Founder of Techonomy, David Kirkpatrick is a journalist, commentator about technology, and author of the bestselling book “The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World,” published in 2010 by Simon & Schuster. He founded and hosted Fortune’s Brainstorm and Brainstorm Tech conferences 2001-2009. In addition to his writing for Techonomy, he writes occasionally for The Daily Beast and Vanity Fair.
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Zuckerberg’s Regulatory About-Face
April 2, 2019AI Leaders Say Business Is Ready
April 1, 2019Why Banks Could Be Your Ally for Managing Identity
March 10, 2019Zuckerberg’s Privacy Contradictions
March 7, 2019The Internet Civil War
February 25, 2019My Trump-Era Davos Takeaways: Optimism on UN & Climate
January 30, 2019David Kirkpatrick’s Travel Journal: JFK-SIN-MUC, Facebook, Sandberg
January 22, 2019Study: AI Fears Diminish, But People Seek Help Reskilling
January 21, 2019What Will 5G Mean?
January 7, 2019Interview with Verizon CEO Vestberg: It’s All About 5G
January 4, 2019Our Theme for 2019: Collaborating for Responsible Growth
January 3, 2019Jeffrey Sachs Gets Heat for Defending Huawei
January 3, 2019What We Learned at Our Conference in a Fraught Time
November 26, 2018How Trump’s Top Tech Advisor Aims to Keep the US Innovative
November 9, 2018Resilience is Key to Modern Leadership
November 8, 2018Is Yeast the Future of Manufacturing?
November 8, 2018Tomorrow’s Midterms and Next Week’s Techonomy Conference
November 5, 2018Facing Facebook’s Failure
November 1, 2018Will Software Robots Make Your Job Less Boring?
October 5, 2018We Love Big Questions. It’s the Answers that are Hard.
September 10, 2018
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