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How meeting Barry Diller influenced the development of the internet

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It was early 1993 when Andy Grove asked me to meet his renowned journalist friend, Norm Pearlstine. At that time, Norm was Executive Vice President of Dow Jones, which owned The Wall Street Journal, where Norm had previously worked. He would go on to become Editor-in-Chief of Time Magazine, eventually run the LA Times. Norm … Continue reading →

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Mixed emotions about the potential acquisition of Time Warner Cable by Comcast

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So I while I am proud that my old friends at Comcast have done so well, I will be disappointed if Comcast ends up with the Time Warner Cable business. I would have preferred that Google, Apple, Microsoft or even Intel would have bought it. Then the model could be changed because they would aggressively adopt new forms of content programing and commerce Continue reading →