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Viral Video: Steven Spielberg Really Is a Geek

Kara Swisher in Media on January 24 at 1:22 am PT

And that’s meant as a compliment.

Introducing Lauren Goode

Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher in Walt Mossberg on December 1, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Meet our newest AllThingsD writer, who will cover consumer tech products and issues.

Exclusive: MSN U.S. Head Scott Moore to Depart Portal

Kara Swisher in News on October 20, 2011 at 2:51 am PT

Scott Moore, who runs the U.S. arm of Microsoft’s MSN portal, is leaving the building. Thank you very much.

Viral Video: The CGI in “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” Raises Big Box Office

Kara Swisher in Media on August 8, 2011 at 2:41 am PT

Take your stinking paws off me, you damned cash-generating ape movie.

Yahoo's (and Associated Content Founder) Luke Beatty Talks About Google's Content Farm Putsch

Kara Swisher in News on February 28, 2011 at 8:02 am PT

Yahoo’s Luke Beatty said he is not worried. “We welcome the change,” he insisted about Google taking aim last Friday at so-called “content farms,” producers of low-quality content that spam up the Web and the search giant’s results. “And we endorse what Google is doing 100 percent.” That’s ironic, given among those allegedly hit hardest by the tweaking of its famous algorithm–based on early, and perhaps questionable, surveys–is Yahoo’s Associated Content. Its founder talked to BoomTown about the impact.

YouTube Hands Out $500,000 to Video Makers, Prepares to Spend a Whole Lot More on Next New Networks

Peter Kafka in Media on December 22, 2010 at 3:38 pm PT

Google hands out 500 $1,000 checks to video makers who make cheap, popular clips. It will spend many times that amount to acquire Next New Networks, which specializes in…cheap, popular clips.

Oscar Bouquets for "The Social Network," as Zuckerberg Readies for the Brickbats

Kara Swisher in News on September 17, 2010 at 5:14 am PT

It’s just a post on the popular entertainment blog “Deadline Hollywood.” But it’s a clear indication the makers of the movie about the origins of Facebook are gunning for maximum attention and Oscar buzz with only a few weeks to go before its debut. And they will further gas up the marketing machine for “The Social Network” more, even though it appears it will be devastating to the real-life version of its main subject, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Why TV Still Won’t Embrace the Web Quite Yet

Peter Kafka in Media on June 8, 2010 at 6:30 am PT

You know the answer, right? But just to spell it out: Even two million Hulu eyeballs a week don’t mean much for a hit TV show like “Modern Family.”

Forbes Buys True/Slant

Peter Kafka in Media on May 25, 2010 at 8:42 am PT

That was fast. And not that surprising: Forbes Media, which invested in digital news start-up True/Slant two years ago and brought on founder Lewis Dvorkin as a “consultant” this spring, has now bought the entire company. Dvorkin’s new title is chief product officer.

Blip.TV Raises $10 Million for More Web Video You (Probably) Won’t See on Hulu

Peter Kafka in Media on May 19, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

It’s no YouTube, but Blip.TV is turning five, too. That’s impressive enough for any Web video outfit, but CEO Mike Hudack also has a good story to tell: He’s figuring out how to make money from the clips small-time producers make–and how to get the producers enough money to make more clips. Repeat.