TED Again: Iconic Conference Kicks Off 2011 With Gates, a Data Artist and a Wrongologist!

Today, the formal program at the famous TED conference begins and runs to Friday, with the theme title: "The Rediscovery of Wonder."

And, in fact, you might wonder how good a conference has to be for BoomTown to miss the Apple iPad 2 launch in San Francisco tomorrow?

That good.

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Consumer Sentiment increases in February

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Marketing

You asked for it Arnold and 84 others (so far). So I'm gonna talk about marketing. I believe that marketing is what you do when your product or service sucks or when you make so much profit on every marginal...

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Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs Talks Firefox 4, Competition With Google's Chrome and More! (Video)

Yesterday, BoomTown paid a long overdue visit on the Mountain View, Calif., HQ of Mozilla, the unusual public-private company that makes the Firefox browser, to chat with its (relatively) new CEO Gary Kovacs (pictured here).

There is a lot to talk about with the new exec, especially the near-to-official launch of Firefox 4, the increasing competition with Google and its Chrome efforts and where Mozilla goes next (mobile).

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Big Banks Warn of Mortgage Servicer Settlement Costs

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Google Mail Outage Leaves 120,000+ Users Stranded

If you use Gmail, and your Google mail didn't work starting yesterday, you may be one of the 120,000 or so users left stranded by a Gmail outage. Engadget has more: If you've got a working Gmail account, you might want to back it up every so... Read more

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