Brainstorm Tech 2010

VC stunner: Nothing is overhyped

Enterprise, mobile, China, storage and social -- so many places to deploy cash.

Fortune's Michael Copleand opened his venture-capital panel at Fortune Brainstorm Tech Friday afternoon with a fun round-robin question: Name one sector that is overhyped or underhyped.  Shockingly, the six-member panel found nothing whatsoever that is overhyped. Only the opposite. VCs, after all, are congenital optimists.

Jerry Murdock of Insight Ventures, and investor in Twitter, thinks social media is underhyped. MORE

Should Major League Baseball content providers charge one price for all?

If it doesn't find a solution, the MLB could find itself with a consumer riot.

By Kevin Maney, contributor

From Major League Baseball's point of view, content providers are going to have to figure out how to charge one price for aggregated packages of content. Otherwise, consumers are going to rebel against "a la carte creep," said MLB.com CEO Bob Bowman in a lunch session at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference.

"It's not that MORE

IAC's Barry Diller: Not everything has to be Twitter

Diller says his websites didn't miss the social media wave because not everyone has to ride it.

By Shelley DuBois, reporter

Barry Diller's sitting on some prime, if diverse, Internet real estate. His company, IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI), owns Match.com, Ask.com, Citysearch, and about 50 other sites that seem like they could create the kind of digital sharefest communities that Facebook and Twitter have built.

But IAC didn't miss the boat, Diller said at Fortune's MORE

Non-profits to tech: We need your brainpower...and money, too.

Philanthropists say tech companies can help with BHAGs (That's Big, Hairy Audacious Goals)

A panel of non-profit and foundation executives urged the technology community to provide educational and philanthropic institutions and others with its entrepreneurial and business-building know-how, in addition to increasing its financial contributions.

"What the tech world and entrepreneurs and VCs, they're not afraid of BHAGs -- Big Hairy Audacious Goals," says John Wood, a former Microsoft (MSFT) executive and MORE

Google says there's plenty of search for everyone

Google's president of global sales operations, Nikesh Arora says that healthy competition from Twitter and Facebook is a good thing.

By Shelley DuBois, reporter

Search giant Google (GOOG)  has started hearing footsteps as Twitter and Facebook are becoming bigger and bigger presences in search. But Google's president of global search operations, Nikesh Arora isn't worried.

"Look, I think it's a good thing if people are searching on multiple places for information," MORE

AT&T on fiber network: It just takes time

More spectrum in New York and fiber efforts are underway, but 'it's a process.'

by Laura Rich, contributor

The world will have to wait for sharper barbs between Apple and AT&T (ATT) over who's to blame for dropped calls on the iPhone. In an appearance at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen on Friday, AT&T mobility and consumer markets president and CEO Ralph de la Vega was succinctly complimentary about its MORE

Does the Internet know you too well?

By Patricia Sellers, editor at large

Creepy. The word was tossed around a dozen times in a morning session called "Hyper-Personalization" at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference.

If you think that the Internet knows too much about you -- that you like United vs. Delta, the Yankees vs. the Mets, and that you're hunting for a new job -- just you wait. Right now, the Internet is in the primitive MORE

When it comes to acquistion plans, it's Oracle vs Oracle

Just how much is Oracle going to spend to consolidate the tech industry? Apparently Oracle isn't sure.

By Laura Rich, contributor

At the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen on Thursday, Oracle President Charles Phillips declared that "we'll probably double what we spent on acquisitions" over the next five years compared to the last five. That would total roughly $70 billion, a dollar figure that had his interviewer, Fortune's Adam Lashinsky, MORE

Clicker 2.0: the web's tv guide goes social

So it's two days before the season debut of Mad Men and you're craving your Don Draper fix. Did you know AMC just made last year's season finale available for free on the web? You would if you were connected to Jim Lanzone on Clicker. The former Ask.com CEO debuted his online TV guide's newest set of features for the first time publicly at Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Aspen.

With Clicker MORE

Live Nation's Azoff goes on the defensive, again

Revenue is down, the music business is a mess and the scalpers just won't let up

by Laura Rich, contributor

Irving Azoff has his back up against a wall. The Live Nation (LYV) CEO faces declining ticket sales at the concerts his company produces and his company's 2009 revenue was down well below expectations at $365 million from $450 million the year before.

What's more, he doesn't trust the numbers about concert tours MORE