BuzzFeed Announces $20 Million in New Financing
> BuzzFeed, the social news Web site that was one of the media industry darlings of 2012, began the new year by announcing Thursday morning that it had raised nearly $20 million in new financing...
View ArticleReady For Huffington Post 2? Jonah Peretti Tells Us Why BuzzFeed Just Hired...
Today, BuzzFeed, a site know for viral/social content, shook up the media world by announcing it hired Ben Smith, a prolific reporter from Politico, which is known for serious political...
View ArticleThe Future of BuzzFeed Looks Like a Newsier Facebook News Feed
BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti doesn't mind if people are a little bit confused about the site's mix of LOL-friendly content and, more recently, political scooplets. As a content operation that caters...
View ArticleDailyCandy Follows Up On The Successful Launch of "DailyCandy...
Limited Edition Items Co-created by DailyCandy Editors and the Hottest Rising Design Stars, Including Warby Parker, Orly Genger by Jaclyn Mayer, Isa' s Restoratives, Tracey Tanner, & Forage Spring...
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The presence of Mr. Drexler and American Express highlights the growing popularity of Warby Parker, whose founders created the online glasses seller in their spare time at the Wharton School of the...
View ArticleBuzzfeed's Jonah Peretti: 'We're not like something that came before'
The social news site's creator and CEO on how it became a hit, meeting Murdoch – and why cat posts grab so much traffic Jonah Peretti: spreading the word about Buzzfeed. Photograph: Ramin...
View ArticleHoly Cow Buzzfeed Just Raised $20 Million
Jon Steinberg and Jonah Peretti Cute animals plus political news site Buzzfeed just raised a whopping $19.3 million for its fourth – "series D"– round of funding. NEA led the deal. Previous investors...
View Article20 Mothers Who Are Changing The World
We recently published our list of 50 Women Who Are Changing The World. Of the 50 women who made the list, 20 are mothers. These women are balancing impressive careers in politics, tech,...
View ArticleTop Modeling Agency Says 14 Is Not Too Young For The Runway
Fashion week isn't just about pretty dresses and champagne: it's also about long hours for the people who work it. And some of those workers are children. The Times is reporting on the Council of...
View ArticleFast Talk: How Warby Parker's Cofounders Disrupted The Eyewear Industry And...
Meet Neil Blumenthal, cofounder and co-CEO of Warby Parker. He tells Fast Company how a pact over a beer at the company's inception helped its founders preserve their friendship. Last year saw 500%...
View Article(Founder Stories) Warby Parker: “Why Should A Pair Of Glasses Cost...
Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Android Facebook IPO video Comment (Founder Stories) Warby Parker: “Why Should A Pair Of Glasses Cost More Than An iPhone?” Josh Zelman posted 36 mins ago Comments View...
View ArticleSignal Austin Conversation: Matt Mullenweg
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View ArticleThe United Nations of Entrepreneurs
Sadly, most of us would probably associate the United Nations less with innovation than with waste, inefficiency, and sclerotic procedures. How surprising, then, to see that the UN has turned to the...
View ArticleINSIDE BUZZFEED: The Story Of How Jonah Peretti Built The Web's Most Beloved...
BuzzFeed's office. The company has 175 employees. Jonah Peretti stretches out casually in his chair, sneaker over knee, in his downtown New York office. The office is encased in glass, a transparent...
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View ArticleNick Denton Is Crushing BuzzFeed And Jonah Peretti Right Now In Gawker's...
Ready for a good old fashion blog fight? Nick Denton is crushing BuzzFeed, and its cofounder Jonah Peretti, over at Gawker using its new commenting system. He says, "Jonah Peretti is one of the...
View ArticleFlash-Crash Story Looks More Like a Fairy Tale
Two years after the frightening spring day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost and regained about 600 points in a matter of minutes, we still don’t really know why. This is a problem, because...
View ArticleThe SEC Is Building A New $2.5 Million System To Track Market Data In Real...
One Algorithm Made Up 4% Of All Trading Last Week, And No One Knows Where It Came From Woah! Mysterious, Wild Swings In Dozens Of Stocks Coming From A Dark Pool There Was A Pattern To All Those...
View ArticleThe Dreaded 'Technology or Media' Question
When companies are asked to define themselves as either media or tech companies, often they don't have a definitive answer. Today, for example, The New York Times's Nick Bilton wondered "Is Twitter a...
View ArticleThis Video Of One Half-Second Of High Frequency Trading Is Insane, Terrifying
You have no idea just how bonkers high-frequency trading is making the stock market until you actually see it in action. A terrifying new video by the research firm Nanex offers just such an...
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