's what Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer declared last month when I interviewed him onstage at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. He also confessed one great regret since he took the helm from Bill Gates a decade ago: "We should have been earlier in search."
So, if you're at all MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 29, 2009 10:47 AM ET
by Patricia Sellers and Jessica Shambora
We took a break from posting our daily Power Point--Postcards' quote of the day--last week, but we collected more than a few good ones at Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Pasadena. Here are our 10 favorites, from the mouths of media moguls, tech titans, Tweeters and more.
"It's not really my thing. I don't go to the dentist. I don't do things that cause me to emote." MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jul 28, 2009 12:09 PM ET
"Barry stirs the pot and he sees the future."
NBC programming boss Ben Silverman, on why he's leaving to join Barry Diller's IAC Interactive Corp. (IACI). The two media honchos, who participated in Fortune Brainstorm Tech in California last week, are plotting a multi-media production company, which will be their third venture together. It's been a bumpy two years since NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker brought Silverman on board. Still, says MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 27, 2009 6:53 PM ET
As the debate about health-care reform rages endlessly, everyone with a vested interest (that's all of us) might consider a few priorities.
Such as: Revamp the fee-for-service model--because when doctors get paid for each service they perform, costs go up inevitably. Reward value. Reduce end-of-life care costs. Improve delivery. The list goes on.
What may be most important of all? Empowering consumers. We explored this topic on Friday during a health-care roundtable MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 27, 2009 3:03 PM ET
by Patricia Sellers
On Tuesday night, during a dinner conversation about the growth of Facebook and the potential of Twitter, I tossed out a phrase that I can"t get out of my head these past three days at Fortune Brainstorm Tech in California. The conversation was with a dozen or so Silicon Valley execs, from companies like Google (GOOG) and eBay (EBAY) and Palm (PALM), and they were noting that Twitter hasn't invested MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 24, 2009 3:48 PM ET
by Patricia Sellers
Ning CEO Gina Bianchini is getting lots of curious looks and occasional "Congratulations!" here at Fortune Brainstorm Tech. The news leaked this week that her start-up raised $15 million at a company valuation of...get this, $750 million.
That's a stunning number, and incidentally, she didn't ask for the new funding. On Tuesday night, before Bianchini and I both arrived here in Pasadena, California for Fortune's annual tech confab, we MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 23, 2009 3:11 PM ET
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