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David Kirkpatrick
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David Kirkpatrick

David Kirkpatrick was for many years the senior editor for internet and technology at Fortune magazine. While at Fortune, he wrote cover stories about Apple, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sun, and numerous other technology subjects. Beginning in 2001, he created Fortune’s Brainstorm conference series. More recently, he organized the Techonomy conference on the centrality of technology innovation for all human activity. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and appears frequently on television, radio, and the Internet as an expert on technology.

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Rock Hill Herald, April 18, 2012
...goes through a landmark initial public offering of stock this year. "It's a quasi-religious iconoclasm," said David Kirkpatrick, author of "The Facebook Effect," a 2010 book about the rise of the social network. "Facebook takes its culture deadly...
Haaretz, April 11, 2012
...uprising, and was now on his way home. The first time he entered, according to his Times colleague David Kirkpatrick, the Syrian government had broadcast his picture on the news and accused him of being an Israeli spy. Shadid returned, guided by...
Rock Hill Herald, February 8, 2012
...public company like none the world has seen. "He's still the same guy he was," said David Kirkpatrick, author of "The Facebook Effect." "He has been able to retain his humanity and not become an arrogant jerk, even though he has every right to be."...
Reuters, February 8, 2012
...out of China for nearly three years. But it will be back, says author of The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick. (SOUNDBITE) (English) AUTHOR OF THE FACEBOOK EFFECT, DAVID KIRKPATRICK, SAYING: "Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be the communications...
Forbes.com, February 3, 2012
...promote the integration of technology with business and social progress. The company was founded by longtime technology journalist David Kirkpatrick, along with Mike Federle, the former publisher of Fortune Magazine, and Simone Ross, former program...
Forbes.com, February 3, 2012
...to submit their research for publication there or to edit or referee Elsevier articles. The campaign supports predictions David Kirkpatrick made  in a Forbes cover story last September, “Social Power and the Coming Corporate Revolution,” about the...
The Olympian, January 27, 2012
...he was just 22 is unlikely to change his independent stripe even after ringing the opening bell, said David Kirkpatrick, author of "The Facebook Effect." Being publicly traded will bring heavier scrutiny from regulators alarmed at how Facebook handles...
Forbes.com, March 1, 2012
...Bailout Bounce Over: Detroit's Task Gets Tougher Micheline Maynard Contributor How Facebook Friended Ford David Kirkpatrick Contributor How GM And Peugeot Can Help Each Other Micheline Maynard Contributor The U.S. auto industry had a big...
Forbes.com, February 29, 2012
...promote the integration of technology with business and social progress. The company was founded by longtime technology journalist David Kirkpatrick, along with Mike Federle, the former publisher of Fortune Magazine, and Simone Ross, former program...
Business Insider, February 28, 2012
...moments later. Here are two pieces of data to support that theory: In his book, The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick says when Facebook first started allowing users to tag each other in photos in 2006, user engagement took off like a rocket....
IOL, February 28, 2012
...unexpected interactions and conversations that make the conference in Davos what it is. One such interaction was with David Kirkpatrick, the author of The Facebook Effect, who has an acute appreciation of the cosmic shift that happens when the average...
South Africa Star, February 28, 2012
...but through those unexpected interactions and conversations that make Davos what it is. One such interaction was with David Kirkpatrick, the author of The Facebook Effect, who has an acute appreciation of the cosmic shift that happens when the average...
IOL, February 28, 2012
...but through those unexpected interactions and conversations that make Davos what it is. One such interaction was with David Kirkpatrick, the author of The Facebook Effect, who has an acute appreciation of the cosmic shift that happens when the average...
Star Canterbury, February 26, 2012
...narrowing roads, removing cycle lanes and increasing the number of houses in the subdivision. But city council commissioner David Kirkpatrick ruled last July that changes in land use and consents "would not be more than minor" and dismissed residents'...