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Updated Feb. 25, 2015 4:02 p.m. ET Google Inc. nurtured YouTube into a cultural phenomenon, attracting more than one billion users each month. Still, YouTube hasn’t become a profitable business. The online-video unit posted revenue of about $4 billion in 2014, up from $3 billion a year earlier, according to two people familiar with its financials,…
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The car you rented from Turo for the day You quit your day job last week. The time was right to drop everything and pursue your passion. You aren’t meant to work for someone else. You’re too smart. The time is right for you to start a company. You floundered at a 500-person company for two…
Samir Arora, the cofounder and former CEO of Mode Media. Sean Gallup/Getty Images; Skye Gould/Business Insider From the winding freeway that links Silicon Valley with San Francisco, the giant Mode Media sign gracing the company’s headquarters was a hard-to-miss proclamation alerting passing drivers to an internet success story with a rich, $1 billion valuation. But…
Today, the median time it takes for an AMP page to load from Google Search is less than one second. Beyond just saving you time with fast loading pages, AMP will also save you data — AMP pages on Search use 10 times less data than the equivalent non-AMP page. To date we have over…
Guest column: Kemper Smith of the audience insights company Parse.ly says the company expects that given the contentious campaign and the limited opportunities for the candidates to meet face-to-face, one can expect the debates to generate web traffic peaks that rival those in the primary and conventions T/.dropcaphe nominees for President of the United States…
Donald Trump spent more than a quarter-million dollars from his charitable foundation to settle lawsuits that involved the billionaire’s for-profit businesses, according to interviews and a review of legal documents. Those cases, which together used $258,000 from Trump’s charity, were among four newly documented expenditures in which Trump may have violated laws against “self-dealing” —…
© KatarzynaBialasiewicz/Getty Images Jessica Piha gets to work whenever she wants and leaves whenever she wants—really. “There’s really no set schedule,” said Piha, the director of communications at home-improvement startup Porch, which lets its employees work flexible schedules. Piha likes to get in “super early” and leave at 3 p.m. for a workout…
40 Better Hours is a Poynter project dedicated to improving your workweek. This is the second day of the weeklong series. A lot of journalists come through Poynter’s doors, and we enjoy hearing their ideas (and, let’s face it, gripes) about to improve work. More often than not, two big complaints come up in those conversations:…
Ever since he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease three years ago, Kevin, an Airbnb host in San Francisco, says the extra income his family earns through the home-sharing company has helped ease the financial burden brought on by his medical care, he explains in a recent video ad. It’s helped “mitigate the stress,” adds his…