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Some of us on the Gawker Media editorial staff have decided to try to unionize. Here’s a brief explanation. I will say first of all that I’d prefer not to be writing this story yet, because the organizing effort is still in the early stages. It would be easier to have this conversation internally. But…
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled that lower courts in the state did not have jurisdiction over Yelp because the company was located in California and its data being sought was stored in that state. (Tim Boyle/Bloomberg) The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a judge did not have the authority to compel Yelp to reveal…
Slack announced yesterday that it raised $160 million at a $2.8 billion valuation. The company hasn’t spent a penny of the $120 million it raised just last October. When Slack raised that money, founder Stewart Butterfield said it was enough to last them 60 years. Besides creating a Scrooge McDuck style swimming pool, why exactly would a company take…
Start Article Post Content The highly anticipated trailer for “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” briefly leaked online on Thursday.Shot on a handheld camera or phone, the unauthorized video featured Portuguese subtitles–a sign it may have been from Brazil–and was quickly removed from YouTube. Warner Bros. was supposed to premiere the “Batman v Superman” footage…
The first Batman v Superman trailer arrived a few days before it was set to premiere at a special IMAX event on Monday. And what we get seems to be an all-fronts attack on Superman from the press right on to an eye-glowing, voice-growling Batman. Feel free to spend the next few days asking “Do…
Washington-based website and newsletter The Politico, like the CBS procedural dramas CSI and NCIS before it, is hoping to recapture the magic with a series of region-specific spin-offs. First, already extant The Politico-owned news site Capital New York will “rebrand” itself as The Politico New York, much like when Macy’s bought every regional department store…
Just last year, Ben Bernanke was still serving as the head of the Federal Reserve—the most powerful central banking position in the world. Now, he’s going to work for a hedge fund. Is it possible—just possible—that we have a systemic problem? The “revolving door” between powerful governmental (or quasi-governmental, in the case of central bankers)…
What the online juggernaut can learn from Time, USA Today,and MTV Adrienne LaFrance and Robinson Meyer April 15, 2015 Before Nyan Cat, before “Imma let you finish,” even before rickrolling, there was a small startup in New York dedicated to finding pre-viral content online. The first employees of BuzzFeed wrote about Borat, MySpace, and the “highly…
Bravo for companies that are starting to focus on innovation again! It’s about time. But even with this renewed attention to innovation, some managers keep projects resource-starved, in the belief that scarcity drives creative invention. Although ingenuity can sometimes spring up when means are scarce, managers beware: It is a dangerous miscalculation to think that…
Joan Jett. Christopher Polk/Getty Images hide caption itoggle caption Christopher Polk/Getty Images Joan Jett. Christopher Polk/Getty Images Of the 726 artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since the ceremony began in 1986, only 65 have been women. But on Saturday night in Cleveland, Joan Jett will be inducted along with The…