Posted at 8:20 AM PT
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 in 1994, using his theories about leveraging the Web to move goods around more efficiently. While the company has had some bumps along the way and has morphed its businesses relentlessly, it has defied its critics and has become the most significant online retailer in the world. But Amazon is not without its challenges, in the market for digital media downloads, where Apple is market leader.
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Posted at 5:20 AM PT 
Here’s a video clip of the Windows 7 Touch demo that was shown during the Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer session at D6.
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Posted at 5:07 AM PT
I’ve been receiving quite a few messages about Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates’s “monopolies” comment, which we’ve been running in the quote box on our D6 Highlights page. For the curious, here’s a quick recap of the exchange that led up to it.
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Posted at 11:25 PM PT
Here are a few video highlights from the second half of the D6 interview of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer, conducted by conference co-hosts Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg.
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Posted at 11:22 PM PT
Here are a few video highlights from the first half of the D6 interview of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer, conducted by conference co-hosts Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg.
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Posted at 6:25 PM PT
With Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates soon relinquishing his daily role at the software company he co-founded as it grapples with Google, European regulators, Yahoo and Windows Vista critics, tonight’s conversation with Gates and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will be a memorable one.
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Posted at 6:24 PM PT
To conclude the first evening at D6, Intel sponsored the nightcap gathering in the Four Seasons Aviara Lobby Lounge and Library, featuring a Skyy vodka ice bar and a martini luge.
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Posted at 6:20 PM PT
Following the session with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, D6 attendees enjoyed dinner in the Palm Courtyard of the hotel, using the occasion to greet friends and network with colleagues.
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Posted at 6:09 PM PT
And so it begins. The attendees have been steadily arriving at the Four Seasons Resort Aviara today. After stashing their great swag in their rooms, they’ve gathered at the welcome reception in the hotel.
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Posted at 2:37 PM PT
So those rumors about Microsoft Windows 7 making an early debut at D6?
They’re true. During tonight’s interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates, Microsoft will demonstrate Windows 7’s all new user interface.
Check back here this evening for exclusive all-access coverage of the announcement.
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Posted at 1:36 PM PT
What’s in the D6 swag bag this year? Sadly, the Microsoft-Yahoo Edition Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots we’d hoped for didn’t come through. That said, we did manage to compile a nice selection of goods from the kind folks at Activision (ATVI), Jawbone and PEZ, among others.
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Posted at 11:51 AM PT
The first annual golf tournament at D6 is under way! Heavy hitters and hackers are out in force on the beautiful Four Seasons Resort Aviara Golf Club in Carlsbad, Calif.
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Posted at 3:54 PM PT
As it turns out, creating a start-up is kind of hard.
And, trying to be entrepreneurial 24/7 is definitely challenging.
And, attempting to drastically shift your paradigm and move into new arenas with even newer rules and lots of uncertainty? Let’s just say, we are very tired these days.
In all seriousness, it has been just over a year since we and our hardy little team launched AllThingsD.com, our earnest effort to take the D conference we created six years ago and give it another life on the Web.
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