's quotes

Former Knight Ridder CEO on Online Advertising

Authored by dmw on July 14, 2006 - 7:07pm.

"I wish we had invented Google."

— Tony Ridder
Former CEO, Knight Ridder
[Source: AP, June 11, 2006]

Craiglist CEO on Newspapers

Authored by dmw on June 19, 2006 - 2:13am.
"The demise of the newspaper has been overstated."
— Jim Buckmaster
CEO, Craigslist

[Source: WSJ, June 17, 2006]

Yahoo CEO on Providing User Data to Chinese Government

Authored by dmw on June 7, 2006 - 10:24am.
"I continue to be pissed off, outraged, and feel very very bad about it. But you have to follow the laws of the country you're in."
— Terry Semel
CEO, Yahoo!

[Source: WSJ, June 1, 2006]

Google Co-Founder on Privacy

Authored by dmw on June 7, 2006 - 10:00am.
"I think it's interesting that the expectations of people with respect to what happens to their data seems to be different than what is actually happening."
— Sergey Brin,
Co-Founder, Google

[Source: AP, June 7, 2006]

Blu-ray Supporter on DVD Format War

Authored by dmw on April 26, 2006 - 12:43pm.
"We are not talking and we will not talk...The market will decide the winner."

— Kazuhiro Tsuga
executive officer, Matsushita

[Source: Reuters]

eMusic CEO on Online Taxation

Authored by dmw on April 18, 2006 - 8:19am.
"We don't use any state or physical resources other than the networks over which the digital goods travel, so it's pretty hard to justify their requirement to tax at the state level on digital sales."

- David Pakman
CEO, eMusic

Senator Biden on Piracy in Russia & China

Authored by dmw on April 6, 2006 - 10:28am.
"Piracy in these countries is largely the result of a lack of political will to confront the problem."
— Joe Biden
US Senator, D-Delaware

[Source: Reuters, April 6, 2006]

McClatchy CEO after Buying Knight-Ridder for $6.5B

Authored by dmw on March 19, 2006 - 1:34pm.

"The fact is, newspapers are still among the best media businesses -- and the most important".

— Gary Pruitt
CEO, The McClatchy Company

[Source: WSJ, March 16, 2006]

CBS Exec on NCAA March "Broadband-ness"

Authored by dmw on March 17, 2006 - 7:18pm.
"What we've done is complement the biggest college sports event of the year with the largest known simultaneous live viewing audience in the history of the Internet for an event of this kind."

— Larry Kramer
President, CBS Digital

[Source: CBS Sportsline, March 16, 2006]