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Vox raises $200 million from NBCU – Fortune
Until recently, $300 million was the highest valuation that digital media companies aspired to. That’s around the price AOL paid for the Huffington Post. Subtract $100 million, and you’re in the ballpark of what NBC Universal paid for Daily Candy and what Turner paid for Bleacher Report. The latest class of digital media companies is…
Reddit: A Nine-Year Case Study in Absentee Management – Bloomberg Business
In 2006, Condé Nast, the New York-based publisher of Vogue and the New Yorker, among other magazines, bought a promising information-sharing and online-discussion startup called Reddit. At the time, social media was just taking off and big media conglomerates were scrambling for a piece of the action. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. had recently outfoxed Sumner…
Jam Preserves – The Jam Journal
Jam Preserves Hello! Matt & Han here with an important message about Jam. After nearly a year assessing many options, we’ve decided to stop operating This Is My Jam in its current form. Read on to learn about why the two of us have made this decision, but first: 1. Your jams are not going…
How to find your Uber passenger rating – Quartz
What it looks like in the app.(Uber) On the ride-hailing app Uber, passengers are asked to rate their drivers between one and five stars after each trip. Less well known is that drivers get to rate their passengers, too. The latter rating has been a source of much anxiety among Uber users. A loophole for…
Will Google’s Bid for More Ad-Buying Control Cause Marketers a Huge Mess? | Adweek
Google’s decision Thursday to shut down YouTube media buying on its programmatic network DoubleClick Ad Exchange (or AdX) signals the tech giant wants tighter control of its growing advertising ecosystem. But the attempt to create a so-called walled garden with video ads has some agency execs baffled. Under Google’s new rules, marketers won’t be able…
Twentysomething Men Now Have a Disorder Called ‘Pussy Affluenza’
According to a concerning trend piece on the current ‘dating apocalypse’ of twentysomethings, hookup culture has hit a critical mass of excess and indulgence, and the kids are not alright—they are, in fact, all fucked out with nobody to love. RIP going steady. The piece comes courtesy of Vanity Fair via journo Nancy Jo Sales,…
By Observing Humans in Slow Motion, Robots Learn to Collaborate with Us | MIT Technology Review
Roomba has a new friend. Researchers have developed a robot that can help clean the kitchen. In a paper presented at Robotics Science and Systems in Rome in July, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison describe how they taught a Kinova Mico robot arm to help people do the dishes. The key, apparently, is slowing…
At Silicon Valley Bank, risky tech start-ups are lucrative business – Los Angeles Times
Few banks are as close to the industries they serve as Silicon Valley Bank is to the technology world. An industry mainstay since the 1980s, the bank veers far from the course of conventional financial institutions. Part lender, part consultant, part cheerleader and part investor, Silicon Valley Bank has been a nursemaid to countless start-ups…
One downside to digital innovation: as formats die, we lose our past | Jess Zimmerman | Comment is free | The Guardian
If you wanted to pinpoint people of my exact age and level of youthful internet engagement, you might call us the Homestar Runner Generation. Like Millennials, we’ve led rich digital lives since we were teens; like Gen Xers, we’re too old to go to a party at 10pm on a weeknight. In any event, though,…