Romney Concession and Obama Acceptance Speeches in Three Minutes or Less
Thanks to Time magazine for these videos, which squeeze the post-election speeches of Republican candidate Mitt Romney and Democratic President Barack Obama into three minutes or less:
View ArticleObama Turns to Twitter to Answer Fiscal Cliff Questions
President Barack Obama, trying to win support for his tax and spending proposals, said he will take questions on Twitter at 11 am PST today about the fiscal cliff. “Good to see lots of folks on twitter...
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White House Vaporizes Death Star Petition
An estimated $850 quadrillion effort to add a “Death Star” similar to the one seen in “Star Wars” to the United States’ military arsenal would be too costly and doomed to failure. This according to the...
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Lerer Ventures Hires an Obama Electioneer to Run Its Incubator
If you worked on Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign, you got to spend the end of the year basking in praise for the tech-savvy operation’s exploits. Then you had to get a new job. So Ashley Arenson moved...
View ArticleObama Urges $10 Million to Study Video Games and Violence
In a highly-anticipated press conference Wednesday morning to address gun violence in the United States, President Barack Obama called for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to renew...
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As Obama Speaks, Tech Industry Praises Immigration Reform Proposal
Amid wide-ranging discussion of U.S. immigration reform — including a set of bipartisan principles introduced this week and a speech by President Barack Obama on the issue today — tech companies are...
View ArticleApple CEO Tim Cook to Join Michelle Obama for State of the Union Address
When President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday, a Silicon Valley luminary will be watching alongside the First Lady. Apple CEO Tim Cook is joining Michelle Obama for her...
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Tech Loves Obama, and Obama Loves Tech: The Campaign Roundtables
Barack Obama is not known for being a schmoozer. In fact, he seems to have an aversion to kissing up to donors. But over the course of last year’s U.S. presidential campaign, he repeatedly made time...
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10 Million Jobs in 10 Years
Image copyright Constantine Pankin We Americans are at our best when we have faith in our ability to reinvent our future. From our founding days to now, we have been a nation of revolutionary...
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With White House on Tumblr Promising GIFs, Here's Some to Kick It Off Right
The White House announced earlier this week that is joining the hip microblogging service Tumblr, noting in its announcement on Twitter that “there will be GIFs.” That means “graphics interchange...
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BlogHer to WSJ: Here's the Rest of the Story About Blogging Business Trips
Image copyright llaszloSadly, my co-founders and I didn’t get laid at SXSW this year. Last month, Lisa Stone, Jory Des Jardins and I headed to Austin for our eighth annual SXSW sojourn. Our better...
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White House Taps Twitter Legal Vet for Tech Advisor Post
(Correction: With more details on Wong’s correct position below, who will be working as “senior advisor” to United States CTO Todd Park and not as Chief Privacy Officer.) Nicole Wong, Twitter’s legal...
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White House Aims to Loosen Grip on Government-Held Wireless Spectrum
iStockphoto | maumapho The Obama administration has ordered agencies of the U.S. federal government to examine how they use wireless spectrum, with an eye toward letting go of the signal bands they...
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Election 2016: How Big Data + Social Data Will Determine the Next President
Image copyright AKIllustrationThe presidential election means big business for the ad industry, with a whopping $6 billion spent on 2012 election ads last year across all media according to the Center...
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A Real-Life Grand Old Party: Help Revive Y!PAC and It's Cocktail Time With...
While it is not unusual for a company in the Internet sector to solicit its employees to voluntarily contribute to its political action committee, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer seems to be putting a very...
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ATD Week in Review: Microsoft Partner Woes and Samsung's Steroid Specs
In case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: Starbucks said it would bring wireless cellphone charging to 10 of its coffee shops in Silicon...
View ArticlePress Problems
I said that I would look into the allegations. I mean, part of the problem here is we get these through the press and then I’ve got to go back and find out what’s going on with respect to these...
View ArticleApple's Chief Lobbyist Nominated for State Department Post
Catherine Novelli, VP of Worldwide Government Affairs for Apple, has been tapped for a State Department post. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama’s administration said it has nominated Novelli to serve...
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AllThingsD Week in Review: New iPads Ahead, HP's "Pivotal Year" and Women at...
In case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: Sources familiar with Apple’s plans told AllThingsD that the company’s fall iPad-update event...
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With MakerBot Academy, the 3-D Printing Movement Aims for Schools
Photo: MakerBotMakerBot, the at-home 3-D printing startup, is angling to appeal to more than just the weekend-warrior, garage-project types: It wants to get inside the classroom. The company announced...
View ArticleQOTD: Why President Obama Can't Play Candy Crush Saga
I’m not allowed for security reasons to have an iPhone. – U.S. President Barack Obama explains his BlackBerry
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Twitter Tells Hashtag Tale of #IranTalks
Not to tout the part it played in a nuclear deal or anything, but in a post on its media blog yesterday, Twitter took a victory lap for its role as a news breaker in the historic agreement by Iran to...
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"Hour of Code" Calls on Students to Program Computers, With Support From...
By now you may have heard about the United States’ woeful lack of public coding classes, despite the economy’s ever-growing need for technical workers. For five years now, Computer Science Education...
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NSA Needs a Zoloft After Obama No-Show, but Here Comes Internet's "Wrecking...
In a fascinating, only-in-the-Beltway story, the Washington Post is reporting that morale at the National Security Agency is in the doldrums over the controversy related to questionable surveillance...
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How Can You Miss Us if We Won't Go Away? Paczkowski and Swisher Highlights...
A day late, but here’s the last installment of highlight posts from AllThingsD staffers, as we reach twilight on Dec. 31 and this site is no more. As one of my fave depressing funeral poems goes: “Do...
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