Mac World UK (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
iFund manager Matt Murphy notes success of the iPhone iFund manager Matt Murphy claims “the iPhone is the place to be” for mobile content and application development.
Moco News (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Earlier this year, Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) surprised us all when Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers announced it would support the iPhone by creating a standalone $100 million iFund focused on making investments in companies building iPhone applications. Six months later, KPCB has written five checks, and the iPhone has turned out to be a dynamic marketplace with millions of applications being downloaded...
BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Matt Murphy, Media News Group - The leading African American member of Congress said Sen. Barack Obama’s election holds the potential to immediately change the way Americans think about race. “Overnight that will say to every black child, every brown brown child that this country has the ability to get beyond race,” said U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, [...]
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
PALATINE -- When Palatine attorney Matt Murphy was elected as state senator in 2006, he was the Republican Senate caucus’ prize win in a brutal election year. The war in Iraq had turned voters against Republicans nationally, and the state...
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Star-time hubris often seems to block Cotton from finding the joy and/or sadness in songs, but that's not the case here, when he's in the studio next to fellow luminaries Luther Tucker, Matt Murphy, Wayne Bennett, and Hubert Sumlin. The material has been chosen intelligently and performed effectively, highlighted by Cotton's rediscovery of early-1950s Sun gems "Straighten Up Baby" and "Hold Me in...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Matt Murphy is a venture capitalist overseeing the iFund, a $100-million investment fund created earlier this year by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to invest in start-ups specializing in iPhone applications.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
The fan who caught Barry Bonds' record-breaking 756th home run ball last year says it has been the equivalent of a grand slam for him. Matt Murphy, right, used proceeds from the roughly $752,000 sale of the sought-after ball to move into a new apartment, invest in the stock market and go into the specialty sneaker business. He and two friends are opening a Manhattan, N.Y., store called Solefood NYC...
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
A year after emerging from a violent scrum with Barry Bonds' record-breaking home run ball in his hands, Matt Murphy is opening an upscale sneaker shop in Manhattan.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
By Matt Murphy, The Sun, Lowell, Mass. Jul. 30--BOSTON -- Money is flowing in both directions on Beacon Hill in a final flurry of legislative activity.
BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Huge Crowds Left with Mixed Feelings (Mark Waffel and Josh Ward, 7/24/08, Der Spiegel) "I want to be here for our 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech," Julie Hagedorn, 38, a Canadian living with her German husband in Berlin told SPIEGEL ONLINE before the speech. "I want to hear it with my own ears when Obama says 'Ich bin ein Europäer (I am a European)." This sentiment of hoping that the speech would signal...
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
I am hanging out at the MobileBeat conference in Sunnyvale, Calif., today, watching Erick Schonfeld grill panelists on the “Bang or Bust” panel. One of the panelists is Matt Murphy, head of the $100 million iFund at Kleiner, Perkins Caufield & Byers. “We have invested in five companies so far,” he told the room. He named [...]
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Chicago — Today, 9th Senate District nominee Brendan Appel, along with Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica and State Senator Matt Murphy, spoke to concerned citizens at a tax protest, held in front of the James R. Thompson Center, in downtown...
BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Is Europe Repainting Its Nazi Past? (Janet Levy, 6/26/08, American Thinker) In recent years, soccer crowds have gone so far as to simulate the hissing of Nazi gas chambers, pairing the sound with Nazi salutes. In Belgium, Muslim fans at a soccer match between Israel and Belgium shouted "Jews to the gas chambers" and "strangle the Jews," while waving Hamas and Hezbollah flags. Freed from the restraints...
AfterDawn.com (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
ESPN and ABC have announced that they will be adding video content to the Veoh Web video service. The agreement will allow Veoh to present hit shows such as Grey's Anatomy, Lost, Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives, as well as ESPN programming and game highlights. Matt Murphy, the senior vice president for digital media distribution at Disney and ESPN Media Networks, added : These types of...
Between the Lines (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
The day is half complete and I am currently sitting in the back of Matt Murphy’s AutoCAD 2009 class next to AutoCAD master Dan Abbott. I spoke during lunch as the entertainment as well as an example of why you...
