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Facebook and Washington Cozy Up

Written on
April 21st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Yup, that was U.S. President Barack Obama yukking it up last night with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as well as a bunch of Facebook staffers and Silicon Valley hobknobbers at the social network’s Palo Alto headquarters last night. Zuck played moderator for a town-hall-style meeting, taking questions from [...] more...

Obama finally names CTO, Google aims for TV, and Techcrunch, heal thyself

Written on
April 20th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

Oracle Corporation announced today an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems for $9.50 per share in cash, or about $7.4 billion total. The deal comes after IBM-Sun talks fell apart. (WSJ) Google’s search robot will finally be crawling its way to your TV. (TeeVee) Eyeing diners, restaurants take to Twitter. (Reuters) Techcrunch says bloggers [...] more...

The economic challenge

Written on
March 12th 2009
Author
DM Confidential

DM CONFIDENTIAL — President Obama has not quite held office for two months, yet judging by the political wrangling it would seem as though he either has been in office much longer or didn’t win with nearly as much support as he did. In politics as in criminal investigations, money [...] more...

Google and the Obama Administration

Written on
February 6th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — Kevin M. Ryan chief marketing officer at WebVisible, has written an open letter to the president, noting the tightening relationship between the dominant Internet company and the government, and how that will hurt, not promote, the web ecosystem. Here are some excerpts: “I thought we were moving past paying [...] more...

Barack Obama’s Mobile Success

Written on
January 20th 2009
Author
KF Lai

ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — In the lead up to today’s inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, much has been made of his embrace of technology, perhaps more so than any incoming president in the modern political era. His campaign fully utilized the Internet for fund raising, [...] more...

MSNBC clipping Obama speech

Written on
January 16th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — MSNBC.com will make it easier for you to search and clip the video of President Barack Obama’s inaugural speech. Others do it, but news video has been slow in utilizing the technique. The site’s video player will let you search the transcript of a video to locate a specific [...] more...

Obama stimulus helps the tech industry

Written on
January 16th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — The $825 billion stimulus package unveiled today includes money for the digital-television transition, health information tech and broadband. The Democrat-sponsored plan gives $650 million to digital-television transfers, which apparently was going broke, and includes $20 billion in proposed spending for health information technology. The proposal also includes $6 billion [...] more...

Broadband Users Rise

Written on
January 6th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — The Obama broadband revolution has already begun, and he hasn’t even take office yet. The top 20 cable and telephone providers in the US signed up 1.3 million new high-speed Internet subscribers in the third quarter of 2008, according to the Leichtman Research Group. Cable companies have 36.5 million [...] more...

E-Government and ROI

Written on
January 5th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — And in our last in a series of predictions for 2009,  John Mahler, of Greater Than One,  gazes into the future: “(This) will be a year of continued fragmentation in the digital space. Technologies will provide consumers with increased control over the content they receive and force marketers to [...] more...

Obama Buys First Video Game Campaign Ads

Written on
October 16th 2008
Author
Reuters Group

Barack Obama, flush with cash and ramping up his advertising in the final weeks before the November 4 election, is making U.S. political history by placing the first presidential campaign ads in online video games. The Democratic Illinois senator is using the Internet ads, featured in 18 games through Microsoft Corp’s [...] more...



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