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The Shifting Landscape Of TV
Friday, July 24, 2015 - 9:19am | 367Read More...Advertisers and broadcasters alike are scrambling to find their place in the quickly changing world of TV programming. Consumer preferences are rapidly shifting and the need for traditional cable providers has begun to taper off as more young people opt to cut the cord and use online viewing...
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Project Lightning: Twitter's New Platform For Curated, Live Events Content
Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 1:00pm | 321Read More...Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) will add event-based curated content to its platform later this year, according to a Buzzfeed report Thursday. Twitter shares, off 26 percent in the past three months, traded recently at $34.97, up $0.28. The feature, called Project Lightning, will offer users a...
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Rdio Fires Shot In Potential Price War For Music Streamers
Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 11:10am | 303Read More...Rdio is offering a cheaper version of its monthly streaming music subscription Wednesday, a couple of steps ahead of the pending launch of Apple Music. "We've all been flying airplanes that had business class only," Anthony Bay, Rdio's chief executive told Buzzfeed. "...
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Rumor: Apple To Launch New Version Of Its Media Player In June
Thursday, April 30, 2015 - 5:12pm | 273Read More...Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) might be on the verge of refreshing its Apple TV media player according to unconfirmed reports. The device's third generation was launched three years ago and has since remained largely unchanged. Apple will unveil an updated version of the device at its annual...
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Why Apple Might Skip 4K In The Next Apple TV
Monday, April 6, 2015 - 3:53pm | 327Read More...BuzzFeed News' John Paczkowski recently claimed that Apple TV, a product Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is rumored to be developing, won't be able to play 4k videos, but will be restricted to 1080p. Michael Andronico, associate editor at Tom's Guide, was on CNBC Monday to discuss why...
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15 Women Championing The Media Revolution
Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 12:45pm | 2182Read More...The rapid decline of the newspaper business over the past couple of decades was a major hit to the media world, but there are new and powerful forms of media that have gained an immense amount of traction on the digital frontier. Websites like Buzzfeed and Gawker are embracing wit, snark and...
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Facebook To Host News Directly On Its Site?
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 8:16am | 228Read More...Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) has been "quietly" holding talks with at least half a dozen media companies about hosting their content directly on Facebook's platform than force users to click on an external link to access the content, the New York Times reported on Monday night. Facebook is in a...
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Report: New Apple TV May Be Coming In June
Friday, March 20, 2015 - 5:24pm | 235Read More...Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may introduce a new Apple TV device in June, according to sources speaking to BuzzFeed. According to the report, the new Apple TV will be significantly overhauled and "undergird Apple's vision of what the TV viewing experience should be, and to raise the table...
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Twitter Trying To Tighten Up Security On 'Revenge Porn,' Offensive Tweets
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 8:37am | 356Read More...Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) has updated its rules in an effort to combat uploading non-consensual photographs of nudity or sexual acts, BuzzFeed has reported. The official changes read as follows: "Private information: You may not publish or post other people's private and confidential...
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Apple's Tim Cook And 5 Other Notable LGBT CEOs
Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 11:45am | 1045Read More...In light of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook’s "proud to be gay" declaration Thursday, a look at other LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) CEOs might be in order. Cook said that being gay has provided him with deeper understanding of what it is like to be a...
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'Gotham' To Hit Netflix
Friday, September 5, 2014 - 2:40pm | 311Read More...The folks on CNBC's Squawk Alley recently reported Netflix's deal to stream "Gotham" after it airs its first season on Twenty-First Century Fox Inc's (NASDAQ: FOX) Fox network. “Pretty unique because Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is buying rights to air a series that...
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10 New Buzzwords And The Companies That Inspired Them
Sunday, August 24, 2014 - 6:58pm | 1167Read More...Britain's Oxford University Press is adding a bunch of words to its online Oxford Dictionaries. Many of the words -- such as amazeballs ("extremely good or impressive") and neckbeard ("a growth of hair on a man's neck") -- sound like the names of rock bands. Side...
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BuzzFeed Lands Big Investment From Andreessen Horowitz
Monday, August 11, 2014 - 2:37pm | 131Read More...BuzzFeed, the online content sharing site, received a $50 million dollar investment from one of the biggest VC firms, Andreessen Horowitz, according to a report in the New York Times. BuzzFeed presently gets about 150 million viewers per month, with about 75 percent of the traffic coming via...
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Eric Lefkofsky, Groupon CEO, Defends Move Into eCommerce
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 4:31pm | 527Read More...Eric Lefkofsky, Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) co-founder and CEO, appeared on CNBC's Squawk on the Street Friday to defend his company's transition into the mobile eCommerce space versus giants of that realm like Amazon seeming impossible to compete with. “Guidance for the first quarter's actually...
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Yahoo's $5 Billion Buyback Plan
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 2:20pm | 260Read More...Shares of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) were trading higher by more than three percent on Wednesday morning following the news announcement of the company's share buyback plan. The company announced on Tuesday that it will expand its share buyback authorization to $5 billion. Last quarter, the company...
