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
Kara Swisher in Media on October 31, 2011 at 7:18 pm PT
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.
Kara Swisher in News on October 30, 2011 at 12:50 pm PT
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.
Kara Swisher in News on September 3, 2011 at 8:33 am PT
The controversial new investment fund by Silicon Valley’s tech blogging kingpin is, well, controversial.
Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg in News on August 15, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
AllThingsD has undergone a few changes to the social media on our site, including adding a social media editor, Drake Martinet.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 7, 2011 at 9:24 am PT
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.
Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 2:13 pm PT
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.
Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT
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.
Kara Swisher in News on April 6, 2011 at 1:28 pm PT
Yesterday, AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group got into hot water after the top editor at its Moviefone unit sent a memo to freelancers it was in the midst of firing, offering them an opportunity to “contribute as part of our non-paid blogger system.”
Today, sources said that exec–Moviefone Editor-in-Chief Patricia Chui–was fired by the company, which is in the midst of drastically rejiggering its stable of writers.
Kara Swisher in News on March 29, 2011 at 8:35 am PT
Yes, it is perverse, but I really want to come in dead last in Time magazine’s “140 Best Twitter Feeds.”
Why? Well, there’s no way I am getting near the top with the likes of Sarah Palin and Lady Gaga in the same list, so I felt the 140th–
get it?–slot on a Twitter poll is the next best thing to aim for.