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Posted: Sep 4 2008 4:17PM EDT

Google's Cash Cow: You

Google doesn't sell software or hardware or content. It sells you -- or, slightly more precisely, its ability to understand your habits and deliver your attention to particular advertisers. And because of this, I am just a touch nervous about installing Chrome, its new browser soft ... Continue

Posted: Aug 28 2008 4:21PM EDT

Bob Rice Blogs: A Beautiful Irony--V.C.'s Displaced By Technology

What's wrong with the industry is this: These days, it's just too cheap to start new companies ... Continue

Posted: Aug 28 2008 2:04PM EDT

Bob Rice Blogs: Late Summer Here, and in Googleville

As I see it, the summer solstice has passed not just for us, but for Google too. Three reasons why ... Continue

Posted: Aug 28 2008 10:15AM EDT

Bob Rice Blogs: AT&T v. Verizon. Who's the Pawn?

Great moves most certainly are not found, or disproven, by crunching numbers ... Continue

Posted: Aug 27 2008 6:00PM EDT

Celebrity Blog: Bob Rice on Portfolio.com Thursday

Bob Rice, this week's Playa, has had many careers. He was an attorney with the U.S. Justice Dept., a partner at law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, a CEO of tech startup and now runs merchant bank Tangent Capital, which he founded in 205 ... Continue

Posted: Aug 21 2008 8:00PM EDT

Glenn Beck Blogs: Long Hours, the FCC and Obama

I want to finish by answering a few of the questions that some of you posted earlier ... Continue

Posted: Aug 21 2008 5:01PM EDT

Glenn Beck Blogs: Management on the Fly

I'm a self-educated guy. I certainly have less official business schooling than anyone who has ever written anything for Portfolio ... Continue

Posted: Aug 21 2008 2:35PM EDT

Glenn Beck Blogs: The B-School of Scandal

My brand is based on making the news interesting, relatable, and funny ... Continue

Posted: Aug 21 2008 8:30AM EDT

Glenn Beck Blogs: On Radio, Platforms, and the Value of Rush Limbaugh

My politics only influence my business in the sense that I run it the way I expect conservative politicians to run our government ... Continue

Posted: Aug 20 2008 4:12PM EDT

Celebrity Blog: Glenn Beck on Portfolio.com Thursday

Television host and conservative pundit Glenn Beck challenges everything from politics to political correctness on his hour-long CNN Headline News show ... Continue

Posted: Aug 14 2008 2:17PM EDT

Ford Models' John Caplan Blogs: Looking for the Perfect Fit

We don't hire jerks. This may seem obvious that working in an organization with good people gets better results, but you'd be surprised by some of the people the modeling industry attract ... Continue

Posted: Aug 13 2008 9:36AM EDT

Ford Models' John Caplan Blogs: The Beauty of Innovation

If you're like most of the people I meet, you probably imagine beautiful models, exotic travel, time spent with the most creative and innovative people in the fashion and beauty worlds ... Continue

Posted: Jul 31 2008 2:47PM EDT

Christie Hefner Blogs: Obama's Anything but Orthodox

Critics have mocked his language of change as being nothing more than soaring rhetoric but he regularly charts a course that eschews the orthodoxy of either party ... Continue

Posted: Jul 31 2008 11:32AM EDT

Christie Hefner Blogs: Will Newspapers Learn? Or Die?

When people say to me that "newspapers are dead, they just don't know it yet," I wonder if the industry has simply failed to find a new business model ... Continue

Posted: Jul 30 2008 5:45PM EDT

Christie Hefner Blogs: Thursday on Portfolio.com

Christie Hefner has had to face challenges from rivals as disparate as YouTube and the lad mags while expanding the Playboy empire into e-commerce and international markets ... Continue

Posted: Jul 24 2008 9:14PM EDT

Responding to Commenters' Questions

Harvey Weinstein talks about grappling with the changing viewing habits of moviegoers ... Continue
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Posted: Jul 24 2008 6:02PM EDT

On the Soapbox: Time for Obama

Harvey Weinstein says that even as a devoted Clinton supporter, he'll be rallying his friends and working to raise money for Obama ... Continue
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Posted: Jul 24 2008 2:11PM EDT

Theatrical Release

Harvey Weinstein says he may have run from his first Broadway show, but now he's rushing toward underappreciated live theater with some big names ... Continue
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Posted: Jul 24 2008 9:45AM EDT

Indies v. Superheroes and Starlets

There have been a number of recent articles accusing me of not focusing on films like I did when I was running Miramax. It's simply not the case. During a summer of hyped-comic book heroes, independent film as a whole hasn't received the attention its due ... Continue
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