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We attended a party hosted by publisher Phaidon at Thomas Keller's Per Se Restaurant to honor
Chef Ferran Adria on the publication of "A Day at El Bulli", a 500 page exploration of the art of
cuisine at his temple of gastronomy. The event drew a crowd of America's culinary elite, who
sipped Cava and sampled Per Se's best hors d'oeuvres. Among the attendees were many of America's
top chefs, who were thrilled to support Chef Adria. (See if you can spot them all!) A production
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Activision Publishing, Inc. announced today that Secret Service will be released later this year
for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 2 computer
entertainment system, and PC. The title will allow players to assume the role of an elite agent,
tasked with protecting America's top leadership.
Michael Arrington /
TechCrunch: Team
Cyprus Move To Undo “The Video” — A group of twenty or
so tech elite were partying 1999-style in Cyprusthis last week, and posted a lip sync video of
the Journey song “Don't Stop Believing” a couple of days ago. Among the group
were Brittany Bohnet of Google, Mike Hudack of Blip.tv …
A group of twenty or so tech elite partying 1999-style in Cyprus this last week posted a lip sync
video of the Journey song “Don’t Stop Believing” a couple of days ago. Among
the group were Brittany Bohnet of Google, Mike Hudack of Blip.tv, Dave Morin and Aaron Sittig of
Facebook, Sam Lessin of Drop.io and Jessica Vascellaro, the Wall Street Journal’s Silicon
Valley beat reporter.
Now that video has been taken private, which is what
it should have been marked as in the first place. But it’s too late - the video has spread
to YouTube and other sites, and won’t be disappearing again. As I said yesterday, fair or
not the video video will always be associated with the end of Web 2.0.
I’m off to Hawaii myself next week, after a quick trip to London. I may be lip syncing a
few songs while sipping fruity rum drinks, but you sure won’t be finding them on YouTube.
Crunch Network: MobileCrunch
Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
Russia’s richest men have lost an estimated $230 billion as stock markets around the world
have gone into meltdown. The country$’s elite, including Roman Abramovich, the owner of
Chelsea Football Club, have lost billions in the financial crisis. Bloomberg, the financial news
service, estimated yesterday that Mr Abramovich had lost more than $20 billion ($£11.7
billion). Other big losers include Oleg Deripaska, who has been described as Russia’s richest
man with, at one point, a fortune of $28 billion. The sudden reduction in the wealth of the
oligarchs could have an impact on London, which has become a home away from home for many of the
billionaires. A large number, including Mr Deripaska and Mr Abramovich, have multimillion-pound
properties in London and the surrounding counties. Analysts familiar with Russia$’s leading
businessmen believe that they will hold on to these as a way of keeping wealth outside of the
Kremlin’s control. However, estate agents in Chelsea and Kensington are unlikely to see many
Russian buyers in the coming months. Mr Abramovich has seen the value of his investment in Evraz, a
steel producer, fall dramatically amid fears of a global recession. Mr Abramovich owns 40 per cent
of Evraz, which is partially listed in London, and the company’s share price has fallen from
a high of $131 this year to $14. This has effectively wiped $20 billion off the value of Mr
Abramovich$’s holding. This paper loss will become actual only if the oligarch is forced to
sell his shares. Russia’s stock market has been particularly badly hit because of its
exposure to large resource companies such as Evraz. It has fallen 61 per cent since hitting a peak
in May. As the global economy slows, there will be less demand for raw materials such as steel,
aluminium, oil and gas, and companies in these sectors have seen their share prices collapse.
“They should take us all off the Forbes list [of billionaires],” said Alexander Lebedev
this week. Mr Lebedev owns 30 per cent of Aeroflot, the Russian airline. In his Moscow office
yesterday Mr Lebedev, who has lost around half his estimated $3.1billion wealth in the stockmarket
plunge, said the financial pinch may bring some sanity to the lives of the oligarchs. $“The
bell has started to ring,” the man ranked by Forbes as the world’s 358th richest said.
“I can only pin my hopes that what the people call a crisis will be a cold shower for a lot
of hotheads in the Forbes list here. “If someone isn’t able to buy a Bentley, or if
some government bureaucrat has to sell his Gulfstream jet for $50 million of his hardworking money
. . . that$’s a good thing.” Nikolai Uskov, editor-in-chief of GQ magazine’s
Russian language edition, said the oligarchs would find it difficult to stop spending. “If
you want to buy new watches and you have the money, you’ll keep buying them. I think they
won’t care about another $10,000 or $20,000 even during a crisis time.$” The full scale
of Mr Deripaska’s problems emerged this week as creditors began to call in loans that the
billionaire had taken out to finance expansion of his global aluminium-to-car parts empire.
Yesterday he was forced to sell his 9.9 per cent stake in Hochtief, the German infrastructure
company. He is thought to have sold this stake for 70 per cent less than he paid for it earlier in
the year, a loss of about €350 million. His Basic Element investment vehicle was
forced into the firesale of shares because it had used them as collateral on debt. Once the value
of the shares fell, creditors made a margin call and he was forced to sell. Mr Deripaska, who also
owns the Leyland Daf (LDV) van company, was forced to hand over a $1.4 billion stake in Magna, a
Canadian car parts company, to creditors this week. A 25 per cent stake in Norilsk Nickel, owned by
his aluminium company, Rusal, has fallen in value from $13 billion to $3.4 billion since he bought
it.$
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