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Medium, the digital publishing start-up led by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, is about to add the largest website yet to its growing portfolio. The liberal site ThinkProgress will shift over to the platform next month. “It’s really impossible for an independent publisher to develop and maintain their own publishing platform in this environment. Most of…
The recent shootings in Minnesota, Texas, and Louisiana are shocking and tragic. I can’t begin to imagine the pain and anger felt by the families of the victims. I know it has rippled across the country, and it has deeply affected us here at Airbnb. We believe in trying to make this world feel a…
Milo Yiannopoulos, aka Nero aka some real basic garbage in human form, got the boot from Twitter last night as a result of encouraging his racist and/or sexist and/or alt-right pals to go after actress Leslie Jones, who starred in the new Ghostbusters, aka the film sexist manboys wailed was ruining their childhood. Jones was…
Probably the most important fact when it comes to analyzing Unilever’s purchase of Dollar Shave Club is the $1 billion price: in the world of consumer packaged goods (CPG) it is shockingly low. After all, only eleven years ago Procter & Gamble (P&G) bought Gillette, the market leader in shaving, for a staggering $57 billion….
Twitter’s decision to permanently ban conservative pundit and Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos has prompted a debate about free speech on Twitter under the hashtag #FreeMilo. Yiannopoulos, who tweeted under the handle @Nero, was suspended after his particularly negative review of the film Ghostbusters led to many racist comments directed at actress and comedian Leslie…
Nelvin C. Cepeda/ZUMA Press/NewscomMilo Yiannopoulos, the Breitbart tech editor and Trump-loving alt-right superstar, has been permanently banned from Twitter following accusations that he directed his followers to send abusive comments toward actress Leslie Jones. But while Yiannopoulos certainly straddles the line between being a free speech provocateur and merely a serial violator of Twitter’s terms…
Twitter has permanently suspended the account of Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, a day after the infamous internet troll helped incite his followers to send a torrent of racist abuse to Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones. Twitter confirmed that Yiannopoulos would be kept off its service for good in the future, telling Recode and BuzzFeed that it would find…
Not much is known about the new Instagram algorithm, but whether you like it or not, it’s here to stay. We’re in a time of flux, where some users have it, some users don’t, and everyone is just trying to figure out how they can make the Instagram algorithm work for them. Here’s what we…
This is Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones. Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images On Monday, she began sharing some of the racist and misogynistic tweets people have lobbed her way in the wake of the movie’s release. View image on Twitter Follow Leslie Jones ✔@Lesdoggg I just don’t understand 7:30 PM – 18 Jul 2016 · Manhattan, NY, United States…
Yahoo said it earned 9 cents a share today in its second quarter, which was a miss of already weak expectations. Wall Street had expected Yahoo to earn 10 cents a share on $1.08 billion in the quarter, dow from 16 cents a year ago. Revenue was up, though, to $1.3 billion. Does anyone care?…