Viral Video: Apple Innovation, Sparkly Vampires and My Stroke in TEDx Speech

Here’s a video in which I talk about doing “More” and not less, no matter what.
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Exclusive: Silver Lake Finally Signs Yahoo NDA, as Talks Proceed With Bidders

Aggressive private equity firm signs on the secret dotted line it said it would not. Of course.
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AsiaD Adventures, Japan Edition: Walt and Kara Visit Digital Tokyo! (Video)

On our grand tour of Asia, Walt Mossberg and I take a tour of this Japanese city’s digital highlights.
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News Byte

New Tech Gadget News Site Name: The Verge

A new tech site, which has been founded by a number of former staffers of AOL-owned Engadget, will be announcing its new name — The Verge — during an appearance by Editor-in-Chief Josh Topolsky tonight on Jimmy Fallon’s late-night television talk show. The Verge, whose charter sponsor will be BMW, will debut in the fall as a new competing gadget property for the well-funded content start-up SB Nation.

Viral Video: Kimmel’s “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye (to Oprah Winfrey)”

Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel bids farewell to daytime talk show queen Oprah.

Viral Video: Christoph Waltz Slays on "American Idol" (No, Really Slays!)

BoomTown loves the spoof videos that late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel does–Hello, Humpilates!–and this one featuring actor Christoph Waltz is another great one. Waltz always plays scary dudes–usually, some version of a Nazi, if not one, in fact–in movies, and so making him a homicidal judge on the talent show “American Idol” is perfection.

Biz Punches Back at Fortune's Twitter-Bashing (Sort Of!)

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone took time off from his myriad of witty talk show appearances to slap around a just-published Fortune story that was titled–get it?–”Trouble@ Twitter.” Was it a knockout?

Viral Video: Pretty As a Picture, Sweeter Than a Swisher (No, Really)

Here’s Keri Hilson performing “Pretty Girl Rock” on “The Ellen DeGeneres” television talk show. Her hit song has some saucy lyrics, including the refrain: “Pretty as a picture/Sweeter than a Swisher.” Obvi, it is a reference to BoomTown.

Flixster Update: Warner Bros. Very Interested, as Yahoo Drops Out of Bidding for Social Movie Site

Warner Bros. appears to be the frontrunner in various talks to buy Flixster, the social movie site, while Internet giant Yahoo has dropped out due to price concerns. Sources said the reason for interest from the Time Warner-owned studio is due to a spate of recent digital efforts, including its expansion of a movie rental experiment on Facebook.
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Viral Video: "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop" (at SXSW)

Conan O’Brien has been all over the South by Southwest festival this week, hawking a new documentary about his time wandering in the late-night talk television wilderness after he left “The Tonight Show” last year, titled “Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop.” His hysterical journey, of course, was deftly played out by O’Brien all over the Internet, which was definitely on “Team Coco.”

Viral Video: Humpilates Hysterical

Viral Video: Awkward, Party of Aniston

Viral Video: Shazzazz Is Back Doing It

Viral Video: "The View" Vs. "The Talk"

Viral Video: Coco's Back