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15 Women Championing The Media Revolution
Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 12:45pm | 2182Read More...The rapid decline of the newspaper business over the past couple of decades was a major hit to the media world, but there are new and powerful forms of media that have gained an immense amount of traction on the digital frontier. Websites like Buzzfeed and Gawker are embracing wit, snark and...
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Facebook To Host News Directly On Its Site?
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 8:16am | 228Read More...Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) has been "quietly" holding talks with at least half a dozen media companies about hosting their content directly on Facebook's platform than force users to click on an external link to access the content, the New York Times reported on Monday night. Facebook is in a...
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Report: New Apple TV May Be Coming In June
Friday, March 20, 2015 - 5:24pm | 235Read More...Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may introduce a new Apple TV device in June, according to sources speaking to BuzzFeed. According to the report, the new Apple TV will be significantly overhauled and "undergird Apple's vision of what the TV viewing experience should be, and to raise the table...
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Twitter Trying To Tighten Up Security On 'Revenge Porn,' Offensive Tweets
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 8:37am | 356Read More...Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) has updated its rules in an effort to combat uploading non-consensual photographs of nudity or sexual acts, BuzzFeed has reported. The official changes read as follows: "Private information: You may not publish or post other people's private and confidential...
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Apple's Tim Cook And 5 Other Notable LGBT CEOs
Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 11:45am | 1045Read More...In light of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook’s "proud to be gay" declaration Thursday, a look at other LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) CEOs might be in order. Cook said that being gay has provided him with deeper understanding of what it is like to be a...
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'Gotham' To Hit Netflix
Friday, September 5, 2014 - 2:40pm | 311Read More...The folks on CNBC's Squawk Alley recently reported Netflix's deal to stream "Gotham" after it airs its first season on Twenty-First Century Fox Inc's (NASDAQ: FOX) Fox network. “Pretty unique because Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is buying rights to air a series that...
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10 New Buzzwords And The Companies That Inspired Them
Sunday, August 24, 2014 - 6:58pm | 1167Read More...Britain's Oxford University Press is adding a bunch of words to its online Oxford Dictionaries. Many of the words -- such as amazeballs ("extremely good or impressive") and neckbeard ("a growth of hair on a man's neck") -- sound like the names of rock bands. Side...
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BuzzFeed Lands Big Investment From Andreessen Horowitz
Monday, August 11, 2014 - 2:37pm | 131Read More...BuzzFeed, the online content sharing site, received a $50 million dollar investment from one of the biggest VC firms, Andreessen Horowitz, according to a report in the New York Times. BuzzFeed presently gets about 150 million viewers per month, with about 75 percent of the traffic coming via...
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Eric Lefkofsky, Groupon CEO, Defends Move Into eCommerce
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 4:31pm | 527Read More...Eric Lefkofsky, Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) co-founder and CEO, appeared on CNBC's Squawk on the Street Friday to defend his company's transition into the mobile eCommerce space versus giants of that realm like Amazon seeming impossible to compete with. “Guidance for the first quarter's actually...
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Yahoo's $5 Billion Buyback Plan
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 2:20pm | 260Read More...Shares of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) were trading higher by more than three percent on Wednesday morning following the news announcement of the company's share buyback plan. The company announced on Tuesday that it will expand its share buyback authorization to $5 billion. Last quarter, the company...
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Capitol Building On Lockdown After Shots Fired Outside
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 2:41pm | 449Read More...UPDATE: The Capitol building is no longer on lockdown. See further updates at the end for more information. Original Story Reuters is reporting that that the Capitol building is on lockdown after shots were fired outside. No one is being allowed to enter or exit the building. Buzzfeed reporter Kate...
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BuzzFeed Business Breaks In With New Editorial Staff
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 11:07am | 321Read More...Peter Lauria, BuzzFeed Business Editor, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Wednesday to talk about his new position there and the site's expanding coverage focus. BuzzFeed creates content around current events for the purpose of being shared via social media, with the goal of driving the news cycle...
