What Are Vine Stars Doing Now That Vine Is Dead? Freaking Out – Thrillist

A bout two years ago, while Vine was healthy — before the internet celebrities it germinated outgrew it and ultimately turned against it — three of the bigger names on the platform teamed up with some better-known YouTube personalities for a rap battle to determine which crew’s content reigned superior. Meant as a tongue-in-cheek, real-recognize-real…

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Google Helping Mobile Publishing? Some Publishers Are Not So Sure – The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO — Last month, Federico Viticci, who runs MacStories, a news site devoted to Apple and its products, made a change in how the site publishes articles for mobile gadgets. MacStories, he declared, would no longer support a Google-backed method for faster loading of mobile web pages, called AMP. Mr. Viticci said MacStories’s pages…

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Uber’s Loss Exceeds $800 Million in Third Quarter on $1.7 Billion in Net Revenue – Bloomberg

Even as Uber Technologies Inc. exited China, the company’s financial loss has remained eye-popping. In the first nine months of this year, the ride-hailing company lost significantly more than $2.2 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. In the third quarter, Uber lost more than $800 million, not including its Chinese operation. At…

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12-27-16 update: “Well this is new, 300×250 units from ad exchanges designed to look like Taboola/Outbrain units CC: @robleathern https://t.co/iS8GfhVDVT”

Well this is new, 300×250 units from ad exchanges designed to look like Taboola/Outbrain units CC: @robleathern 5 replies3 retweets15 likes Reply   5 Retweet   3 Like   15 View Tweet activity More Aram Zucker-Scharff ‏@Chronotope  Oct 27 So it turns out this image, which I’ve been seeing all over goes to a link that has…

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Trump-Supporting CEO Kicked Out Of Y Combinator Startup Incubator

On the Friday after the US presidential election, Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab.ai, a social network favored by conservatives, was kicked out of Y Combinator, the influential Silicon Valley startup accelerator, for violating its harassment policy. Torba, a fervent Trump supporter, called members of the Y Combinator community “cucks” and told them to “fuck off”…

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Shadows of the Empire: The Best Star Wars Spinoff Before Rogue One – Thrillist

IN LATE 1994, LUCASFILM HELD A SERIES OF TOP-SECRET MEETINGS with Star Warslicensees. On the agenda: how to invigorate a lucrative movie franchise that hadn’t released a movie for more than a decade. Out of those brainstorming sessions — attended by Bantam author Steve Perry and representatives from LucasArts, among others — emerged a 25-page outline for…

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