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CBS Interactive, Condé Nast, ESPN, Hearst and News Corp to anchor the cooperative of more than 25 magazine, TV, newspaper and native digital brands New York, NY—(September 26, 2016)—Digital Content Next (DCN), the only trade association exclusively dedicated to trusted, high-quality digital content brands, today announced the creation of a cooperative digital advertising marketplace, TrustX, designed to…
Although The Washington Post partners with Facebook Instant Articles and Google AMP, which help speed mobile load times, it’s also striking out on its own.Over a two-month period, a team of Post engineers cobbled together a proprietary tech solution called Zeus that sped mobile page-load times by 75%. Viewability improved by 20% in current tests…
John Gilmore, an American entrepreneur and civil libertarian, once famously quipped that “the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” This notion undoubtedly rings true for those who see national governments as the principal threats to free speech. However, events of the past week have convinced me that one of the fastest-growing…
To: Everyone From: Paul Farhi Subject: “The media.” Folks, I know a lot of you don’t like the people who work in my chosen profession, the news business. I’m aware you think we’re lazy and unfair (yes, I got your emails and tweets on this topic — a few thousand of them). Of course, I…
Enlarge this image Last Thursday, Donald Trump stated he believes President Obama was born in the United States after years of questioning his place of birth. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call,Inc. hide caption toggle caption Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call,Inc. Last Thursday, Donald Trump stated he believes President Obama was born in the United States after years…
Hey everyone — there have been questions about Chris Ziegler and his absence from The Verge in the past few weeks. I want to provide answers for those who have been worried about him. First, Chris accepted a position at Apple. We wish him well. Second, the circumstances of Chris’ departure from The Verge raised…
Photo: Georges Biard (Flickr) The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold broke the story today that Donald Trump used more than $250,000 from his charitable foundation to settle legal disputes for his for-profit businesses. In other news, Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt. Can you guess which story got more attention? . @Fahrenthold just dropped…
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,…
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…