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cache hit 500:single/related:ee9a377d23910d5c96a7168043ad3e87 empty On the Adwords Google+ page, Google just announced a timeline for banishing Flash from its advertising network, announcing that “Google Display Network and DoubleClick Digital Marketing are now going 100% HTML5.” Starting on June 30, 2016, Google will no longer accept new Flash display ads from advertisers. On January 2, 2017, even old Flash ads…
Feb. 2, 2016 3:35 p.m. ET On the morning of Jan. 29, 2014, “hyperlocal” online media service Patch employed nearly 540 people. The following day, just 98 remained. Turnaround specialist Hale Global had purchased a majority stake in Patch from AOL, and initiated what it called a “hard reset,” which included hundreds of layoffs.The plan…
Messaging app Line has been having a growth spurt. Carla Zanoni, executive emerging media editor at The Wall Street Journal, claims it has been the Journal’s fastest-growing social channel, reaching over 2 million followers since it launched on the Japanese app 15 months ago. “I’m not seeing that kind of growth anywhere else, period,” she told…
In January, following a year of stalled growth and financial disappointment, Twitter shed nearly half of its core leadership. Three days later, Adam Bain, the company’s (surviving!) Chief Operating Officer, posted this complaint: “Code for Twitter” https://t.co/pZdbJNx67J — adam bain (@adambain) January 28, 2016 The linked tweet: Wherein Facebook editorializes the Kanye Wiz ordeal as…
Over the past several years, there’s been a significant increase in the number of people using ad-blocking software in their web browser. We have certainly seen a growth in those numbers here at WIRED, where we do all we can to write vital stories for an audience that’s passionate about the ongoing adventure of our…
Start Article Post Content Just imagine what a Michael Bloomberg presidency could mean to a people tired of politics, yearning for leadership and hopeful for a better tomorrow. And by that I mean the employees of Bloomberg Media, not the United States of America. While New York City’s former mayor had jaws dropping Saturday when…
The closing of Grantland, ESPN’s sports and culture site, has been the subject of a tremendous amount of coverage and speculation since it was announced Oct. 30. The affection many had for the site resulted in a predictable outpouring of anger from the Web site’s readers, not to mention a number of fond farewells from…
The Intercept disclosed today that a former reporter for the national-security focused website fabricated quotes and invented sources for a number of stories published last year. According to a post published on Tuesday afternoon by editor-in-chief Betsy Reed, that reporter, Juan Thompson, went so far as to register fake email addresses, including one in Reed’s…
The Intercept recently discovered a pattern of deception in the actions of a staff member. The employee, Juan Thompson, was a staff reporter from November 2014 until last month. Thompson fabricated several quotes in his stories and created fake email accounts that he used to impersonate people, one of which was a Gmail account in my name. An…
If you want to make a YouTube video of someone reacting to something, you’ll have to go through the Fine Bros. Variety reports that Rafi and Benny Fine, who’ve built a YouTube empire on interviewing kids, teens, and old folks about various pop-cultural phenomena, have set up a new venture called React World….