Updated with video clips, after the jump, courtesy of AllThingsD: Barry Diller is on stage at D conference, speaking about the Liberty spat and his stint at Delaware court: “Partnerships…

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Howard Stringer, the CEO of Sony (NYSE: SNE), is on stage talking about, among other things, Sony’s position in music: “We have sold about 170 million music enabled phones, which…

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Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) CEO Bobby Kotick on social gaming: “It is bringing new users into the gaming market...you are seeing a lot of traffic on those sites and places like…

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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is on the verge of launching an a-la-carte pay-per-view video streaming service, Jeff Bezos told attendees at D6. The service is meant for a subset of people…

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Sir Howard Stringer is doing a star turn as chief salesman for Sony (NYSE: SNE). One of his top messages: Playstation 3, which was “sort of on life support before”…

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Walt Mossberg and Jeff Bezos are talking Kindle. No details on actual unit sales or downloads but Bezos does toss a news bone—the Kindle is now responsible for 6 percent…

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It’s 8 am and I’m sitting in the Four Season auditorium listening to Jill Sobule sing about dying record companies—“I’ve got nothing to prove, once I was as miserable as…

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Ballmer and Zuckerberg at the D conference....

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Here at D listening to the Bill and Steve show—Gates and Ballmer this year, no repeat of last year’s star turn by Steve Jobs. It starts with the Microsoft-Gates farewell…

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In the middle of apprehensions about the major editorial changes at Wall Street Journal, some reassurance from Les Hinton, the new-ish CEO Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), at the opening of…

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As has been customary for the last two years I have attended the D conference, the first post is always about the schwag bag...and there is a reason for it:…

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The Viacom (NYSE: VIA) booth is usually a swirl of activity at The Cable Show and this year was no exception—Dora The Explorer posing for photos, the Nick animators doing…

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The partner of the Clearwire-Sprint (NYSE: S) JV when it comes to The Cable Show buzz: cable advertising consortium Project Canoe, which comes with more hype—and hope—right now than details.…

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During a Q&A with analyst Imran Khan at the JPM Technology Conference, CNET CFO Zander Lurie had one major topic to discuss: the company’s recently announced planned $1.8 billion sale…

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I’m in New Orleans at The Cable Show, where the Clearwire-Sprint (NYSE: S) WiMax JV owns some of the biggest buzz. Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) CEO Brian Roberts and Intel (NSDQ:…

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The Online Publishers Association’s Forum For The Future in London on Thursday handed the task of engaging delegates after lunch to Geoff Ramsey, founder of digital research analyzer eMarketer. He…

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Advertisers and publishers on this morning’s State Of Advertising panel, at the Online Publishers Association’s Forum For The Future in London, appear convinced of two things - the economy’s going…

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In our second video from EconSM 2008, Social Approach’s CEO Shawn Gold moderated Getting Real: Grown-Up Start Ups with Dalton Caldwell, imeem’s founder and CEO, Seth Goldstein, SocialMedia Networks’ co-founder…

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At the Needham Internet and Digital Media Conference, Thomas Clarke, CEO of TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM), gave an almost identical presentation to one he gave at a Jefferies conference earlier this…

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For a while there, eMusic was notable as the online music retailer that didn’t have DRM, but that differentiator is pretty much gone. During a panel on the ‘long tail’…

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Brand advertising growth has slowed down online, but the weakening economy is just one factor, according to Jim Spanfeller, CEO of Forbes.com. During a keynote interview with senior analyst Mark…

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With representatives of Jana in the room at the Needham Internet and Digital Media Conference, CNET (NSDQ: CNET) CEO Neil Ashe made the case that the company is on an…

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TV offspring for MomLogic.com:  THR says WB’s Telepictures Prods. is considering a daytime talk show based on its still new MomLogic.com, possibly as early as 2009. This fits in with…

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At American Business Media’s annual Spring conference at La Quinta, CA, the opening keynote this morning going on right now is by David Calhoun, Chairman/ CEO of The Nielsen Company.…

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So there was a small connection between today’s big story and the Berkshire Hathaway meeting: Bill Gates and Sue Decker were both seated in the very front row, with just…

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