The Wall Street Journal’s series about the “final days” of Bear Stearns concludes today. The highlight of the last installment is the level of involvement Hank Paulson took in not just brokering the deal, but determining the price JPMorgan would

At the All Things D conference Wednesday night, Jerry Yang reiterated what Steve Ballmer said the night before: Yahoo and Microsoft are talking, but not about an all-out acquisition of Tech Ticker’s parent.Meanwhile,

Before Nathan Myhrvold founded Intellectual Ventures, a private company devoted to ideas and patents, the inventor-archeologist-chef spent more than 10 years at Microsoft. In part two of my one-on-one with Myhrvold, we discuss Microsoft, Bi

After retiring from his position as chief strategist and chief technology officer of Microsoft in 1999, Nathan Myhrvold founded Intellectual Ventures, a private company that’s devoted to nurturing and creating patents and inventions.In my one-on

From John Paczkowski, All Things D, May 28, 2008:As chairman and CEO of News Corp. (NWS), Rupert Murdoch commands what may be the world’s most powerful media empire, spanning movie studios, television networks, newspapers and a growing stable of Int

From John Paczkowski, All Things D, May 28, 2008: Because Mark Zuckerberg is barely in his mid-20s, his résumé is a bit thinner than others here. Well, except for his first job as founder and CEO of Facebook, perhaps the most explosively pop

From John Paczkowski, All Things D, May 28, 2008: After retiring from his position as chief strategist and chief technology officer of Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold founded Intellectual Ventures, a company that is assembling a large body of patents and inven

From John Paczkowski, All Things D, May 28, 2008:While Jeff Bewkes only recently became president and CEO of the media behemoth at the beginning of this year, he has long been an influential executive at Time Warner (TWX) HQ. Mr. Bewkes has been COO, as w

When Walt Mossberg speaks, people listen. Here, you can listen (and watch) as “Uncle Walt” gives his views on Windows 7, the Microsoft-Yahoo-Google negotiations, the latest developments at

From John Paczkowski, All Things D, May 28, 2008: Jerry Yang is one of the best-known of the Web’s early Internet entrepreneurs. A Taiwan native, Mr. Yang was raised in the Silicon Valley area. He created Yahoo (YHOO) with David Filo in 1994 as a gr

From All Things Digital, May 28, 2008: Jeff Bezos is among the Internet’s true pioneers and visionaries, creating one of the Web’s greatest brands and one of its most enduring companies. He founded Amazon (AMZN) in 1994, usi

From John Paczkowski, All Things Digital, May 28, 2008:Sir Howard Stringer has been chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Corporation (SNE) since June 2005. He is the first non-Japanese leader of this global manufacturer of audio