The mogulfest attended by Rupert Murdoch, Sumner Redstone, and the Google guys ceases to be a war of raging egos, descends into a hand-holding, kumbaya-singing commune. [Dealscape]
Google CEO Eric Schmidt surprises reporters at the Idaho mogulfest by joining them for a late-night bull session at the hotel bar. During the hour-long chat, he slams Viacom ("Just look at their history, they built their company on lawsuits") and dismisses Yahoo's Panama advertising system. [NYT]
"We're interchangeable." — Google cofounder Sergey Brin, on why he replaced an ill Larry Page on a panel at this week's Sun Valley confab. [New York Times]
Mark Zuckerberg's substitute player
The moguls wandering through Sun Valley, Idaho, in the hopes of running into Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, will be sorely disappointed. Contrary to reports, he's not attending the conference, appearing instead at Fortune's iMeme conference in San Francisco. Sun Valley will have to settle for Facebook COO Owen Van…
New names attending the mogul confab in Sun Valley, ID this week: Googlers Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Facebook COO Owen Van Natta, and "top executives" from LinkedIn. [Washington Post]
Who's selling, who's buying at the Allen confab?
Sun Valley, the quiet Idaho ski resort town, is about to get a charge from Silicon Valley. Allen & Co., the New York investment bank, has been holding an exclusive conference there for 25 years, but until recently, the invite list has been limited to old-media moguls. On the invite list for this year's conference,…
