The buzz at Fortune Brainstorm Tech last weekend, as I mentioned in Monday's Postcard, was much about the power of online games. Google (GOOG), Walt Disney (DIS), and lots of startup folks view social games as a most efficient pathway to getting active Internet users to spend money online.
So, what do you know, a bunch of social-game deals are making headlines this week. Fortune.com's JP Mangalindan and I co-wrote a MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 29, 2010 11:23 AM ET
by Patricia Sellers
I'm back from Brainstorm Tech in Aspen. Among the CEOs at Fortune's three-day confab: Ursula Burns of Xerox (XRX), Barry Diller of IAC (IACI), Tim Armstrong of AOL (AOL), Bobby Kotick of Activision Blizzard (ATVI), and Susan Lyne of Gilt Group.
I saw plenty that excited me (Flipboard for the iPad is cool, and I downloaded it right away), but I also heard lots that made my head spin. MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 26, 2010 3:16 PM ET
by Patricia Sellers
New York Times columnist Nick Kristof once said that if Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Brothers & Sisters, the world might not have ended up in the soup it's in.
That's a good line. And champions of gender diversity flog it far and wide now that the topic of women and power is hotter than ever. That's because, as Kristof notes in today's op-ed, "Don't Write Men Off Just Yet," MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 22, 2010 12:37 PM ET
Ever since Thursday night, when a band of teens swooped in and ran off with my purse, Type A's I know have been telling me: "It could have been me!"
"Driven to distraction, but aren't we all?" was the title of Friday's Postcard, in which I blamed myself, largely, for the mugging: The gang pounced as I was wrapped up in conversation on my cell, oblivious to activity (and peril) around MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 19, 2010 12:15 PM ET
by Patricia Sellers
On Monday, I wrote about information overload. You, like I, probably can relate too well. This was the hot topic a week ago at the Aspen Ideas Festival, where I moderated a panel that included David Craig, the stat-spewing chief strategy officer of Thomson Reuters (TRI), which claims to be the largest dispenser of financial data in the world.
The best performers in business and beyond, I noted during the Aspen MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 16, 2010 12:57 PM ET
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by Patricia Sellers
"Azul is JetBlue in Brazil," says David Neeleman, who may be the most ambitious entrepreneur the skies have seen since the Wright Brothers.
You know Neeleman as the guy who created JetBlue (JBLU), altered the airline industry (in a customer-centric good way), and eventually got booted by his board for lax management during an epic ice storm.
Now Neeleman is in Brazil, working Latin America's MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 13, 2010 12:15 PM ET
by Patricia Sellers
Facebook claims more than 400 million users. Skype (EBAY) has over 20 million users at peak times. Ten billion financial market price movements happen daily.
In a world of information overload, another winner: Thomson Reuters (TRI), whose EVP and chief strategy officer, David Craig, was on a panel that I ledon Saturday at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Thomson Reuters, purportedly the world's largest financial real-time data network, spews out MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 12, 2010 1:45 PM ET
By Patricia Sellers
Any Baby Boomer who has worked alongside Millennials -- Gen Yers born after 1978 -- knows how differently they view work and career. While we Baby Boomers typically place high value on pay, benefits, stability and prestige, Gen Y cares most about fun, innovation, social responsibility, and time off.
One person who has been thinking a lot lately about this generational divide is Shelly Lazarus, the chairman of ad MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 7, 2010 2:30 PM ET
By Patricia Sellers
Besides Africa's rise in GDP and global stature, one subject dominated the conversation at the Global Forum, hosted by Fortune and Time and CNN this past week in Cape Town. That is: the economic potential of women.
Just about all the heavy-hitters -- Bill Clinton, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and various CEOs -- spoke of the essential role of women in bringing Africa to its potential. "Who are the entrepreneurs?' MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 1, 2010 12:09 PM ET
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Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), "MySpace Cowboys," Martha Stewart ("I cannot be destroyed"), Ted Turner ("Gone with the Wind") and Oprah Winfrey ("Oprah Inc."). Since its launch in 1998, Pattie has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women" cover package.
A specialist at dissecting larger-than-life personalities, she has also profiled former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Morgan Stanley chairman John Mack, and countless CEOs.
Pattie co-chairs the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, academia, and the arts. She started at Fortune in 1984, covering the big brand companies.
In Pattie's blog, Postcards, she provides insight into the lives of super-achievers through commentary, career advice, and Guest Posts by CEOs and other leaders.
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