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NBCUniversal Poised to Make Big Investments in BuzzFeed and Vox Media - Recode
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Log In or Sign Up. NBCUniversal Poised to Make Big Investments in BuzzFeed and Vox Media. The deal will value BuzzFeed at $1.5 billion. Jul 30, 2015, 8:01a. Asa Mathat for Re/code. NBCUniversal is close to a deal to invest $250 million in BuzzFeed, in a transaction that will value the booming digital publisher at around $1.5 billion. Sources say Comcast’s TV and film unit has a handshake agreement with BuzzFeed, which raised $50 million last year at a $850 million valuation. Reported that NBCUniversal wa...
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Disney Buys Maker Studios, and YouTube Investors Cheer - Recode
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Log In or Sign Up. Disney Buys Maker Studios, and YouTube Investors Cheer. Mar 24, 2014, 3:36p. Now it’s a done deal: As we first reported two weeks ago. Disney has indeed bought Maker Studios, the YouTube network that generates 5.5 billion views a month, for $500 million. That number could swell up by another $450 million, depending on the way the property performs after the acquisition. So the total price could hit $950 million, but we won’t know for some time. Or keep the property at arm’s length?
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Re/code on TV: AOL Acquisition, Apple Watch and Hacking All the Devices - Recode
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Log In or Sign Up. Re/code on TV: AOL Acquisition, Apple Watch and Hacking All the Devices. A handful of Re/code staffers appeared on the tube this week. May 16, 2015, 2:30p. Verizon’s acquisition of AOL headlined a busy week in the tech world, and a handful of Re/coders were on television and radio this week to talk about the news. Managing Editor Ed Lee joined CNBC’s Squawk Alley on Tuesday to discuss Verizon’s $4.4 billion AOL acquisition. Twitter hasn’t solved its abuse problem. But it’s found a ...
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Twitter Has a Short-Term Periscope Problem. And a Long-Term Media Mess. - Recode
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Log In or Sign Up. Twitter Has a Short-Term Periscope Problem. And a Long-Term Media Mess. Twitter is a media company that says it's not a media company. That's fine until it isn't. May 5, 2015, 4:30a. Mark Damon / Las Vegas News Bureau. Here are three good questions to ask in the wake of this weekend, when Floyd Mayweather Jr. beat Manny Pacquiao and Twitter found itself irking some of the big media companies it wants to befriend:. And here are the tl;dr answers:. We want to work with media companies, a...
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Google Plays Nice With European Publishers, Dumps $163 Million Into Innovation Fund - Recode
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Log In or Sign Up. Google Plays Nice With European Publishers, Dumps $163 Million Into Innovation Fund. On Tuesday, Google will launch a fund and initiative to support digital journalism with eight European publishers. Apr 27, 2015, 6:12p. Shutterstock / Gil C. After being thwacked so many times in Europe, Google is taking a new tack: Extend an olive branch to the fourth estate. It’s a timely endeavor. On top of the protracted privacy battles. From two weeks ago. While the search king still drives eyebal...
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Uber's App Went Down in NYC This Morning (Lyft's Time to Shine) - Recode
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Log In or Sign Up. Uber's App Went Down in NYC This Morning (Lyft's Time to Shine). Even the short outage blips show Uber's dependency on smooth-running data centers. Aug 8, 2015, 2:27p. Uber, the ride-hailing app valued at $51 billion. Suffered an issue with its ride-hailing app in New York City on Saturday morning. Several users in the city noted on Twitter that firing up the app brought them a Service Unavailable page. Uber’s New York Twitter account confirmed a brief outage. And the Twitter Fail Whale.
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Tech Women Choose Possibility - Recode
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Log In or Sign Up. Tech Women Choose Possibility. An open letter of encouragement from an entrepreneurial woman in Silicon Valley. By Sukhinder Singh Cassidy. May 13, 2015, 10:00a. When I came to Silicon Valley 18 years ago, I stayed. The missing perspective on women in tech. The story of women tech entrepreneurs goes far beyond bias. First, the number of women starting tech companies is rising in absolute (if not yet relative) numbers. To illustrate what’s possible, we’ve highlighted a cross section...
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Tim Cook Slams New Book on Apple - Recode
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Log In or Sign Up. Tim Cook Slams New Book on Apple. This nonsense belongs with some of the other books I’ve read about Apple," Cook said in an email to CNBC. Mar 18, 2014, 2:30p. Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday offered a particularly harsh take on Haunted Empire, a new book that chronicles Apple in the post-Steve Jobs era. The book, written by former Wall Street Journal reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane, offers a critical assessment of how Apple has fared in the years since Jobs’s death. For Tim Cook to have s...
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Rise of the Platishers - Recode
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Log In or Sign Up. Rise of the Platishers. It's something in between a publisher and a platform. Feb 7, 2014, 5:00a. What should we call a publisher like Gawker that provides a tech platform on which. Not just its staff, can create content? What should we call a tech platform like Medium that has a team of editors and pays some contributors to create content? It’s something in between a publisher and a platform something that weaves together the strengths of both. First, some background. The first was an...
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Review: Physical Keyboards for the iPhone 6 - Recode
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Log In or Sign Up. Review: Physical Keyboards for the iPhone 6. If you like the iPhone but desperately miss the physical keyboard of the BlackBerry, the new Typo 2 could be just the ticket. Jan 6, 2015, 6:00a. When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in 2007, he publicly scorned tiny plastic phone keyboards, like those in the then-popular BlackBerry. Standing in front of a huge photo of the leading keyboard-endowed phones of the day, he bragged that Apple’s new smartphone would jettison physical keys. Obtai...
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