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Evan Spiegel has a new deal for “Discover” publishers: We pay you up front, and we keep all the ad money. Snapchat says it’s done sharing with media companies. The red-hot messaging app wants to make a major change in the way it works with companies that supply it with content for its “Discover” section….
It was a Wednesday night in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and 40 people—mostly millennials—sat cross-legged on a cramped living room, drinking craft beers and taking off their jackets to reveal the flannels underneath. Around 8pm, the introductions and recommendations for farmer’s markets died down, as Sam Bodkin stood to announce the night’s entertainment: two violinists, one cellist,…
In February, I subscribed to all the presidential candidates’ email lists. Since then, I’ve gotten over 1,000 requests for money. Today is the 17th of October, and so far, this month, I’ve heard from Hillary Clinton’s campaign 32 times and Donald Trump’s 53 times. (Carly Fiorina chimed in once in support of Trump, too.) Sometimes…
If you are among the 73% of American adults who don’t log in to Twitter at least once a month, you can be forgiven for viewing it primarily as a place where presidential candidates launch broadsides and celebrities embarrass themselves. Twitter Inc.’s long struggle to define itself goes hand in hand with its recent inability to grow…
Photo by Sasquatch I Diversity and inclusion are hard, especially in tech. Doing them right means agreeing on values, setting standards, calling out bad behavior, and sometimes firing people. At Project Include, we call it getting comfortable being uncomfortable with the hard work of reshaping a homogeneous industry. Today, we struggle to rationalize Peter Thiel’s power…
How to Illegally Sway an Election Using “Sponsored Content” Bernie Sanders rallied tens of millions of voters by decrying the influence of corporate dollars in U.S. politics. But that’s not stopping big corporate donors from using his writing as part of illegal campaign advertisements. That’s thanks, in no small part, to the failure of the…
Fuck You Startup World That’s right, I said it. Fuck your startup scene with your 30 minute morning routines of reading TechCrunch, TNW, Wired, Gizmodo, Mashable, The Verge and ProductHunt- all so you don’t feel ‘left out’. Fuck your weird fucking conversations, things like “OMG did you see Snapchat’s new feature? OMG Instagram is totally copying Snapchat?…
Venture capitalists Joe Lonsdale and Brian Koo set out to conquer Asia and claim a prize that has eluded the American tech elite for decades. Now, they’ll be lucky to open a Korean restaurant in Palo Alto. Posted on October 11, 2016, at 6:04 p.m. William Alden BuzzFeed News Reporter Brian Koo often compared his business partnership…
Start Article Post Content Discovery Communications, in a significant consolidation in the digital media sector, is investing $100 million into a new digital media holding company that will merge Thrillist Media Group, NowThis Media, The Dodo and Discovery’s digital network Seeker and its SourceFed Studios. The new company, Group Nine Media, will be headed by Ben Lerer…
Your Post Has Been Launched! Fabulous! Don’t forget to share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook. The row is said to be over the fact that Unilever attempted to increase its wholesale prices, saying it faces higher costs due to the recent fall in sterling following Britain’s vote to leave the EU. Unilever also…