Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
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Who's meeting the President
The White House has released the official list:
John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo! (YHOO)
John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems (CSCO)
Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter
Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle (ORCL)
Reed Hastings, CEO, NetFlix (NLFX)
John Hennessy, president, Stanford University
Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple (AAPL)
Art Levinson, chairman, Genentech (DNA)
Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google (GOOG)
Steve Westly, managing partner, Westly Group
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, FacebookPresident Obama is scheduled to meet Intel's (INTC) Paul Otellini in Oregon MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 17, 2011 6:23 PM ET -
Today in Tech: iPhone 5 buzz, IBM's Watson on Jeopardy
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
The first (of three) days of Jeopardy featuring the IBM supercomputer Watson as a contestant ended in a tie. Watson and competitor Brad Rutter wrapped up the evening with $5,000 each on the scoreboard, while Ken Jennings, who had bested Watson in the much-publicized practice match, ended up with $2,000. (AllThingsD) AOL CEO Tim Armstrong invested more than $10 million in MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 15, 2011 8:31 AM ETPosted in: AOL, Facebook, Google, Google Chrome, HTC, IBM, iPhone, iPhone 5, Jeopardy, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mobile, Netflix, Tim Armstrong, Watson -
Today in Tech: MySpace layoffs today, Verizon iPhone launch
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
As reported a week ago, MySpace intends to lay off 50%, or between 550 and 600, of its staff today under the guise of restructuring and shedding legacy business divisions. Afterwards, it's expected the struggling social network-turned-entertainment hub will look at sale options. Some possibilities: being picked up by a private equity buyer or even being MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 11, 2011 6:00 AM ET -
John Doerr's quarter-billion dollar bet on the future of social
Kleiner Perkins thinks we're in a third wave of technology. Doerr, Zuckerberg, Bezos and Pincus are throwing a $250 million "party" in order to ride it.
The last time venture capitalist John Doerr opined that a technology wave was about to sweep over the globe it was just before the height of the Internet bubble in the 1990s, when he pronounced that the Internet was under-hyped. Yes, there was Internet startup MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Oct 21, 2010 5:38 PM ET
