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close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Hamdi Ulukaya employs about 300 refugees from Africa and the Middle East at Chobani. Mr. Ulukaya started a foundation to help refugees. His advocacy has made him a focus of racist attacks. Credit Drew Nash/Times News By many measures, Chobani embodies the classic American immigrant success story. Its founder, Hamdi…
Ad blockers, which Apple first allowed on the iPhone in September, promise to conserve data and make websites load faster. But how much of your mobile data comes from advertising? We measured the mix of advertising and editorial on the mobile home pages of the top 50 news websites – including ours – and found…
Video has taken over social media, and now it’s coming for your lock screen. Today Mic is launching a revamped version of its MicCheck iPhone app (now called simply Mic) that primarily focuses on push alerts, taking advantage of the rich notification capabilities in iOS 10 to offer video, photos, and text alerts accessible on…
New Business Model. Same Racist Cab Drivers. /header Black riders in Seattle and Boston get longer wait times and more canceled rides.Adam Berry/Getty Images If you have a distinctively black-sounding name, you are more than twice as likely to have your Uber trip canceled than if you had a white-sounding name, a new study…
Instacart workers are earning a lot less money after changes to the company’s pay structure — changes CEO Apoorva Mehta told BuzzFeed News are necessary for the company’s continued growth, but that hundreds of vocal Instacart shoppers say are threatening their livelihoods. According to a Buzzfeed News analysis of 15 workers’ pay stubs, shifts that…
Blue Apron got approval to operate a food processing facility from the California Department of Public Health for the first time last month, despite having been packing and shipping boxes of fresh produce and raw fish, poultry, and meat in the state for over three years. The company’s Oct. 5 registration with the state health…
.entry-header They’re almost a web fixture: Those spammy-looking links at the end of news articles, with photos of former TV stars and headlines like “What she looks like now will amaze you!” But despite the fact that many readers—and news companies, for that matter—hate them, they’re probably not going away anytime soon. The reason for…
Print ad sales slip 13.3 percent as newspaper giant releases earnings hours after Gannett abandons takeover bid Brian Flood | November 1, 2016 @ 1:42 PM tronc Tronc unveiled its third-quarter 2016 earnings on Tuesday with revenues of $378 million, down 6.9 percent compared to $406 million in the third quarter of 2015. Only one analyst weighed in,…
Black riders in Seattle and Boston get longer wait times and more canceled rides.Adam Berry/Getty Images If you have a distinctively black-sounding name, you are more than twice as likely to have your Uber trip canceled than if you had a white-sounding name, a new study reports. For black men, the same study found,…
Donald Trump speaks at a rally Sunday in Las Vegas. (John Locher/AP) This post has been updated. Donald Trump’s hiring of pollster Tony Fabrizio in May was viewed as a sign that the real estate mogul was finally bringing seasoned operatives into his insurgent operation. But the Republican presidential nominee appears to have taken issue with…