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SB Nation Sacks AOL in Raid of Former Engadget Team for Competing New Tech Site, As AOL Zeroes in on New EiC

Kara Swisher in News on April 3, 2011 at 7:34 pm PT

Jim Bankoff, the fomer AOL exec responsible for buying Engadget for the Internet portal, has grabbed eight staffers who had recently left the huge tech site amid tensions, in order to start a new gadget property for his SB Nation sports and news platform. The site–which is still unnamed and will be run by outgoing Engadget Editor-in-Chief Josh Topolsky–will debut sometime in the fall. Meanwhile, AOL has zeroed in on a new leader to replace Topolsky.

Intern Becomes Real Live Blog Dude–ATD Hires Drake Martinet

Kara Swisher in News on November 9, 2010 at 10:29 am PT

It is always nice when an intern makes good, and that is entirely the case with Drake Martinet, who joins All Things Digital–as of yesterday, in fact. We could not be happier. Plus, we knew he was our kind of geek after he agreed to spend the night in a tent next to Robert Scoble, to cover last year’s Apple iPad release. Drake will be working on a range of things for ATD, from social and multimedia efforts to site analytics to discovering and writing about promising but nascent tech start-ups.

A Media Non-Move: ESPN.com Star Bill Simmons Stays Put

Peter Kafka in Media on October 11, 2010 at 12:19 pm PT

Here’s a variation on the “old media star bails for new media outlet” story–a new media star staying put at the place that made him famous.

New ATD Features: Topic Pages and Finding Jobs (No, Not Steve!)

Kara Swisher in News on June 30, 2009 at 9:57 am PT

Here at All Things Digital, we are always fussing away on our site, making a variety of improvements regularly to make the experience better for our readers. In that vein, we have recently added two new features over the last weeks, which deserve a look-see: Topic pages and job listings. Check them out.

Meet Maureen Dowd’s Favorite Writer: Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall

Peter Kafka in Media on May 18, 2009 at 7:05 am PT

Many of you are just hearing Josh Marshall’s name for the first time, following the New York Times’s admission that columnist Maureen Dowd “failed to attribute” some of her column to him. But that’s a shame because Marshall’s site is noteworthy on its own merits: It’s a self-funded, profitable new-media site that does both blogging/aggregation and real reporting.

Walt Mossberg? We've Got an App for That!

Kara Swisher in News on May 17, 2009 at 8:09 pm PT

That would be Walt Mossberg and his well-known Personal Technology and Mossberg Mailbox columns–as well as BoomTown, John Paczkowski’s Digital Daily, Peter Kafka’s MediaMemo, Katherine Boehret’s Mossberg Solution and video and pictures from our famous D: All Things Digital conferences. Today, All Things Digital is introducing its very own app for Apple’s iPhone and the iPod touch, offering all the posts and columns you get on this Web site–including news, product reviews, analysis and video–from our crack team. Just smaller and cuter. So download us and take us along everywhere you go–ATD really enjoys long walks on the beach.

BoomTown Asks "Ask Amy" for Some Web Advice

Kara Swisher in News on May 9, 2009 at 6:53 pm PT

Several years ago, my longtime friend and colleague Amy Dickinson suddenly became, well, Ann Landers. Well, not exactly Ann herself, as that would be weird–but she took over the famous syndicated advice column in the Chicago Tribune, which changed the name to “Ask Amy.” So, BoomTown did just that on my recent visit to Chicago, interviewing Dickinson about what questions she gets about the Internet from readers.