NBCUniversal buys minority stake in BuzzFeed on heels of Vox deal
NBCUniversal has made good on its plan to buy a stake in BuzzFeed, spurring the New York-based digital media company's valuation to roughly $1.5 billion. According to a joint statement today from both...
View ArticleNBCUniversal chases a younger audience with BuzzFeed deal
NBCUniversal is big, rich and struggling to adjust to the Internet. BuzzFeed is an Internet sensation, small, scrappy and growing fast. The two hooked up Monday, when NBCUniversal, owned by Comcast...
View ArticleNBCUniversal Poised To Make Investment in Buzzfeed News
NBCUniversal is in talks to invest as much as $250 million in Buzzfeed News as part of the traditional media giant's efforts to appeal to millennials who get much of their news online -- rather than...
View ArticleNBCUniversal said to be making big investment in BuzzFeed, possibly Vox
NBCUniversal is believed to be in the final stages of investing $250 million in BuzzFeed Inc., possibly spiking the New York-based digital media company's valuation to around $1.5 billion. The...
View ArticleNBCUniversal in talks to invest up to $250 million in Buzzfeed News
NBCUniversal is in talks to invest as much as $250 million in Buzzfeed News as part of the traditional media giant’s efforts to appeal to millennials who get much of their news online – rather than...
View ArticleTop 10 Conservative Idiots #2-17: The Worst Day Since Yesterday Edition
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View Article'Shakedown': Advertisers 'Swindled' By Porn Traffic, Bots, And Adware As...
In the early 2000s, a group of enterprising masters of the universe implemented complicated and opaque trading strategies in order to make a market for electricity in California. This group dazzled...
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View ArticleComcast teeing up new services targeted at millennials
Comcast, which became a TV powerhouse by signing up Generation Xers, baby boomers and their parents, now is fighting for millennial eyeballs. The TV giant is investing in online media outlets like...
View ArticleInside Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel's Entertainment Empire
"We the millennials, bro!" Kanye West is 10 minutes and 43 seconds into his mesmerizingly elliptical sermon at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, and he’s showing no signs of relenting. MTV producers had...
View ArticleFlorida travel tips and deals
Check this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: New Bonaventure Resort & Spa summer special The new Summer Break Special at the Bonaventure Resort & Spa in Weston...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticlePropaganda
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society...
View ArticleNetwork-by-network scorecard: What's working and what's not
As another season nears the finish line, here's a cheat sheet for what's hot, what's not and how the major broadcast and cable nets stack up. ABC What's working: "Grey's Anatomy" and "The Bachelor,"...
View ArticleWar Goes Viral
Like most everything today, the campaign was launched with a hashtag. But instead of promoting a new album or a movie release, #AllEyesOnISIS announced the 2014 invasion of northern Iraq—a bloody...
View ArticleThe Evolution Of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs And The Bad Boy Family Through...
May 20 2016, 2:35 AM ET Share this article: The launch of VIBE was the definitive introduction of the power of Hip-Hop and culture to move the crowd. Before the Internet, before email, before social...
View ArticleMeet the top 100 business visionaries creating value for the world
At Business Insider, we believe capitalism can and should be a force for good. With this inaugural edition of Business Insider 100: The Creators, we are celebrating leaders who embody this spirit. Many...
View ArticleHow BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti took an instant messaging bot and turned it...
Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider Jonah Peretti is the CEO and founder of BuzzFeed, a digital media company that reaches hundreds of millions of readers around the world with its fun quizzes and videos,...
View ArticleA Viral Sex Crime Saga of Perverts, Pranksters, and Prosecutors
TIJUANA, Mexico—Just over a year ago, on International Women’s Day, as it happened, I was sexually assaulted in broad daylight in Mexico City. That day I officially became The Victim. What happened on...
View ArticleTop 10 Conservative Idiots #2-22: Argo FOAK Yourself Edition
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View ArticleBET Networks is Harnessing the Power of More to Deliver More Premium Original...
(Source: Viacom Inc) April 20, 2016 BET Networks Reimagines and Evolves Its Entire Digital Ecosystem BET Networks Delivers More African American Viewers Than Any Other Cable Network BET Networks is the...
View ArticleThe 24-Year Feud That Has Dogged Star Citizen
A version of this article originally appeared in Swedish, in issue 018 of LEVEL magazine (July 2016). This edited English version is published exclusively on Kotaku UK, with permission. This is part of...
View ArticleTop 10 Conservative Idiots #3-16: The Wrong Remains The Same Edition
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View ArticleTrumpâs Interests vs. Americaâs, Vancouver Edition
As the first (and, so far, only) Trump-branded property to open since the election, the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver has prompted significant scrutiny. When it opened just five days...
View ArticleWomen In Music 2016: The 100 Most Powerful Executives
From making records to protecting rights, negotiating contracts to discovering talent, the female executives included on Billboard’s 2016 Women in Music list represent the best of today’s dealmakers,...
View ArticleSpringfield of Dreams: 150 Best 'Simpsons' Episodes
When FXX announced a complete Simpsons marathon — as in airing all 552 episodes consecutively, from August 21st through Labor Day — there was much rejoicing among those of us who have spent nearly as...
View ArticleTop 10 Conservative Idiots #3-1: No Cause For Alarm Edition
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View ArticleOnline and On All Fronts
Summary Since 2012, the Russian authorities have intensified a crackdown on freedom of expression, selectively casting certain kinds of criticism of the government as threats to state security and...
View ArticleTrumpâs Interests vs. Americaâs, Secret Service Edition
President Donald Trump’s decision to retain ownership of his business while in office means that he can profit from government entities that are obligated to patronize his properties. For the Secret...
View ArticleFinal Results
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View ArticleTEGNA (TGNA) Q2 2017 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
TEGNA, Inc. (NYSE:TGNA) Q2 2017 Earnings Call August 01, 2017 10:00 am ET Executives Jeffrey Heinz - TEGNA, Inc. David T. Lougee - TEGNA, Inc. Victoria D. Harker - TEGNA, Inc. Analysts John Janedis -...
View ArticleDavid Foster Wallace on John McCain: 'The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub'
This story originally appeared in the April 13th, 2000 issue of Rolling Stone Prologue: Who Cares? Since you're reading Rolling Stone, the chances are you're an American between say 18 and 35, which...
View ArticleTrump’s Deadly Legacy: The First Six Months, Timeline of US Policy Changes,...
Note: With few exceptions, sources are from mainstream media. January 20, 2017 Trump Inauguration (Friday): – Trump signs first executive action canceling Obama’s FHA mortgage rate premium cuts...
View ArticleSusan Wojcicki Has Transformed YouTube—But She Isn’t Done Yet
Outside of the Jacob Javits Convention Center on New York’s far West Side—where YouTube is hosting the Brandcast, its annual presentation to advertisers—fans crush together behind barriers. Young and...
View ArticleTRUMP to rollback some of Obama’s Cuba policies -- FIRST IN PLAYBOOK:...
Driving the Day Good Saturday morning. THE BELMONT STAKES is 6:37 p.m. tonight on NBC. WE HEAR … PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is going to roll back some of Barack Obama’s changes to Cuba policy next week. He...
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