You Can Handle the Truth: Aaron Sorkin to Appear Onstage at D10

You know who’s cool? The screenwriter of “The Social Network.”
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Welcome to ATD: The Very Social Mike Isaac

A new reporter to cover social, while a current one looks hard at what it takes to innovate and more.
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QOTD: Forget the Tabloid Crap — It’s Time for Fancy Tabloid Crap!

Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

– Nick Denton, in his memo to staff on the Gawker empire in 2012

On The Verge of a New Tech Site, Which Finally Debuts

Tonight at 1 am PT, techies who have nothing else to do — that would be me! — can click onto a brand new tech site called The Verge.
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Sister on Steve Jobs’s Last Words: “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”

Apple co-founder and Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs lived a life that read like an epic novel, so it’s should be no surprise that his very last words on this temporal plane would be just as dramatic.
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Viral Video: Me and My CrunchFund Shadow on Bloomberg West

The controversial new investment fund by Silicon Valley’s tech blogging kingpin is, well, controversial.
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The Future of Social Media at AllThingsD

AllThingsD has undergone a few changes to the social media on our site, including adding a social media editor, Drake Martinet.
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Former Top Editor Makes Another Talent Raid on AOL’s Engadget for New Competing Gadget Site

I love the smell of blog wars in the morning! Acting as Facebook often does to Google, a new site started by former Engadget editor Josh Topolsky just hired away yet another passel of tech journalists from the giant gadgets news and reviews organization. It is Topolsky’s second major talent raid since he left his editor-in-chief job there in March, for a new gadget property aimed at unseating Engadget.
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Liveblogging Demand Media's Q1 Earnings: Perky Perfecting!

Today, after Demand Media beat Wall Street expectations, its cheerful execs got on the horn with investors to explain how it plans to beat the Panda. That would be the beastly name for Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm, in order to rid search results of poor quality content. BoomTown liveblogged the event, of course.

Demand Media Beats the Street in Q1 Earnings and Promises to Clean Up Its Content Act

Demand Media handily beat Wall Street expectations in its first quarter results today, released after the market closed. The company reported revenue of $79.5 million and six cents a share in adjusted net income. Investors were expecting the company to report about $69.6 million in revenue for the three months, with four cents a share in profits. On a GAAP basis, net loss per share was 13 cents compared to 94 cents a year ago.

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