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Microsoft Expected to Debut Updated Search Engine at D: All Things Digital

John Paczkowski in News on May 19, 2009 at 3:40 pm PT

The long-awaited upgrade to Microsoft’s search engine will soon make its debut. Sources with knowledge of the situation said the company is expected to demonstrate it at our D: All Things Digital conference next week. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is scheduled to appear onstage at the event, a three-day event that hosts top players from the tech and media industries in interviews by All Things Digital Co-executive Editors Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Code-named “Kumo,” the search engine is Microsoft’s effort to raise its hand to table stakes in the battle for search market share with Google.

The ATD Annual Meatfest: The Econalypse Edition

Kara Swisher in News on November 17, 2008 at 1:50 am PT

Here’s a lovely video from a dinner All Things Digital held last night for the staff of both our annual D: All Things Digital conference and the AllThingsD.com Web site. It’s a yearly dinner event where Walt Mossberg and I gather our staff to talk about the upcoming year and plans going forward.

The AllThingsD.com Staff Begs for DonorsChoose.org!

Kara Swisher in News on October 30, 2008 at 5:37 pm PT

Only 24 hours to go in the DonorsChoose.org’s Blogger Challenge 2008 and I am now forced to bring in the big guns. That would be the angrily arched eyebrows of Digital Daily’s John “Patches” Paczkowski, along some of the AllThingsD.com staff, begging mightily for your donations. Uh-oh!

Peter Kafka Takes On the Mediamorphosis in New ATD MediaMemo Blog

Kara Swisher in News on October 27, 2008 at 3:10 am PT

Oh, BoomTown could not resist making the obvious literary pun on the debut of Peter Kafka’s new daily blog, MediaMemo, on AllThingsD.com. I am referencing, of course, Franz Kafka’s famous 1915 novella, “Metamorphosis,” about a man who turns into a bug–except that the transformation is fraught with so much more meaning. And thus it will be in Peter’s column, as the most excellent writer and reporter plunges into the topic–as he writes in his first explanatory post–of “the ongoing battle between the established media business and the technology that is reshaping it day by day.”

My Favorite Subject: You

Peter Kafka in Media on October 27, 2008 at 3:00 am PT

Hi there. Welcome to a new blog/column/site/space carved out for me by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, who’ve invited me to join the AllThingsD.com team. I hope that MediaMemo is descriptive enough of a name. But in case you’re wondering: I’ll be writing, frequently, about the ongoing battle between the established media business and the technology that is reshaping it day by day. It’s a pretty big beat, and an exciting one.

Live From New York: ATD Hires Peter Kafka to Pen a New Media and Advertising Blog

Kara Swisher in News on September 18, 2008 at 12:11 am PT

Although we did not raid the offices of Silicon Alley Insider and “steal” Peter Kafka, as the fanciful SAI kingpin Henry Blodget alleges–had it been a raid, BoomTown would have properly hog-tied Blodget so he could not make such spurious allegations!–it is true that SAI’s current managing editor (pictured here) will be coming to work for us at AllThingD.com soon. He will write a daily still-unnamed new media blog from New York City, starting at the end of October.

Welcome to ATD, Therese–and a Belated Welcome to Eric

Kara Swisher in News on June 19, 2008 at 12:39 am PT

As readers of AllThingsD.com might have noticed, we added columnist Therese Poletti to the main rail of the site today. Her twice-weekly column, Tech Tales, which appears on MarketWatch on Tuesdays and Thursdays, will also be published here too. Poletti joins Eric Savitz of Barron’s, whose posts on his Tech Trader Daily blog about tech stocks have been appearing on the front of ATD several times a day for the past month.