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Jerry Yang Is Back (And Investing More Than Ever)
If truth be told, Jerry Yang never really disappeared from the Silicon Valley scene, even though he did leave Yahoo rather suddenly just over a year ago — resigning from the board and all other...
View ArticleLook Out Google Fiber, $35-A-Month Gigabit Internet Comes to Vermont
Heads up Google Fiber: A rural Vermont telephone company might just have your $70 gigabit Internet offer beat. VTel’s Chief Executive Michel Guite says he’s made it a personal mission to upgrade the...
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LivingSocial Hack Update: Investigation Ongoing, While Emails Out to 50...
After a massive breach of its computer systems yesterday, LivingSocial has sent out emails to all of the 50 million customers impacted, a company spokesman said, and is now working with law...
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Video Shopping Startup Joyus Raises $11.5M in Second Round, Focuses on ROI of...
Joyus, the video shopping platform startup led by former top Google exec Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, said it had raised $11.5 million in a second round of funding, led by InterWest Partners and Time...
View ArticleESPN, Twitter Expand Collaboration
ESPN and Twitter Inc. are announcing a major expansion of their collaboration to post sports-related videos on the short-messaging service—part of a growing wave of tie-ups as TV networks and Twitter...
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Hearst Taps Demand Media's Bradford and Yucaipa's Johnson to "Redefine" the...
Media giant Hearst has hired two senior execs — Demand Media’s Joanne Bradford and former Los Angeles Times CEO Jeffrey Johnson — in a significant move to digitally turbocharge and jumpstart its...
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Yahoo's Bid for Hulu in $600M to $800M Range -- Even as It Preps Other Big...
According to numerous sources close to the situation, Yahoo has bid from $600 million to $800 million for the premium video site Hulu. The reason for the wide range is due to the fact that the Silicon...
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Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees -- 18 Percent of Staff -- and Shutter New York...
Zynga is laying off 18 percent of its workforce — which represents 520 employees — in a bid to reduce costs and more drastically restructure its troubled business toward mobile, according to sources...
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After Zynga Confirms 18 Percent Layoffs, It Lowers Guidance in All-In Mobile...
Zynga confirmed it was laying off 18 percent of its workforce — which represents 520 employees — in a bid to reduce costs, as it seeks to drastically restructure its troubled business. The move today...
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Bahat to Head $75 Million Bloomberg Beta Tech Fund
Bloomberg is launching Bloomberg Beta, a new $75 million venture capital tech fund that will be headed by former IGN head Roy Bahat. The newly minted VC is charged with investing in and also creating...
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Yahoo Offer to Buy Contact Startup Xobni Is at a Price of $30M to $40M
According to numerous sources close to the company, Yahoo is offering to pay $30 million to $40 million for the maker of address book apps and plugins. That’s below the more than $40 million raised by...
View ArticleHulu Bids Depend on TV-Show Rights
The big media companies that created Hulu endowed the online video provider with arguably its most valuable asset: Access to the current seasons of hit network-TV shows. Now, as an auction of the site...
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Yahoo Q2 Earnings Call: The Marissa and Ken Show, Now in Living Color
Yahoo is just starting the analyst call of its Q2 earnings, which were pretty lackluster. But CEO Marissa Mayer, who is awfully good at this kind of thing, has ginned up the excitement nonetheless,...
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Kevin Spacey Goes All House-of-Cards on Hollywood (Video)
In case you missed this most excellent keynote speech at the Edinburgh International Television Festival’s high-profile James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, actor Kevin Spacey gave what is perhaps the...
View ArticleCBS, Time Warner Reach Deal to End Blackout
A monthlong blackout of the CBS network on Time Warner Cable Inc. ended Monday, resolving one of the longest disputes between a pay-TV operator and a network in recent years. Time Warner Cable and CBS...
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AOL Turns Moviefone Over to BermanBraun for Reboot
After buying it in 1999 — at the height of the Web 1.0 bubble — for upwards of $500 million in stock, AOL has pretty much let Moviefone languish ever since. As others — from a myriad of entertainment...
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NAMG Confirms It Has Bought Scout From Fox Networks Group in Dude-Focused...
The North American Membership Group has confirmed a previous report by Business Insider that it had bought sports site Scout.com from the Fox Networks Group. The price of the deal was not disclosed,...
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Katie Couric Deal to Become Yahoo's "Global News Anchor" Set to Be Announced...
As AllThingsD had first reported in August that it was working on, Yahoo is poised to announce a deal with well-known television news star Katie Couric to do a high-profile online interview show on...
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I Shot the Serif -- Why Didn't Anyone Notice the Tumblr Logo Change?
While everyone was riveted to the change in Yahoo’s logo earlier this fall — mostly due to a monthlong Cecil B. DeMille rollout of the logos not used, followed by the I-made-it-myself grand unveiling...
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Grokker Gets $5.5 Million to Build Out Expert Video Network -- Here's Founder...
Last week, I talked to Lorna Borenstein, the former eBay and Yahoo exec, who has just launched a video network aimed at consumer interests using “experts,” called Grokker. She’s recently gotten about...
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Huawei Pulls Back on Effort to Crack U.S. Carrier Equipment Market
After spending years trying to persuade U.S. regulators to ease their restrictions, China’s Huawei is acknowledging that the political climate prevents it from building any sizable business selling...
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Weekend Reading -- The Latest Open Government Plan (Post-Edward Snowden)
On Friday, the Obama administration released another document outlining its efforts at making government more accessible to its citizens and to increase transparency. Titled “The Open Government...
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Kick the Can -- Yahoo Mail Is a Consumer Disaster, but Company's Response Is...
On Friday, November 8, Jeff Bonforte, the well-regarded techie who is now in charge of Yahoo Mail and all its communications products after the Silicon Valley Internet giant bought his startup Xobni,...
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CloudFlare Reveals $50 Million "Secret" Funding -- From One Year Ago
CloudFlare co-founders, left to right, Michelle Zatlyn, Lee Holloway and Matthew Prince CloudFlare, the Web security and performance company, said yesterday that it had raised $50 million in a Series C...
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You Say Goodbye and We Say Hello
This is the last day of the All Things Digital site, which began life in April of 2007 as a year-round extension of the D conference we launched in 2003. Since then, we have published nearly 40,000...
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